Restore Deleted Files in Windows 7

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October tech news and tips from On-Site Technical Solutions

It's October already! Are you receiving our free email newsletters?  Below is our October monthly tech news and tips edition. If you'd like to sign up, send an email to info@on-siteoc.com with the subject "newsletter." 

Monthly tech news + tips from On-Site Technical Solutions, Inc.

Turn on Google’s 2-Factor Authentication ASAP! It’s the best way to protect yourself from hackers and other mischief-makers. Continue reading » Beyond Bombs: The Military's Cool New Tech  What’s cooking at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)? Continue reading » Gaining Control of Your Email is Simpler Than You Think How many email messages clutter your inbox? Do you have hundreds, maybe thousands, of email messages stored in your inbox? Don't feel bad. You're far from alone. Most of us receive a steady stream of email messages each day. We open and respond to the most important of these. However, we often leave the less pressing email messages for a latter day. That latter day might never come. That's the problem. Fortunately, Rene Shimada Siegel, writing for Inc. magazine, tackles this problem in a recent feature. She provides tips for people struggling to gain control of their email messages. Follow some of Siegel's better tips, and your cluttered inbox might soon be a thing of the past. Don't be afraid of the “Delete” button Siegel writes that the biggest factor leading to cluttered inboxes is our growing resistance to delete old messages. We hang onto email messages for months, even if we haven't actually looked at these particular messages for just as long. It's long hoarding boxes after you move to a new home. If you haven't opened a box for a year, you probably don't need what's inside. Take the same approach with your email messages. Go on a deleting purge every few weeks. Get rid of those email messages that you haven't looked at for weeks or months. You'll feel better after you do. News aggregators are your friend How much of the clutter in your inbox is made up of newsletters and news digests? Probably a lot. Fortunately, you can read most of these through news aggregators. Siegel recommends such aggregators as Google Reader and Flipboard. Once you start accessing these newsletters and digests through aggregators, you can take steps to make sure that these same digests aren't also sent to your email inbox. Doing so will greatly reduce the clutter in your inbox. Mobile cutting works Think of how much time you spend every day waiting for a colleague to show up at lunch, sitting in waiting rooms or sitting on public transportation. Why not take this time to go on an inbox-deletion spree with your iPhone, iPad, or other mobile devices? Those minutes that you spend waiting for something else to happen can add up during a day. If you spend them using your mobile device to delete old messages, you'll take a big step toward un-cluttering that clogged inbox. Of course, some people don't mind having a cluttered inbox, but if you're one of those consumers who can't stand it when their inboxes crack the thousand-message mark, take action today: There's no reason to be plagued by a cluttered inbox. Read more at Inc. magazine. Staying Focused While Browsing the Web Continue reading » Designing the Future of IT Continue reading » Getting The Most Out Of Windows 8 Continue reading »

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Still Using Microsoft Windows XP? 2014 Is Closing In!

Microsoft will be supporting the various iterations of Windows XP, its Flagship 10+ year-old operating system until August in 2014. That's more than two years away, a lifetime in the technology world. But for businesses still using Win XP, an exit strategy is probably in order!

For our clients we simply replace aging XP computers with Win 7. We never did purchase or install a Windows Vista computer. We inherited a few, but migrated them to Win 7 as quick as we could. 

The transition to Win 7 is very straightforward and simple - just replace the computer with the new operating system. If you've kept XP and bypassed both Vista and Win 7, you will probably end up using Win 8, which will be a bigger transition than Win 7 for your employees. Of course, by that time you may not need Windows.  

Two years from now our clients will be even less dependent on Microsoft as they continue to move to cloud applications and other devices than the desktop and laptop. Chromebooks and tablets will play a significant role in that process. 

I was reminded of this because of this artile in EWeek. Windows XP had a great run, but the age of Microsoft dominance is over. 

Microsoft Windows XP: 10 Years Old but Still Matters - Enterprise Applications - News & Reviews - eWeek.com

Here is a snippet from the Windows support page showing the OS support dates. Note that Service Pack support for the products has already ended. 

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