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Telecommuting

If you have kids, a second job, or other commitments, you know how working past 5 complicates your life. Unlike the 4 day work week, Telecommuting allows you to maintain a normal work schedule with the advantages of fuel savings.

Archive for the ‘Vista’ Category

Optimize Vista Laptop Hard Drive

Written by TeleCommuter on May 30th, 2008 | Filed under: How To, Vista

The following steps optimize your Laptop Hard Drive for faster response times by enabling Advanced Performance Write Caching. Laptops have a Battery for backup, so this is only recommended for Desktop PC’s with Backup Power. Because your login session will be cached, power loss during the session “could” result in the loss of data.

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Sync your Files to a Flash Drive

Written by TeleCommuter on Feb 1st, 2008 | Filed under: How To, Telecommuting, Vista

Flash Drives are a convenient, cheap way to backup your data, provided you remember to do it. An application called SyncBack can automate the backups and perform a synchronization of your files and folders. SyncBack has many options including:

  • Backup and Restore. You can drill down directories to include or exclude folders and files, and perform incremental backups by date. Backups can be run on a schedule, or manually.
  • Synchronization of files and folders between devices and computers. You can also drill down directories to include or exclude folders and files.
  • Password protect, FTP, ZIP and email with both options.
  • Write to Flash, Disk, and CD/DVD Media

Flash and External Drives can be purchased at the Store.


Vista Anti-Virus Options

Written by TeleCommuter on Jul 10th, 2007 | Filed under: Reviews, Vista

Most new Vista PC’s and Laptops come with a suite of applications and software that is a free trial, and when the trial is over, the applications shut down. In many cases, your Anti-Virus is one of them.

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