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• How do you know if File History is really working?

  Posted on July 8th, 2019 at 01:05 Tracey Capen Comment on the AskWoody Lounge

  LANGALIST

  By Fred Langa

  For that matter, how do you know if any of your backups are working?

  The best proof is a nondestructive, no-overwrite, test-restore of one or more of your backed-up files. Here’s how, using Windows’ File History as the example.

  Plus: Full and partial fixes to a recurring and seemingly patternless boot failure.

  Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 16.25.0 (2019-07-08).

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• Freeware Spotlight — CipherShed

  Posted on July 8th, 2019 at 01:00 Tracey Capen Comment on the AskWoody Lounge

  Best Utilities

  By Deanna McElveen

  In a digital world that’s becoming increasingly less safe, data encryption is one of the better tools for keeping cyber thieves at bay.

  That’s especially true if you travel with a laptop or a flash drive — just imagine the damage you might incur if your device were lost or stolen. But keeping sensitive files, folders, and/or entire disks encrypted will make your files inaccessible to the device’s “new owner.”

  Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 16.25.0 (2019-07-08).

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