Well said. I always have built my computers. Pre-built systems suffer from poor licensing and embedded codes on the disk to mach only the original CPU, and this re-activating should be a simple solution if you only replaced a MoBo.
I found a way to create back-ups and not waste media. External drives are fine, however I prefer to use a Samba server(M$ Networking) and use my favorite DVD burning utility, to create disk images. Next, I found Daemon Tools (Virtual Daemon Manager); a very nice tool to vitually mount the DVD image created. Security then becomes your resposibility unless you decide to encrypt private data prior to the image creation.
If you want to do incemental back-ups, then you need a bigger drive to slave your disk images on. It is up to you when you create physical media. Of course, this assumes you have more than one computer at home. Put that older computer to use as a storage system.
I have used AVG and probably was one of the few sites to recommend AVG along with several other mal-ware applications before the general computer community took note. After 5 years, and many installs on others systems, it runs nicely on all systems and is the least intrusive on your RAM. You can't go wrong removing McAfee and Norton AV - they control your system resources for you.
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Well said. I always have built my computers. Pre-built systems suffer from poor licensing and embedded codes on the disk to mach only the original CPU, and this re-activating should be a simple solution if you only replaced a MoBo.
I found a way to create back-ups and not waste media. External drives are fine, however I prefer to use a Samba server(M$ Networking) and use my favorite DVD burning utility, to create disk images. Next, I found Daemon Tools (Virtual Daemon Manager); a very nice tool to vitually mount the DVD image created. Security then becomes your resposibility unless you decide to encrypt private data prior to the image creation.
If you want to do incemental back-ups, then you need a bigger drive to slave your disk images on. It is up to you when you create physical media. Of course, this assumes you have more than one computer at home. Put that older computer to use as a storage system.
I have used AVG and probably was one of the few sites to recommend AVG along with several other mal-ware applications before the general computer community took note. After 5 years, and many installs on others systems, it runs nicely on all systems and is the least intrusive on your RAM. You can't go wrong removing McAfee and Norton AV - they control your system resources for you.