GOOGLE DRIVE: A Good backup

Google, as a firm of technology had changed the world around us with the release of GoogleDrive on April 24, 2012. It is an online platform that can be use for file sharing and backup, and as a synchronization service.

The greatest significant of any student of ICT or users of computer/mobile phone, is the ability to save files/documents for later use. Our files/documents are of utmost importance to us but as great as we valued this files,we often lost them when our PC/phone break down. In this post, you will discover how to Backup your files
What is a backup ?


A backup of a file or document mean a stored and/or reserved or kept copy of that file in a storage system, such as removable drives (flash, card readers, external hard disk). All the above mentioned removable drives are applicable to computer only.

Why Backup?
Every mobile phone or computer user should have a backup of some of their important documents. Why? At times, we may think all is well with our gadgets but it may break down and this may affect some vital documents on it. So, to be on a safer side, always backup your vital files to a third party system (by third party system, I meant to a device or system that can keep it safe).

 What to backup?
Backing up is an option, you may not be able to backup everything onboard but always backup your vital information such as pictures, music, files…. While backing, please note that you should consider very important files ONLY. Avoid backing up everything, back up Very Important Files (VIF) Only.

Where to backup?
In my earlier statement, I made mentioned of removable drives as storage devices for file backup. When we talk of reliability, removable devices might not be and besides, you may forget to take it with you for something urgent. So, for the purpose of great backup and good quality, we shall look into Google backup system I mentioned earlier (GoogleDrive)

Getting Started
To get started, input http://www.google.com/drive into the address bar of your browser. When you surf to the official page of GoogleDrive.
I. If it is on a mobile phone (Smartphone preferably), I recommended you to download the GoogleDrive app for easy access.
II. On PC, click on ‘Take me to Drive’


Note:- you will have to sign in to your gmail/google account. If you don’t have any google account. Then create one right away!

Once you are logged in, choose ‘Create’ from the options in the left side bar. You can create a folder and name it what you like.
To back up your files. Click on ‘Backup/Upload’, this will open the directories on your PC or Phone. Navigate to the file(s) you want to backup.

Click on it.
That’s it; all you have to do is waiting for the file to be uploaded.
The good news is that no matter where you are, you can get your backed up files again. Once you can connect to the GoogleDrive site.
Login your account, right-click (PC) or click (Phone) on the file.
Choose ‘Download’. This will download your file(s).

I hope you had found this useful.
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WINDOW 8 SOLUTIONS (How to Increase booting rate and adding Hibernate to the Power Button Options)

Hi and welcome to this two-in-one tutorial. Today, I want to share how you can boost the booting time of your Window 8 enabled Computer(s) and how to add Hibernate to the power options.

In a common sense, a new version of software (or operating system, rather) always have some sophisticated interfaces, designs and features. This features kept the users coming back for more of the software’s services. But beside this good attributes, there were some challenges that may come our way while working with the latest version of these so-called software, and this challenges - of which long booting rate is a major part – may render the whole good part of the software frustrating, and until you find the right information about the problem, you might lose hope on your PC.

 

Apart from Window 8.1 and the beta version of Window 9, Window 8 is the latest version of Window with great features. But at times, you might work on your PC, shut it down and the next time you want to power it on, all you see is a grayish screen that keeps you waiting for HOURS!

To solve this kind of problem, please note that to troubleshoot/solve computer related challenges, you must first understand the possible causes of the problems before attempting to solve it because “you will solve what you know and leave what you don’t know unsolved”. Window 8 has a feature that updates your PC automatically, though this may be good, sometimes it’s frustrating to wait for hours before you can log in on your Personal Computer. That meant Window Updates at times slows down your PC with its schedules. Even, it wouldn’t tell you when it is downloading the updates! Apart from slow booting, this might also consume your bandwidth/data.

So, a problem known is half solved. All we need to do is disable the Window Updates and whenever we want to update the PC, we can do it conveniently.

A. To disable the Window Updates,

1. Go to Control Panel (In My computer, click on control panel in the bar above)

 

 2. Choose System and Security

 



 












3. Click on Windows Update option of the window

  4. Choose Change settings

  









 5. From the Important Updates menu, choose ‘Check for updates, but let me choose whether to download and install them’. Click ‘OK’

 



B. The second of this tutorial is to add a Hibernate option to the Power options

1. Hover on the battery icon on the taskbar. Now right-click on it to choose ‘Power Options’

2. With the new window open, click on ‘Choose what closing the lid does’ in the Left Side bar of the window. That took us to another view.

3. On the main screen, click on ‘Change settings that are currently unavailable’. That made some options clickable. Check the box for Hibernate, Click on Save Changes to save the changes

Now, go and check your power options, you should find Hibernate there.

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