Why don't people back up?

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I love Mary's comment!! I'm with her! I didn't know I would need to learn a whole other language to operate this blasted thing (which has quickly become a necessary evil)! There are so many terms I have yet to figure out and I have neither the time nor desire to learn either.

However, believe it or not, I just installed a new hard drive and it was surprisingly easy! I still had the Operating System CD that came with the computer, plus I had CD backups of my pictures and documents and the CDs from the programs I'd installed (family tree maker, quicken, etc.). I just updated everything from online sources and now I'm back in business -- I'm happy!

My best recommendation is just to copy My Documents to a CD (two different CDs, perhaps by two different programs, just in case a scratch happens. Forget about restoring programs and Windows, etc. They will only restore on the SAME computer if nothing else has gone wrong. Just backup docs and photos and forget about the rest. It's useless.

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Does anyone know how to disable Backup in Windows 2000 Pro? The reason I ask this is because I found that my desktop was repeatedly backing all my Word documents each time I opened a file. Even when I deleted the backup, a new one would instantly appear in its place. Eventually I managed to work round the problem by getting Backup to exclude all Word documents from the backup process... well, I hope this is the case. At any rate the problem appears to have disappeared for the time being at least. However, I would like to rid myself of the Backup program altogether - or at least disable it to the point whereby I feel I'm in charge of it rather than having it pulling all the strings in the background. Unfortunately MS's Help files fail to explain how this objective may be achieved and not being a PC technocrat I'm reluctant to play the sorcerer's apprentice here. On a related issue I have no objections to System Restore but I'd have plenty if Backup was surreptitiously (not to say pointlessly) filling my H/D with copies of files from other applications. Or do I have to laboriously exclude them too? Much better, it seems to me, is to shut the whole program down and let me back up my files manually, which is what I've been doing for some twelve years now. So if anyone can tell me how to put Backup back into its box, I'd be very grateful.

Regards, Graham Knott

PS. I apologise for the location of this comment/query of mine. It's just that I am unable to find anywhere more suitable to place it on this section of your website.

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