Applies to Windows NT, XP and Vista.
Regular daily, weekly and monthly backups should be implemented in any business or situation where you can’t afford to loose items stored on your PC and servers. In the past this could be quite a costly process with tape drives and complex backup software.
However, with the drop in price of hard drives believed to fall by at least a 1/3 every year, the cost of an external hard drive to backup your whole system should now seriously be considered in any business no matter how small. Used in conjunction with excellent open source or freeware backup software available, comprehensive backups can be configured quickly, easily and automatically to your external hard disk.
By Bish
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Published: 01/11/2008 – 13:17
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Posted in How To
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Since installing excellent, free antivirus program AVG Free 8.0 on both my laptop and my PC I have been more than happy with the experience. It appears to runn smoothly without a notceable performance hit and my machines haven’t become riddled with virus’s (touch wood).
However just recently the automatice update has been failing with the following message.
Invalid Update Control CTF File
After doing some research and exploring on my machines it appears as though the CTF files have become corrupt in some way and need to be deleted.
How to Fix
Disclaimer: Remember to backup everything before making any changes.
Since upgrading to Vista, around about the time it was released, I am proud to say that I am one of the few who has been very happy with the experience. I am a sucker for shiny things and like virtually all the features they have introduced – lets face it XP felt like an ancient OS when looking and using a Mac. Further everything that I can’t live without works fine in Vista or there is a Vista compatible version.
I am not sure whether there is an issue affecting all users of (the excellent) VideoLAN on Vista but it has definitely caused me problems. After installing VLC 0.8.6a on Vista the sound appeared to be fine but no picture was displayed. It seems that this is an issue with the output module in VLC but can be easily fixed by editing the settings or preferences.
- Go to ‘Settings’ -> ‘Preferences’
- Expand the ‘Video’ option and click on ‘Output Modules’
- Change the ‘Video Output Module’ from the drop down list to ‘DirectX Video Output’
Note to self. I really should read the change logs or new feature lists for applications properly when new versions come out.
Firefox is still the best browser out there, we all know that, but some of the little features and touches that these guys add are quite simply amazing.
Everyone using Firefox 2 should know that you can drag your tabs to re-organise where they are listed from left to right which is a powerful feature in itself. From an organisational point of view though I quite often work with an Active Collab tab first, my SideJob account open next and maybe my delicious account after with whatever I am reading thereafter. Occasionally I need to move these around if I start browsing something and then get down to work which and this feature is handy and a time saver.
