Dear Computer Lady, I need to move the programs and files from my old computer to my new computer. The old one is Windows 10 Home 64bit. The new one is Windows 10 Professional 64bit. I was wondering if you would know of a good migration program I could use to move all the info […]

Dear Computer Lady, I have a question about backing up my computer. I have seen recommendations for external hard drives and automatic backups to the Cloud and so forth. Every month, I copy the files I want to keep to a thumb drive. Is this sufficient? What else should I be doing? Thank you! Mike

Dear Computer Lady, I’ve learned so much from your site, its hard to thank you enough. I want to back up/save my business accounts/files without using the internet. I am using the jump drive right now, but Im thinking that you gave warning about them only opening so many times and then useless?? I use […]

Dear Computer Lady, I bought an external hard drive to use as a backup for my files. I was under the impression it saved them automatically. This doesn’t seem to be the case. How can I save files to the external drive? Save them twice, once to the computer and once to the drive? And […]

Dear Computer Lady, I’m 76 and use Windows 7, Home. I Would really LIKE to know what I will need to do for back up, As never have done this at all. DO I, have to buy disks for the back up? Thank you for the help and the newsletters, Joan

Dear Computer Lady, I have never backed up my computer; what method do you recommend on how to do this? And once done, what is a good way (If hard drive crashes) to reinstate what has been backed up? Also, how often do you recommend backing up ones hard drive? Thanks for all you do […]

Dear Computer Lady, I have a 32GB flash drive connected to my hard drive for automatic backups. Now I’m getting a message that my flash drive doesn’t have enough space. When a computer does automatic backups doesn’t the new replace the old info? Do I need to get a new and larger flash drive, erase […]

Dear Computer Lady, I am upgrading from a Windows 7 computer to a Windows 10 computer. What is the best way to copy programs and file to the new computer? Thanks, Jerry

Dear Computer Lady, Is there any way of automatically having the computer add a new backup and delete the oldest one simultaneously? Usually I get a warning my backup external drive is almost full, and I have to manually delete older files. Thanks, Sam

Dear Computer Lady, Do you like Acronis True Image better than Carbonite? Thanks! Liz