Recent content by botanica

Thanks, Medicted. I just downloaded Acronis and it comes with a free 30 day trial. Maybe I will be able to figure out how to use it. What is a rescue boot disk? Why do I need one? How do I create one? And how do I use one?

I am thinking about upgrading from Vista (came with the laptop I bought in 2009) to Windows 8. Is there a big difference between the two? What improvements can I expect to see?

This sounds like a good idea. Can you recommend software for doing this?

Thanks, kemical. I did visit the page and then downloaded Windows Live Photo Gallery. It automatically arranges my photos in the sidebar on the left by the folders they are in. Does anyone know if the sidebar can be made to arrange the photos by the tags that have been applied to them (like my...

I just bought a new 1TB hard drive for my laptop and would like to install Windows 8 on it. On the existing 250 MB hard drive, I now have thousands of photos organized by tags in Windows Photo Gallery which came with the Vista operating system. I know I won't lose any photos when I make the...