Great Backup Application and the woes of IM

Sarah emailed asking about a good backup program for XP. Mike Lin's Rapid Backup is a freeware program that is tried and true. This program has been recommended by various people on TechTV. It's very small, stable and easy to use. Even though his link is close to the bottom of my links list, his site is one of the first I listed. Mike is a student at MIT and will accept donations if you like his software. Take a look, many goodies here. StartUp Control Panel is a MUST for Windows 2000 machines.

Okay, I admit it, Yahoo Messenger is used on my machines. It's a quick easy way to relay data or info back and forth and the ever growing list stays busy. My 'on again/off again' relationship with the Yahoo people is due to their consistent whoring with spyware types. Whatever you do DON'T use their nasty toolbar that they push on you. If you have it remove it! TechTV blew the lid off their spyware scheme two months ago. And no matter how many times you tell them you don't want their other garbage they still download it to your machine. Don't believe me? If you are using Yahoo Messenger or Mail go look at Add/Remove Programs in the control panel. They'll be on the very bottom. While you're there remove this garbage. I am open to suggestions. Puh-lease don't start wif any of the AOhell dung (AIM, ICQ) and Microsoft's Messenger is just about as bad. Trillian has been used and just not worth the effort. I do have IRC capabilities at hand since the main browser is now Mozilla.

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