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Every winter, I tell myself I am going to buy one of those remote car starters — you know, those things where I can stay toasty warm in the confines of my own home while de-icing my car. But then summer comes, there is no more need, and I forget.
A fluke ice storm recently had me back to kicking myself, and I grabbed my trusty lock de-icer and scraper and headed outside.
After finally getting into my car (20 minutes of X-ACTO knife-style cutting on the edges of the driver’s side door), I started it up. Then I had to go out into the cold and spend another 15 minutes scraping ice off the windshield. Talk about your losing productivity. If I just had one of those starters, I could be unfrozen AND get other things done while it happened.
How much does this remind you of the virtual scraping we all end up doing with our computers at work? I find there is always junk causing my computer to freeze and lock-up. Most days it seems unavoidable and certainly kills my ability to be productive, and even some days lays ruin to my almost completed work.
How many times have you found yourself editing a Word or Excel file for an hour or more and realize, just as the computer freezes, that you haven’t saved any of your changes yet?
So I polled a few of our support and productivity specialists and found that almost 90% of the time they receive a call where someone’s computer locked up, the person has NOT saved the work and what they have done can be recovered less than only 30% of the time.
Wow! Picture large and small companies that lose data that will take longer to redo than it originally did to create — all just because most people (myself included, just ask my wife about my son’s 2nd birthday party pictures) are not aware of some basic built-in features and functions of software applications they use daily.
Well, this week our tips are focused around the topic of AutoRecover and what to do if it doesn’t work. I will also include a few other tips in separate entries on proactive measures you can take so you won’t be left out in the cold.
Here are the links for this week’s episode:
Turning on the AutoRecover Feature in
Enabling the AutoRecover Feature in Visio
What to Do When Your Computer Freezes
What to Try When AutoRecover Fails
Recover Information in a Frozen or Damaged File
and Understanding the Reasons to Reset Your Device
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Until next time, remember to save frequently and don’t get left out in the cold the next time your computer freezes.
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Special thanks to Clayton and Fulrum for providing our theme music.
