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Backup and Delete

By Fei on February 1, 2010

By Lincoln Spector
February 1, 2010

SAN FRANCISCO – Dwight Schoffer wants to know the downside of backing his data to a flash drive, then deleting it from his hard drive.

Making one backup, then deleting the file from your hard drive, is no better than not backing up at all. You’re still violating Spector’s First Law of Computing: Never have only one copy of anything.

And if your only copy is on a flash drive, that’s especially dangerous. Those things can easily get lost or stolen.

If you’re going to keep files on a flash drive and not also put them on your hard drive, you need to back up the flash drive. Copy the files to another flash drive every day or so, or burn them to a DVD.

Delete a Registry Key

By Fei on November 11, 2009

By Lincoln Spector
November 12, 2009

SAN FRANCISCO – Buffalo asked the Answer Line forum how to delete a Registry key
I’ve got a strong temptation not to answer this question. Deleting a Registry key is inherently dangerous. You don’t know what you can mess up.

If you fear that something wrong in your Registry is hurting your system, you’re better off using a Registry cleaner than going in and manually deleting a key. See How Best Do I Clean My Registry? for details.
But if you feel that you absolutely must go in manually, back up your Registry, first. See Back Up Your Registry for details.
Once it’s backed up, click Start, then Run, type regedit and press ENTER.

You’ll have to find the key you want in the Registry Editor. If you know its address, you can navigate the left pane as if it was Windows Explorer, looking for the folder within the folder. Or you can search by pressing F3 and entering a keyword.

Once you find the undesirable key in the right pane, right-click it, select Delete, then take a deep breath and select Yes.