April 2016 – Comp-U-Train computer training

Mirroring vs Imaging a Hard Disk Drive

20th April 2016 Jackie & Andy

A customer recently asked me if they should use the spare HDD (Hard Disk Drive) in their computer to create an image of their C drive periodically, or should they mirror the C drive partition. Note that the OS (Operating System) Boot and System files must be on the same partition! Mirroring the HDD (Hard Disk Drive) is also known as RAID 1. “RAID” stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive (Independent) Disks. This is a way to provide redundancy of your…

How to move favorites in Microsoft Edge

20th April 2016 Jackie & Andy

In the new Microsoft Edge web browser that comes with Windows 10, there is no easy to move your favorite links from one folder to another. In Internet Explorer you could choose to organise your favourites and then simply drag and drop the links between folders. In Microsoft Edge, if you want to move a favorite link to another folder, you single left click on the favorite in question (your browser will be taken to that favourite link but ignore that) and then single left…