Develop Good Computing Habits - Toshiba Satellite 200 Series User Manual

If the modem is listed and has and exclamation point (!) next to it
there may be a conflict with another device and that Windows 95
is unable to resolve the conflict. See the next section for sugges-
tions on solving the conflict.

Develop Good Computing Habits

Sometimes we're in such a hurry to use a computer that we fail to
adequately prepare for the inevitable problems that occur. This
section suggests some good habits to develop so you are prepared
should a problem occur.
Save your work often.
You can never predict when your computer will lock, forcing you
to close a program and lose unsaved changes. Many software pro-
grams build in an automatic backup, but you shouldn't rely solely
on this feature. Save your work!
On a regular basis, back up the information stored on your
hard disk.
Here are a few ways you can do this:
Copy files to disk in Windows 95, following the steps in "How
to Copy Something to a Diskette" on page 95 or "How to Back
Up Your Work" on page 96.
Connect a tape drive to the system and use specialized soft-
ware to copy everything on the hard disk to a tape.
Some people use a combination of these methods, backing up all
files to tape weekly and copying critical files to disk on a daily
basis.
If you've installed your own programs, you should back up your
programs as well as your data files. If something goes wrong that
requires you to format your hard disk and start over, reloading all
your programs and data files from a backup will save time.
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