The Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate editions of Windows 7 include Backup and Restore Center. You can use this tool to automate backups and to create a com¬plete backup of a computer. Note that you must have appropriate permissions to back up and restore files on a computer.

Configuring Backups

Windows 7 can automatically create both personal data backups and system image backups. Personal data backups are used to periodically back up pictures, music, videos, e-mail, documents, and other types of important files. System image back¬ups are used to periodically back up the system drive, the boot drive, and other drives required for Windows to run. You can use personal data backups to restore your data. You use system image backups to restore a computer if it stops working.

The computer must be turned on at the scheduled run time for automated back¬ups to work. You cannot save backups to the system disk, the boot disk, or tape. You can save personal data backups to USB flash drives, CD/DVD drives, and network locations, regardless of whether they are formatted with FAT or NTFS. However, you can save system image backups only to internal drives, network locations, or USB flash drives formatted with NTFS. You can also save system image backups to CD/DVD drives.

By default, scheduled backups are created every Sunday at 7 P.M. In a workplace where computers are shut off over the weekend, you’ll want to change this setting.

To configure automated backups, follow these steps:

1. In Control Panel, under the System And Security heading, click the Back Up Your Computer link.
2. If you haven’t previously configured automated backups, click Set Up Backup. Otherwise, click Change Settings.
3. On the Select Where You Want To Save Your Backup page, use the options provided to specify a backup location on a local disk, a CD/DVD drive, a USB flash drive, or the network, and then click Next. With CD/DVD drives, if the backup doesn’t fit on one disc, you need to be available to insert discs when prompted.
4. On the What Do You Want To Back Up page, select one of the following and then click Next:
5. • Select Let Windows Choose if you want to back up all personal data in user profile folders and libraries and also create a system image.
   • Select Let Me Choose if you want to select personal and system data to back up.
6. If you selected Let Me Choose, use the options provided to select personal data to back up. You can expand the Data Files and Computer nodes and subnodes to select specific folders and libraries. By default, the Include A System Image check box is selected to ensure that system image backups are created (which is what you’ll usually want to do).After making your selections and clearing unwanted options, click Next.
7. On the Review Your Backup Settings page, click Change Schedule. Use the options provided to set the backup schedule, and then click OK. The How Often list lets you choose Daily, Weekly, or Monthly as the run schedule. If you choose a weekly or monthly run schedule, you need to set the day of the week or month to run by using the What Day list. Finally, the What Time list lets you set the time of day when automated backup should occur. Click OK.
8. If you are creating the initial backup and saving the backup schedule, click Save Settings And Run Backup to save your settings and then have Windows create the initial backup. If you’ve already created the initial backup for the computer, you’ll see the Save Settings And Exit option instead.

Back Up Manually

Once you’ve configured automated backups, you can use the settings to run a backup manually at any time. Simply open Backup And Restore, and then click Back Up Now. If you want to manually create a system image backup, follow these steps:

1. In Control Panel, under the System And Security heading, click the Back Up Your Computer link. In the left pane, click Create A System Image.
2. On the Where Do You Want To Save The Backup page, use the options provided to specify a backup location. Click Next.
3. On the Which Drives Do You Want To Include In The Backup page, the com¬puter’s system drive is selected by default. You cannot change this selection, but you can add other drives to the backup image by selecting the related check boxes. Click Next to continue.
4. Click Start Backup.

Press release writing or writing a article for ezine and getting your news published is not difficult.

I say this after fight for some years to get any of my press releases or ezine article published. I stumbled on the most crucial factor right after my first release was published in a UK internet magazine. I then decided to piece together all the advice, all the tips and tutorials I’ve read, into a single checklist, to make writing my next successful press release easier.

The ‘how to write a press release and ezine article that makes news’ checklist below is the result.

Like all checklists, it’s brief and to the point. So if you need to understand more about a particular concept I recommend that you visit the recommended how to write a press release links

Remember, good press releases or ezine article — i.e. news releases that get published — are great ways to get invaluable promotion for your business or website.

So learning how to write a press release, writing your press release and then publishing it, is definitely ‘worth it’.

How To Write A Press Release Checklist

Here are the basic steps of writing a press release:

1. Have a story to tell
2. Think like a journalist
3. Format the press release properly
4. Keep your press release short!
5. Promote your press release online

An explanation of these ‘make news with your press release’ steps follows.

1) Have A Story To Tell

You must have a story to tell, a hook, or an interesting angle. Whilst demand for news is great, the news must still be interesting.

So, find your story and develop it. Position your press release, somehow, to be different. Whilst you try and do this, make sure you think about the following:

• holiday and event tie-in articles
• politically and socially important editorial tie-in articles
• internet innovations and developments or unique products
• unusual events or unique personal accomplishments
• humour and wisdom, or fun and tragedy
• interpersonal relationships on difficult issues.

2) Think Like a Journalist

A ’story to tell’ must be told with the person looking to tell that story in mind; i.e. you must think like a journalist.

So what reasons would an editor want to publish your news? What benefits would their readers get? Is it relevant and timely?

Ideally, make the main benefit of your press release the headline. Or try and answer at least three of the classic five Ws — who, what, when, where and why — for your publicity angle in the headline.

If you do not come up with a compelling headline then the journalist (or editor) will simply not read any further. So that is the sole purpose of writing a press release headline: to get the attention of the journalist. Use words like YOU, NEW or HOW TO to achieve this.

Keep your press release simple. Always write for scanability and in a way that means it can be published (in a magazine, for example) with as few edits as possible.

Write short, punchy paragraphs and remember to answer these questions: “Who? Why? What? Where? When? & How?”

3) Format The Press Release Properly

Here is an example press release layout. Use the following as a guide.

[START]
<Title or Headline> – (a)

For immediate release

<Simple Contact>

<Sub-heading>

<Leading Paragraph> – (b)

<Main Paragraph(s)> – (c)

<Final Paragraph> – (d)

<Full contact details>
[END]

Notes:

• Offer a benefit, for example.
• What? Why is it needed? How will it help? Include quotes, too, if possible.
• Who is it aimed at? Who cares? Provide facts.
• Summarise the press release, or provide a call to action

Obviously, the words you use in your press release are of vital importance:

• The headline is the most important part of your press release and the opening sentence should continue on from the headline
• If possible, try and tell your story in the headline and leading paragraph
• Try and change passive words to active
• Use the words YOU
• Have no more than five bullet points — these should be selling points, ideally
• For each sentence you write, ask yourself “So what?”. And remove the sentence if you can’t think of a good answer
• Edit your copy ruthlessly, over and over again.

And, finally, make sure there are no attachments, no HTML, and no Word document files.

4) Keep Your Press Release Short!

With so much to consider when writing a press release it’s not surprising that most people make this common press release mistake: they write too much copy. It doesn’t matter how well you have written your press release, if it’s too long then it won’t get read. So keep your press release short. Remove words that do not need to be there. Again, edit ruthlessly.

Not convinced? Ask yourself these questions, then:

• How many of these press releases do you think editors get to read every day?
• How many long, badly-worded releases will they read before, eventually, they become instantly put off just by the length of a press release?
• And how much more likely do you think it is that an editor will read your SHORT, quick-to-read, press release?

Understand? Keep your press release short, simple as that!

5) Promote Your Press Release and Ezine Article Online

The best way to promote your press release online is to use an online press release service. Two highly regarded services are Free-Press-Release.com and PubArticles.com. As they states on their website:

“Free-Press-Release is the recognized leader in online news and press release distribution service for small and medium-sized businesses and corporate communications. Free-Press-Release.com pioneered Free Press Release Distribution and continues to set the standard for online news distribution.”

“Once you submit an article to PubArticles.com, you would have literally thousands of readers worldwide as your article is published around the globe. Many people visit PubArticles.com to gather free high quality articles and display them on their websites. Also, you can discuss with anyone who has the same interests as you!”

So you can either promote your press release for free, or they offer various paid-for services that guarantee a variety of levels of online exposure.

There is no point in writing a press release if you are not going to promote it, so this step is also vital.

So there you are: how to write a press release or ezine article that makes news, and another promotion tip that *you CAN* do, to promote your website or business. Just follow the checklist below, to make sure that your next press release or ezine article gets published:

• Have a story to tell
• Think like a journalist
• Format the press release or ezine article properly
• Keep your press release or ezine article short!
• Get writing that press release/ezine article now! Make news, today.

The Windows 7 driver store includes a small collection of drivers for legacy devices, mostly older printers, modems, scanners, infrared ports, PCMCIA controllers, and other oddball devices that don&rsquo;t use Plug and Play connections. As you might suspect, Windows will not automatically set up such devices, and you&rsquo;re rolling the dice if you find one of these old but still worthwhile devices and try to install an old driver.

But what if the device in question is valuable to you and can&rsquo;t be easily replaced by a newer, supported one? Then by all means give it a try. Download the most recent hardware drivers you can find (ideally, for Windows XP or Windows Server 2003), and then use the Add Hardware wizard to complete the hardware setup process. Follow these steps:

1. If you&rsquo;ve found a downloadable driver package or a CD that came with the device, look for a Setup program and run it. This option places the driver files on your hard disk and simplifies later installation steps.

2. Connect the new hardware to your computer. In the case of an internal device such as an add-in card, turn off the computer, add the device, and then restart.

3. Open Device Manager, select any item in the list of installed devices, and then click Add Legacy Hardware on the Action menu.

4. Click Next to skip past the Welcome screen. On the next wizard screen, choose how you want to select the device to be installed.

• For printers, network cards, modems, and other devices that can be detected mechanically, choose Search For And Install The Hardware Automatically (Recommended). After you click Next, the wizard quickly runs a detection module that searches for anything on its list of non&ndash;Plug and Play devices. If it finds the new device, it installs the driver automatically, and your work is finished. If the wizard doesn&rsquo;t find any new hardware, you&rsquo;ll be prompted to click Next and look manually.
• If you have a driver on a disc, skip the detection process. Choose Install The Hardware That I Manually Select From A List (Advanced) and click Next.

5. From the Common Hardware Types list, select a hardware category (or the inclusive Show All Devices category) and click Next.

6. From the master list of available drivers, select the device manufacturer and the correct model. Click Next to continue. Follow the prompts to complete the wizard.