Your PC can crash at any time. Not a comforting thought I know, but one that should prompt us all to save our work as often as possible. So, for this end of the year post I will extol the virtues of saving regularly, and by extension, of backing up your files.
Firstly let’s deal with saving your files regularly: to do so, simply hold down the Ctrl key and press S.
If you wish to use a different filename each time you save, hold down the Alt key and press F then A. This will open up the ‘Save as…’ dialog box.
Now the backing up your files. Since we are fast approaching a new year, now would be a good time to back up all your essential files. There are a myriad of ways of doing this such as using USB flash drives
to backup your current projects, or using a DVD writer
to back up many of your files in one go.
Another option is to set up a webmail account with lots of storage capacity as…