June 13, 2009
I want to create a second Gmail account to have a more professional-sounding email address than my cute personal handle, but how do I retain my Google calendar?
This is a pretty simple and painless exercise. Just create a new Gmail account. Once activated, go into your old (current) Gmail account and share your calendar with your new Gmail calendar. When you log back into your new Gmail account, and set up your calendar, you will see the old calendar and can continue to make new entries and edits to it. You can keep the old account active as there are currently no restrictions on having multiple Gmail accounts.
I recently inherited a computer from a neighbor who upgraded his system. It still has his personal data, email and programs in it. It also seems that there are some programs that have been installed that I don’t have disks for, i.e., Adobe Illustrator. I do have the system restore CDs and some other driver disks that came with the computer. What is your recommendation on cleaning this system up?
It helps tremendously that you have the system restore CDs and driver disks that came with the machine. Since the previous owner did not remove his data, it would be a courtesy to him for you to remove it. I would evaluate the programs already installed on the computer and try to determine if they were installed legally. He may tell you that they were installed using cracked software, in which case I would lean towards wiping (erasing) the system and using the restore CDs to get a clean system. An advantage of doing this is also having a system without his data, and applications that you can install that are licensed to you.
The typical exercise in using the restore CDs is to boot the system from the CD-ROM drive and following the directions on screen. If your system does not boot first from the CD-ROM drive, you may have to change the start-up order from the boot screen. When you fire up the PC, you will see options for F12 that will allow you to change the boot order for the computer. Select and re-order it so that the CD-ROM drive is first, followed by the hard drive.
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