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Did You Hear? Hanger & Associates has moved!

Yes, (almost) all of the boxes have been unpacked and we’re getting the new office straightened up! We moved our office to a location in Upper Chichester Township right off of Route 322 and the intersection of Cherry Tree Road. We will have used PCs and laptops for sale and will also be taking in PCs and laptops in for repair at our new location. We would love for you to come see our new place! Give us a call and we’ll take you on the grand tour!

Hanger & Associates, Inc. is now offering a new image backup service for your mission critical PCs.  This is a multi-step process.  The first step is to make a full image back up of your system to CD. This is an image or “picture?of your system at that point in time. In addition to the initial system image backup, we are suggesting that a minimum monthly data backup of your system be created. If your system should crash, i.e. hard drive crash, corrupted data, etc., we can then restore the image which would put your system back to the point in time of the initial system image backup and then we would restore the data from the last data backup. How does this differ from a regular backup? This will restore your hardware and software settings and any specialty programs that have been installed to your system, i.e. Reach, Bill Payers, Office Settings, any special use programs and settings, along with the directory structure.  Backups are necessary to have, but unlike DOS programs, just backing up the directory of a program is not complete enough to restore a program. You need the Windows registry with all the settings and the system.ini and win.ini files. An image will entail all of these necessary files and settings. Call us to discuss this process today.

Microsoft is continuously updating and patching its software. Some people find that disturbing, that they continue to find “holes and “errors?in their software, but unfortunately, it’s the nature of the beast! It is a little unsettling that you purchase software that they find problems with, but keep in mind the fact that they are checking for these problems on a continuous basis. They offer these fixes and patches at no additional charge, it’s part of your original purchase price of the software.  But, they don’t automatically send them to you. You must get them on your own. Let Hanger & Associates check out each of your PCs and make sure all of your updates are current. This can usually be done within an hour per PC with a fast internet connection and there are no visual changes to the way your system operates. It all sits behind the scenes and does the work.

But be careful! We have received emails from “Microsoft?telling us to download the attachment for critical MS updates. But what this email really is turns out to be a virus. If you were to open the attachment on the email, it would place a virus or worm on your system and I think we all know what a problem that can become. Wouldn’t your anti-virus catch this virus? Well probably, if a couple of criteria have been met. First, you must have your virus scan enabled to check your email. Secondly, you must have the most current files with the fix for that virus downloaded for your anti-virus software. Let Hanger & Associates check out your critical updates to ensure that you have all the patches Microsoft has available. And while we’re there, we can verify your anti-virus settings on those PCs. Anti-virus software will do you absolutely no good without being kept current.