Disaster can strike at any time, whether it’s computer failure, fire, or human error. For anyone doing computer work that involves creating new data — whether your work is writing, business and finance, or programming — backing up your files is critical. Even losing a day’s worth of writing or artwork can be devastating.
Keeping safe backups of all of your original data is important.
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You can tell Windows to use a default printer for all Windows applications. You may need to change this setting if you connect a new printer. Also, unfortunately, sometimes programs interfere with this setting and change it without verifying the change with the end user, requiring you to reset it.
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Dates and times are used in several places in Personal Knowbase. Most important is the Article Date which is (optionally) shown in the Article Window and Index Window’s Titles column.
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If you have a file or program that you access constantly, you may find it useful to have a shortcut to it right on your Windows desktop.
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Personal Knowbase, like most standard Windows applications, allows you to highlight multiple items in any list box.
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Recent versions of Windows (starting with Windows 7) don’t include distribution of the Windows Cardfile utility. Since Microsoft stopped support for Win XP, more and more people are looking for new ways to access their old Cardfile files.
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When you contact any software customer support about a problem with their program, you can often make it easier to pinpoint the problem if you send a screen shot.
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