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I’ve always preferred to access email through my ISP’s webmail service, rather than through an email client like Outlook Express or Thunderbird. The main reason for this preference is convenience, in that I can access my email from any computer that has Internet access.

I also like to keep my messages organized, so over time I’ve created several webmail folders and distributed messages amongst them.

Now the time has come where I would like to backup my webmail to my local computer.

Although I trust that my email data is safer from hardware failure residing in my ISP’s data center, there’s always a chance that data corruption could occur or that my account could be accidentally deleted.

After some research, I discovered that there’s no easy solution to synchronizing webmail folders to your computer. The best solution I found is slightly tedious.

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After successfully installing the free Cobian backup software (version 9) on a friend’s computer, I was annoyingly greeted by a re-occurring Windows popup balloon every time Windows Vista would start. The popup balloon above the system tray would say:

“Windows has blocked some startup programs…”

Windows Vista’s UAC (User Account Control) was blocking cbInterface.exe, the user interface for Cobian, from starting automatically. This is because cbInterface.exe was recognized as needing to be run as an administrator. After doing some research it became apparent that for many people, the problem began after they upgraded to Vista SP2.

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Have you ever lost important documents or pictures because your computer crashed? Too many people take the chance of having their files stored in a single location. In this tutorial, you will learn how to use a program called Allway Sync to backup all your important documents and pictures to an external hard drive.

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