User guide

Clickfree Transformer User Guide Advanced topics

Advanced topics

WHAT IF THERE IS MORE THAN ONE USER ON MY COMPUTER?

This matters only if each user has a separate user login name for the computer. If every

user logs in with the same user name, all of their content is backed up and restored at

the same time regardless of who is logged in.

When Clickfree runs, it can only back up the content that you can access from your

Windows 2000,

Windows XP and Windows Vista maintain a separate Documents or My Documents

folder for each user name, Clickfree can back up only the corresponding content that

belong to the person who is logged in, unless that person logs in as Administrator.

Administrator

“Administrator” is a special login name for the user who can make system-wide changes

to the computer, has full control, and can access all of the files on the computer. Most

home users are automatically the Administrator of their computer. If you don’t know if

you are the Administrator, or how to log in as Administrator, you might need to talk to

the person who set up the computer for you. If no one set up your computer for you,

then by default, you are the Administrator. talk

WHAT IF I HAVE MORE THAN ONE COMPUTER?

Clickfree Transformer can back up as many computers as you like: you are limited only

by the amount of space on your external hard drive(s).

Clickfree creates a unique identifier for each computer that it is used with, regardless of

the computer’s name. This allows Clickfree to back up content for more than one

computer without the files getting mixed up with each other, even if all of the computers

have the same name.

You can change the name of a computer after backup to make it easier to remember

which computer is which.

You change a computer’s name from the Clickfree

Options screen.

OW IS BACKUP DIFFERENT WHEN I HAVE MORE THAN ONE COMPUTER?

It makes no difference at all - just plug the Transformer in to each computer to back it up.

Each time you back up a computer for the first time, its name is added to the drop down

list of computers that you see on the

Backup Summary, Restore Summary, and Options

screens.