These are a few of the most important things that all homeowners who experience a good old northern New England winter can do to make sure things are locked and loaded.
When I couldn't activate my re-installed Windows 8 the other night, I called Microsoft tech support and spoke with a guy in India who was very easy to understand and very knowledgeable about my problem and corrected it by taking control of my computer for 5 minutes.
Maybe it's a little overkill, I'll admit but I've lost precious data to a failed hard disk drive before and now I'm almost paranoid about it to the point I have 6 hard disks spinning plus an off site backup...