I’m guilty of ignoring the Windows prompts reminding me to create a backup of my PC. I use Dropbox to create backups of many of my files, but that doesn’t protect everything on my computer. Neither does OneDrive. There are Windows settings, applications and other odds and ends that I simply don’t back up with any regularity. That’s why I’m using today, World Backup Day, as an excuse to back up my PC, and I urge you to do the same — before disaster strikes.
If my PC were to stop working today, I’d have to set it up from scratch. I’d still have many of my files on Dropbox, but I’d spend a lot of time installing apps and getting everything back to how it was. But Windows provides two different ways to back up your PC: Backup and Restore and File History.
Backup and Restore lets you create a full-image backup, and
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