Summing Up

Good backups promote good degunking habits. If you know you have a backup of your important data, you’re more likely to experiment with the degunking techniques introduced in this book. Besides that, though, it’s important to keep up-to-date backups for the pictures, videos, personal documents, and other data stored on your computer, because losing all of this data could be potentially devastating. Windows 7 comes with the Backup and Restore application just for this purpose and offers personalized backups. You can schedule the utility to run at regular intervals. You can also drag and drop files to a portable device, burn CDs or DVDs, and store data on network drives to create additional backups. I suggest you create your own redundant ...

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