Use Windows Backup and Restore Center

The Windows Backup and Restore Center lets you create and configure automatic backups of the data on your computer. If you don’t have a Windows Home Server PC, this is a good backup strategy.

The Windows Backup and Restore Center, once set up, will remember to perform the backups for you, and that’s good. You’ve probably forgotten or simply put off creating a backup yourself. Maybe you’ve even lost data. With a strategy in place to have backups automatically created, you can save yourself quite a bit of heartbreak if something ever happens to your PC.

Back Up Data Fundamentals

The Backup and Restore Center is located in Control Panel; just click the System And Maintenance option, and then click Backup And Restore ...

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