Preparations for backing up my PC's

Yes I am still running Win7. Actually when I think about it, it is my primary PC. I have not backed it up since December 2023. It is about time.

I have both Macrium Reflect and AOMEI Backupper installed and updated.

My question is "Is there any preparations I need to do before making the backups"?

Thanks

I found a free program called "PC Cleaner and I going to give it a try. There is a Pro version, but I am NOT sure about that.

Take car e.

Run disc cleanup. Delete System Restore points to make the backup as small as possible. After done, immediately make a new System Restore point.

That free "PC Cleaner" LOL was NOT free. Before it would do anything, you had to buy it. Also was NOT that easy to uninstall. It did NOT show in my Revo Uninstaller.

LordOfWar, the size of the backup is not all that important as it is on a 115 gb thumb drive by itselt.
I tried running "Disk Cleanup", and it did NOT seem to do anything. I will try it again.

huffman said:

I tried running "Disk Cleanup", and it did NOT seem to do anything. I will try it again.

If it shows a 'Clean up system files' button, click on it. Alternatively run Disk Cleanup as an administrator. Either way it will list a lot more that you could clean up.