Have you ever found that backing up your precious settings and documents is a nightmare, or your worried that you could suddenly lose them with a hardware failure.
With this method you can backup the settings of every program thats installed plus your documents and pictures, messenger and email.
1. Open Windows Explorer and navigate to c:\user folder.
2. Here you will see your main user account. Now simply copy this to another hard drive (should be a phsyical seperate hard drive rather than a partition) or burn it to cd/dvd.
If you have more than one user account on your computer, dont forget to back those up.
If during the copying process you get messages saying that some files cannot be copied and look like system files then chose skip and continue copying the rest of the files.
Note: I do not recommend when you wish to restore your settings and files that you do a wholesale copy to the new system. Instead do it one program at a time.
[if some kind person would like to make this into a sevenforum standard tutorial I would be grateful, as long as I am credited as originator]
With this method you can backup the settings of every program thats installed plus your documents and pictures, messenger and email.
1. Open Windows Explorer and navigate to c:\user folder.
2. Here you will see your main user account. Now simply copy this to another hard drive (should be a phsyical seperate hard drive rather than a partition) or burn it to cd/dvd.
If you have more than one user account on your computer, dont forget to back those up.
If during the copying process you get messages saying that some files cannot be copied and look like system files then chose skip and continue copying the rest of the files.
Note: I do not recommend when you wish to restore your settings and files that you do a wholesale copy to the new system. Instead do it one program at a time.
[if some kind person would like to make this into a sevenforum standard tutorial I would be grateful, as long as I am credited as originator]
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My Computer
At a glance
Windows 7 Professional 64-bitIntel E8400 3GHzKingston PC3-10700H 4GbXFX Radeon HD 5850 BlackEd.
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- self built
- OS
- Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
- CPU
- Intel E8400 3GHz
- Motherboard
- Intel DX48BT2
- Memory
- Kingston PC3-10700H 4Gb
- Graphics Card(s)
- XFX Radeon HD 5850 BlackEd.
- Sound Card
- Asus Xonar DG
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 2x Samsung SM-T220HD 22"
- Screen Resolution
- 1680x1050 on two monitors
- Hard Drives
- OCZ Vertex 2 120gb 3.5" (OS)
Seagate Momentus XT 500gb
Samsung F3 1Tb (games)
2x Samsung F1 1Tb
- PSU
- Thermaltake ToughPower 850w
- Case
- Thermaltake Armor
- Cooling
- Scythe Mugen II
- Keyboard
- Microsoft Comfort Curve USB
- Mouse
- Razer Diamondback 3G
- Internet Speed
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