Easy way for the average PC user to back up files
Backing up important data and files is something that everybody knows they should do but somehow a lot of people never get around to it. One reason may be that it is not a very interesting way to spend your time but then neither is brushing your teeth.
Another reason backups do not get done is that a lot of average PC users are not quite sure how to do them or they find the procedure to involve too many options. There are many software programs available for this chore but they often have more features than the average PC user wants to deal with. My experience with teaching has made it clear that a lot of people simply refuse to do anything on a computer that involves more than a few simple steps.
Backing up is very important and I have written a program (for Windows XP) that reduces the task to as few steps as possible. Click on the folder to back up, click on where to back up, click to make the backup. The program is free and can be downloaded here. Unzip the little file to any convenient place and click it to start a backup. If you do not have a backup folder, it will make one for you. It copies only new files or those that have changed so once you have made an initial backup, the procedure is quite fast. It is a VBScript so you will get the standard script warning from your anti-virus software but it is perfectly safe. It does nothing to the system and if you do not like it, just delete the file.
Now you have no excuse not to keep your data backed up.
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