Backing up windows settings

Any more feedback? The more you tell us the more we can help. Can you help us improve? Resolved my issue. Clear instructions. Easy to follow. No jargon. Pictures helped. To avoid that, you can choose to backup and restore user profile in Windows In Windows 10, you can use the old Backup and Restore Windows 7 tool to backup your data including user profile.

It is recommended to backup to network drive , external hard drive or other offsite location. If you want to directly migrate user profile in Windows 10 to another user or computer, please move to method 2.

In the Backup and Restore Windows 7 window, click Set up backup on the right. In that case, click the Options button and choose Change backup settings to make it. Select the location to save the Windows 10 user profile backup and click Next to continue. If you want to backup computer to external hard drive in Windows 10 , select the external drive at this step.

By default, it has selected all the of created users profiles and system drive s. In the next screen, it will give you a summary of this backup operation. If no issues, click Save settings and run backup. Open Windows backup settings The following items can be backed up: OneDrive folder syncing Turn on OneDrive folder syncing to start backing up your files and folders right from Settings. Need more help? Expand your skills. Get new features first.

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