Computer Help and Support

change it either, not yet, until I need a new PC or the like. And before someone goes and knocks me, blah blah blah on needing to update to latest version of Windows etc., don't. I'm an old IT guy from 1975 on. And nothing I hate more than the constantly applying of updates to my Windows 7 from MS. Ridiculous. I did apply updates all the time and then got simply tired of it. Absolutely sick and tired of getting updates literally everyday to my Windows system. No more and I even told MS that (of course they didn't listen to a peon like me), I never got a response to my email to MS complaining about the constant stream of updates.

Under the Control Panel, under System and Security, the backup criteria are there, and you can point to where you want your backup to go, your external USB drive. I don't think you can get away without the archive first, since Windows 7 needs a way to find the backup later if need be. And it's been a while since I've run a back up on my system, it does remember where I was and will return me to a particular task if something knocks me off, etc. The system will even prompt you if you want to resume a task you were doing, should you get knocked off.

Also, under system tools, you can defragment your Mom's drive/cpu, it will help free up space on her hard drive (basically, it squeezes all of the free space in between tracks etc., freeing up space), you may gain space by doing this too. I do this occasionally.

Good luck.