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Nothing beats a full-on system backup for making sure you’ve got duplicates of all your important stuff. Free utility Back4Sure is a simple but powerful tool for quickly, incrementally backing up important files to external drives from anywhere.

A good backup routine is a must for anyone that has any important data on his or her computer. Your documents, photos, music – even your Photoshop brushes and settings – those things are all a real pain to recover when they go missing.

You’re about to tweak your computer and you know you should probably make a restore point, but who wants to dig around in all those menus? Make one with a single click instead.

Free application DropboxPortable makes the popular file-syncing application thumb-drive friendly, so you can access your synced bucket from your thumb drive no matter what computer you’re using.

XXClone is a very easy-to-use app for cloning a system drive while still in Windows. It’s been faster than Macrium Reflect for me, and Macrium’s free version doesn’t support incremental backups. After the initial copy, synching the new changes is obviously a lot quicker than re-cloning the entire drive.

Computer experts reveal secrets that don’t come in a manual! Keep it clean. On a PC, run Disk Cleanup and Disk Defragmenter at least once a month. This will store files more efficiently so your system doesn’t slow down. After about four years, your computer is elderly. If you’re shelling out for a blazing-fast Internet [...]