Driver Backup - Easily Backup Your Windows Drivers

I was asked by a lot of people how to back up Windows drivers manually. Some people do the backup in case the drivers are damaged by virus or deleted by accident. Some people want to reinstall their systems without reinstalling them again, so they want to back up before reinstallation.

In fact, it is quite important to do backup, especially when your installation CD is lost and drivers are damaged. Now I will tell you guys how to do this by hand. It is very easy, if you follow the steps below:

1. Right Click My Computer and Choose Properties. System Properties Window will pop up.
2. Click Hardware tab. Then click on Device Manager. Device Manager will pop up and you will see a list of your computer device.
3. Open the device whose driver you want to back up. Normally you can see one or all components of the device under the device category. You need to find out all the drivers for the components.
4. Right click a component and choose Properties. The Properties window will pop up.
5. Click on Driver tab and then click Drivers Details. A new window will pop up and shows all the driver files.
6. Find a pen and write down all the files and their paths.
7. Repeat 4 to 6 until you complete all the components under a device. Do not miss a single file!
8. Create a folder and copy all the files which you have found to it.

The process may be a little different between Windows XP and Windows Vista. You need to repeat 3 to 7 to make driver backup for all the device. Please keep in mind that you need to collect all the files in the list. If you miss a single one, the backup drivers will be useless. So don't neglect any file!

When you do the backup manually by this way, you will find it could be very time wasting. It will take you a long time to complete all the work and it can be very risky if you forget a single file.

Removing the Duplicate Files from Your Computer

Have you been bothered that your disk space is taken up by a large number of big useless and duplicate files after using the computer for a period of time? Removing such files is the good method to free up disk space, and have you ever tried to delete them manually? But sometimes it is headache which files should be removed.

It is known to all that such files are nothing but slow down your computer speed, take up disk space and do harm to computer. And, there is still something you should know.

Usually, you should form a habit to clean up the hard disk and categorize the downloaded or copied files regularly and carefully. It is important for you to remove the repeating files. For those useless files, you can delete or put them into a specialized catalog. By doing this, you can find them at any time and save the disk space as well.

But if you want to try to delete them manually, you can enter into "Tool" to choose "Option" > "Normal" tab, then tick "Import Delete Duplicate Files Automatically", what is more, you can set to exclude the repeating pictures. It is a good way to delete those duplicate files.

Even though, you had better be careful to remove the duplicate files. When finding them and before making any decision, it is safer to change the name of the folders, and then to see whether the system is running normally or not. And then, you can remove the repeating files.