If we show you how to back up your PC for free, will you finally do it?

IF WE SHOW you how to back up your PC for free, will you finally do it? Beyond simple hard-drive failure, your PC could fall prey to user error, thieves, and all sorts of nefarious malware. The only way to ensure that none of your personal files or programs are lost in a catastrophe is to back up everything regularly.

While backing up your data can be as simple as dumping critical files on an external hard drive every now and again, you’ll ideally want backups that let you recover not just yesterday’s version of a lost file, but last Tuesday’s as well. Backups should be easy to do, or they won’t get done. And ideally, you should have more than one backup in more than one location.

If you’re thinking, “Hey, that doesn’t sound free,” you’re partly right. All of the software we’re recommending here is either free or comes with Windows. But you must buy storage, either in external hard drives or the cloud. (Why an external hard