3 tips for Windows desktop Backup

1. One-click Compressed RAR desktop Backup

According to our most conventional idea, the way to package the desktop should be to use WinRAR to compress the entire desktop to save, when there is a problem need to recover, just unpack the selection file. However, even the most convenient "all desktop → right-click winrar→ Specify compressed folder → to compress" method, it takes 4 steps to complete. In fact, we can extract its core control file from WinRAR RAR.exe, using the control function of this file extension to achieve a key desktop backup.

Extract WinRAR background control program RAR.exe

For security reasons, it is best not to back up the desktop to the same hard disk partition as the system. If you want to back up to the U disk, we simply set up a "desktop backup" folder on the USB drive, copy the Rar.exe files from the system WinRAR software installation directory to this folder, and then build a "Backdesk" with Notepad in the folder. BAT "text file in which you enter a line of code such as" RAR a Deskbak "c:users< username >desktop*.*" "(where the < username > to change to its own current logged-on user name). Save the file and use the right key to send a shortcut to the desktop.

Create a simple program to back up your desktop Backdesk.bat

This way, each time you need to back up the desktop, just double-click on the desktop Backdesk shortcut icon, in the USB disk backup directory, you can automatically generate a Deskbak.rar desktop backup compression package. When you need to recover, open the compressed file to pick the file.

Generated desktop files and folder compression packs Deskbak.rar

Small tip:

If you are afraid to forget, you can also copy the desktop shortcut to the System Startup folder so that the computer automatically back up the desktop each time. The focus of this approach is to find the real folder address of the current user's desktop. To do this: Open your own user folder to the left of the explorer, open the Desktop branch, right-click any of the files, and see the real address of the desktop folder you want from the Properties window.

How to get the real address of the current user's desktop

2. TIB Desktop Backup

RAR files need to unpack after all, it is still a little inconvenient to use. If we have a System Backup professional tool ATI installed on our computer, we can also use it to automatically generate TIB desktop backup files. The advantage of TIB files is that you don't need to unpack them when you use them, just double-click to get the files in them as you would with a folder.

Start the ATI Backup tool and create a "file" Backup task with "other backup → file backup" under the Backup and Recovery tab, which selects all files under the same folder as the desktop path above. Next click on the "Backup name" dialog box to select the backup file's storage target.

Use ATI to back up the desktop Real folder

Click on the "scheduled" option to "open", enter the task booking window, set the time to automatically back up the desktop (such as set at the noon of 11 50 backup desktop). Click the "Back Up Now" button to generate a desktop TIB backup package in the target location. After that, there is no need to think of intervention, every day 11 o'clock Noon 50 system will automatically generate a desktop backup.

Set the time to automatically back up the desktop

3. ISO image backup for virtual desktops

In addition, we can make the desktop into an ISO image file. Relying on direct support for image files from Windows 8 or above, when you need to restore your desktop, simply double-click the image file to directly virtual a "desktop" disk, and then select the desktop file you want.

The ISO image of the desktop can be built using traditional soft disk tools, Winiso tools, etc. The specific method is to select all the files under the desktop under the Soft Disk Pass window, then drag them to the upper window, and then click the "Save" icon, select the disk path, you can get the desktop image we need the ISO file.

In addition to using the above methods to back up desktop files, we can also use a number of specialized tool software to back up the desktop. Backup tools such as "Ding Jia Desktop Backup", "Crazy Dragon Desktop file Automatic backup" are designed to back up your desktop. In addition, we can use the backup function provided by the cloud disk to directly back up the desktop to the cloud. Some cloud disk provides "desktop backup" choice, although some do not have this choice, but we can through its "automatic backup" function, the designated backup folder for the current user's desktop Real folder can be.