do you get triggered every time you see a
certain family member's name on the call display because you know
they're going to ask you for tech support well thanks to acronis who sponsored
today's video we've got a few tips for you so you'll never have to be the it
person for your family neighbor or co-workers ever again oh
thank god i uh i i i can't take another one of those
calls what do you like you're judging me just like they do
today's video is sponsored by acronis and their cyber protect home office
software do you no longer trust Windows restore
points can't be bothered to make your own backups and stick them in the cloud
check out acronis today and give yourself some peace of mind
all right we can't promise that you'll never get
another phone call email or text asking for help because the computer you built
two years ago is broken
but we can help substantially limit what that tech support might entail
whether your tech illiterate compadre changed something in the BIOS that they
shouldn't have somehow installed some malware from a suspicious
email or can't find their favorite apps since
the latest update we've got you covered one reliable way to kill all three of
these birds with one admittedly awkward stone is to set up
your drive in such a way that Windows is the only thing on your default c drive
so anytime someone calls you can just hit the reset button nuking Windows
while leaving your personal folders intact on a separate drive partition
let's say you've just built a new gaming rig for your cousin's uncles other
nephew or something like that with a one terabyte SSD during the Windows setup
we're going to partition it into two allocating 100 gigs for our operating
system on c as microsoft suggests 64 gigs of space when upgrading to Windows
11 and we want to leave some head room for that once your partition is created
complete the Windows install after you'll need to head to disk
management then select the 900 gigabytes of unpartitioned space that we left over
earlier right click and create a new simple volume assign a letter typically this is
your d drive unless you've left your boot media plugged in but don't worry
because you can choose whatever letter you want then you can label it to your
liking i'm going to go with storage for today's purposes
if you're not comfortable using Windows built-in disk manager you can do this
with the acronis software we'll be installing later through their add new
disk feature under tools and utilities our c drive is going to be where we keep
Windows and that's it the tricky part is making sure nobody
but you has access to it so the next step is creating an account
for our estranged relative that can't touch c go to accounts family and other
users add other user and then follow the prompts as you go when finished check
the accounts page to ensure you created a local account and not another
administrator just about everyone seems to need video conferencing these days
and acronis actually has built-in protection for zoom cisco webex and
microsoft teams so use one of these three
next add steam your browser of choice and anything else they might need steam
can be installed directly to your storage drive along with any games that will be downloaded just make sure at
this point that you don't skip through any installation steps when downloading
any games or you'll miss the part where you designate your partition as the
location for these files and don't skip on hitting that subscribe
button because we've got another video coming investigating why Linus's pc
keeps turning off that you won't want to miss many applications must be installed
to see it's not super common but they exist they don't give another option
during installation no matter where you've kept the setup.exe file we can
live with that just as long as nothing ends up here that doesn't absolutely
need to be navigate to Windows system settings and then select storage then
click on where new content is saved this part is crucial see all of these
drop downs that have local disk c selected change
all of them and don't forget to click apply
for the savages who simply save every
file to the desktop we're going to move that too
open file explorer then right click the desktop below this pc then select
properties navigate to the location tab
click move and then change the directory
to the storage partition
yes no more desktop for you oh actually the
desktop is still there but it's in a different place so you don't get to keep it where you
thought you did that's the main one but you're going to want to repeat this
process for documents downloads music pictures and videos as well and when you
perform the system restore we'll be getting to in just a bit there are going to be a lot of lost files
that trip to niagara falls gone
you'll be written out of the will just like that last time anyway
now for acronis we've used them before when we initially tried Windows 11 and
the time we intentionally downloaded some ransomware we're obviously still
using Windows today but their software works for macOS and mobile devices as
well grab the latest version of cyber protect home office and install it after
creating your account follow the prompts and away we go once
it's up and running the first thing you're going to want to do is head to backup we're going to create an online
backup to the acronis cloud by just clicking this button here
we don't have much on this fresh install so it won't take very long but if you
have a slower connection or a lot of files to process this is a great time to
stretch your legs or check out the new party shirts at lttstore.com they're
real comfy another nice feature is that while we create this backup acronis
might also find hidden infections not for us today since this is a clean
install but something to think about if you've been considering making backups
recently at this point we have our backup we
could stop here and simply revert the machine whenever we see fit through the
recovery tab but let's take things a couple steps further we're going to use
a cronus to create another backup you should always have more than one backup
of course but then for those of you short on cache
we're also going to use Windows built-in features to create a restore point
basically like hitting save on your operating system although it's only for
the operating system this will not restore your files or folders should be
very very clearly stated head to tools and then
select rescue media builder what we're doing is we're going to create a Windows
image file that we'll save a copy of on our usb flash drive there are two types
of media by the way Linux and win pe and it's worth checking that your disks are
visible under boot media although you might need to add storage controller
drivers or alter the storage controller operation mode in the BIOS to see them
now for the part that so many people forget to do
we have to actually enable the restore point we just made
in Windows head to system properties and then click the system protection tab
select your c drive click configure check the turn on system protection box
and select the data limit for the max amount of usage that your restore points
will use that will ensure that new restore points don't take over your entire c drive over time
we're going to do the same thing for our storage partition just in case Windows
decides to stretch its legs a little bit this is going to be our first line of
defense so feel free to label it as such or just use today's date
all of the above shouldn't fail you but
if you've worked with tech you'll know how often failsafes will
fail should is basically the only thing you
can count on let's say someone digs around in the BIOS when they shouldn't maybe they're
trying to overclock or adjust fan curves and they set parameters that basically
stop the system from booting the Windows altogether the quick and dirty way to
fix just about any of these problems at this point is to remove the cmos battery
from your motherboard which will do a factory reset on the BIOS settings put
it back in after about a minute or two to make sure that the sram is well and
truly cleared and then start your pc and perform your recovery through that boot
media we made earlier hopefully it never comes to this point but at least if it
does you won't have to spend your entire holiday looking for the problem
just blast the whole c drive and get back to digesting and big thanks again
to acronis for sponsoring this video their cyber protect home office software
is a great option when it comes to making sure that your data is backed up and tucked safely away in the cloud
they've got disk cloning and full image backup options as well as microsoft 365
backups so you'll never truly lose anything you can even replicate your local backup
to the cloud automagically so you always have an offsite copy not a Windows user
they've still got your macOS and mobile devices covered as well sometimes a
backup isn't enough when faced with cyber attacks so acronis has built-in
cyber protection features like url filtering and anti-malware to help keep
your machine safe check them out in the link below what's the most data you've
ever lost in a single failure of corruption have you spent hours
troubleshooting the family pc let us know in the comments and if you
liked this video make sure to check out our how to try Windows 11 safely video
for more cronus tips and more tips on how to
bend Windows to your will