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do you get triggered every time you see a

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certain family member's name on the call display because you know

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they're going to ask you for tech support well thanks to acronis who sponsored

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today's video we've got a few tips for you so you'll never have to be the it

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person for your family neighbor or co-workers ever again oh

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thank god i uh i i i can't take another one of those

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calls what do you like you're judging me just like they do

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today's video is sponsored by acronis and their cyber protect home office

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software do you no longer trust Windows restore

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points can't be bothered to make your own backups and stick them in the cloud

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check out acronis today and give yourself some peace of mind

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all right we can't promise that you'll never get

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another phone call email or text asking for help because the computer you built

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two years ago is broken

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but we can help substantially limit what that tech support might entail

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whether your tech illiterate compadre changed something in the BIOS that they

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shouldn't have somehow installed some malware from a suspicious

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email or can't find their favorite apps since

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the latest update we've got you covered one reliable way to kill all three of

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these birds with one admittedly awkward stone is to set up

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your drive in such a way that Windows is the only thing on your default c drive

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so anytime someone calls you can just hit the reset button nuking Windows

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while leaving your personal folders intact on a separate drive partition

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let's say you've just built a new gaming rig for your cousin's uncles other

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nephew or something like that with a one terabyte SSD during the Windows setup

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we're going to partition it into two allocating 100 gigs for our operating

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system on c as microsoft suggests 64 gigs of space when upgrading to Windows

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11 and we want to leave some head room for that once your partition is created

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complete the Windows install after you'll need to head to disk

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management then select the 900 gigabytes of unpartitioned space that we left over

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earlier right click and create a new simple volume assign a letter typically this is

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your d drive unless you've left your boot media plugged in but don't worry

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because you can choose whatever letter you want then you can label it to your

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liking i'm going to go with storage for today's purposes

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if you're not comfortable using Windows built-in disk manager you can do this

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with the acronis software we'll be installing later through their add new

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disk feature under tools and utilities our c drive is going to be where we keep

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Windows and that's it the tricky part is making sure nobody

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but you has access to it so the next step is creating an account

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for our estranged relative that can't touch c go to accounts family and other

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users add other user and then follow the prompts as you go when finished check

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the accounts page to ensure you created a local account and not another

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administrator just about everyone seems to need video conferencing these days

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and acronis actually has built-in protection for zoom cisco webex and

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microsoft teams so use one of these three

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next add steam your browser of choice and anything else they might need steam

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can be installed directly to your storage drive along with any games that will be downloaded just make sure at

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this point that you don't skip through any installation steps when downloading

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any games or you'll miss the part where you designate your partition as the

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location for these files and don't skip on hitting that subscribe

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button because we've got another video coming investigating why Linus's pc

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keeps turning off that you won't want to miss many applications must be installed

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to see it's not super common but they exist they don't give another option

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during installation no matter where you've kept the setup.exe file we can

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live with that just as long as nothing ends up here that doesn't absolutely

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need to be navigate to Windows system settings and then select storage then

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click on where new content is saved this part is crucial see all of these

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drop downs that have local disk c selected change

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all of them and don't forget to click apply

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for the savages who simply save every

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file to the desktop we're going to move that too

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open file explorer then right click the desktop below this pc then select

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properties navigate to the location tab

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click move and then change the directory

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to the storage partition

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yes no more desktop for you oh actually the

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desktop is still there but it's in a different place so you don't get to keep it where you

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thought you did that's the main one but you're going to want to repeat this

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process for documents downloads music pictures and videos as well and when you

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perform the system restore we'll be getting to in just a bit there are going to be a lot of lost files

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that trip to niagara falls gone

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you'll be written out of the will just like that last time anyway

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now for acronis we've used them before when we initially tried Windows 11 and

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the time we intentionally downloaded some ransomware we're obviously still

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using Windows today but their software works for macOS and mobile devices as

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well grab the latest version of cyber protect home office and install it after

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creating your account follow the prompts and away we go once

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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

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backup to the acronis cloud by just clicking this button here

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we don't have much on this fresh install so it won't take very long but if you

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have a slower connection or a lot of files to process this is a great time to

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stretch your legs or check out the new party shirts at lttstore.com they're

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real comfy another nice feature is that while we create this backup acronis

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might also find hidden infections not for us today since this is a clean

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install but something to think about if you've been considering making backups

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recently at this point we have our backup we

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could stop here and simply revert the machine whenever we see fit through the

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recovery tab but let's take things a couple steps further we're going to use

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a cronus to create another backup you should always have more than one backup

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of course but then for those of you short on cache

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we're also going to use Windows built-in features to create a restore point

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basically like hitting save on your operating system although it's only for

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the operating system this will not restore your files or folders should be

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very very clearly stated head to tools and then

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select rescue media builder what we're doing is we're going to create a Windows

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image file that we'll save a copy of on our usb flash drive there are two types

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of media by the way Linux and win pe and it's worth checking that your disks are

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visible under boot media although you might need to add storage controller

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drivers or alter the storage controller operation mode in the BIOS to see them

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now for the part that so many people forget to do

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we have to actually enable the restore point we just made

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in Windows head to system properties and then click the system protection tab

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select your c drive click configure check the turn on system protection box

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and select the data limit for the max amount of usage that your restore points

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will use that will ensure that new restore points don't take over your entire c drive over time

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we're going to do the same thing for our storage partition just in case Windows

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decides to stretch its legs a little bit this is going to be our first line of

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defense so feel free to label it as such or just use today's date

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all of the above shouldn't fail you but

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if you've worked with tech you'll know how often failsafes will

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fail should is basically the only thing you

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can count on let's say someone digs around in the BIOS when they shouldn't maybe they're

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trying to overclock or adjust fan curves and they set parameters that basically

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stop the system from booting the Windows altogether the quick and dirty way to

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fix just about any of these problems at this point is to remove the cmos battery

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from your motherboard which will do a factory reset on the BIOS settings put

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it back in after about a minute or two to make sure that the sram is well and

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truly cleared and then start your pc and perform your recovery through that boot

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media we made earlier hopefully it never comes to this point but at least if it

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does you won't have to spend your entire holiday looking for the problem

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just blast the whole c drive and get back to digesting and big thanks again

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to acronis for sponsoring this video their cyber protect home office software

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is a great option when it comes to making sure that your data is backed up and tucked safely away in the cloud

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they've got disk cloning and full image backup options as well as microsoft 365

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backups so you'll never truly lose anything you can even replicate your local backup

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to the cloud automagically so you always have an offsite copy not a Windows user

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they've still got your macOS and mobile devices covered as well sometimes a

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backup isn't enough when faced with cyber attacks so acronis has built-in

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cyber protection features like url filtering and anti-malware to help keep

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your machine safe check them out in the link below what's the most data you've

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ever lost in a single failure of corruption have you spent hours

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troubleshooting the family pc let us know in the comments and if you

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liked this video make sure to check out our how to try Windows 11 safely video

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for more cronus tips and more tips on how to

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bend Windows to your will