back up my laptop

elsewhere, and my friend has the laptop now. I’m just going to leave this goal up for a bit so I remember to get my laptop BACK eventually!

the best way to do this is. I need to do it fairly quickly.

I could buy another flashdrive thingy and put most of my files on that. Some of the files I don’t need, but I don’t have time to go through them all right now.

I think my first step will be to ummm, what’s the right term for it – set a system restore point? And then start making changes after that. Hopefully when I get my laptop back from my friend who’ll be borrowing it I can just restore the system to today’s date and everything will be as it was. That’d be nice and simple.

But in case it doesn’t work, I’ll put the files on a flash drive too.

Step 1. Set a system restore point
Step 2. Buy another USB drive – I might have enough space on my current one (check!)
Step 3. Put all files on the USB
Step 4. Delete all cookies
Step 5. Go through all websites I can think of that have my passwords saved in them and check to see if they still show up _{actually, easiest way to do this might be to just uninstall and reinstall the web browser! That way all the history is gone too} (Yes? No?)

I’m not so worried about my friend getting info, but some of the people she knows are not trustworthy at all. _{Not so worried about the laptop itself, it’s on its last legs anyway.}