How to Backup Windows XP Drivers

Video Transcript

"Hi. My name is Dave Andrews. Today I'm going to show how to back up Windows XO drivers. Your drivers are programs that run hardware such as your video, your hard drive and your mouse. Backing these up is a very important tool if you ever have to go back to a point before, say if you've corrupted your computer or something got lost. So let's go to the computer and I'm going to show you how to back those up. To back up your drivers, we're going to do so using a system restore point. Let's click on start and we're going to go to all programs. We want to choose accessories, system tools and system restore. Drivers are one of the things that this system restore is going to create a back up point for. It will also back up your system registry. If you're computer ever gets infected with spy ware or a virus, you can restore your computer to a point in time before it got infected. So from here let's select create a restore point and say next. We're going to give it a description and we're going to choose create. This will go through all the drivers and the registry in my system and it's going to create a restore point. As it says, restore point created and it gives you the date. To go back to my restore point at a later date, let's go again to start, all programs, accessories, system tools and then system restore. This time we're going to choose restore my computer to an earlier time and select next. And here I can choose all the dates where system check points have been set. This is a very effective tool for backing up your computer for later restorations. My name is Dave Andrews and I've just showed you how to back up XP drivers."