What to do before upgrading

[MoeSabally]

Tomorrow I'm planning to upgrade my pc with some new  parts. I want to replace my cpu, rams, gpu, and psu with newer better models. What do I need to backup before upgrading?

[MuscularPotato]

To be safe, I'd backup everything if I could but especially any personal files. I have my My Docs, Videos, Pics, etc. on a drive separate from my windows install so I make sure that at a minimum that drive is backed up

[MoeSabally]

I have an hhd external hard drive so I can try and use that.

[MoeSabally]

Something just came up in my mind. Will I be able to keep my windows 10 key after updating bios?

 

[TetraSky]

29 minutes ago, MoeSabally said:

Something just came up in my mind. Will I be able to keep my windows 10 key after updating bios?

 

It is possible that Windows 10 will get deactivated since you're pretty much changing everything except the motherboard.

But I do believe the license is connected to the Motherboard, so changing the rest shouldn't have much of a consequence on the activation itself.

Worst case, a new license is 2$~5$ on ebay.  

 

Don't forget to backup things like your save files that aren't in your Documents. Many softwares store their settings in the AppData/Local or Roaming folders. Some games do, as well. (Like Minecraft Java)

If you use bookmarks on your browser of choice and don't use the built-in sync feature, you might want to backup those as well.