How much storage space do I need to backup my Windows 10 or Windows 11 device?
Open File Explorer > This PC > Users > (your username) … hover over your username, right-click and select “Properties” and you will see the total size your user profile (example below)
Click on File Explorer
Select the “C:” Drive (Local Disk)
Click on “Users”
Select the User that you normally use, such as Your Name (eg fredsmith) or the one that has the most recent “Date Modified” … in this example it is called “Default” and will differ depending on how the computer was originally setup
Hovering over the user directory do a “right-click: and then click on “Properties”
This will show you the size of the user profile. In this example it is only 1.48 or 1.57 MB but it could be hundreds of MB or even many GB (Gigabytes)
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