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Some features are locked behind a paywall.

Includes software you can access before booting Windows.

It offers fantastic backup and restores options.

This lets you back up an entire computer regardless of how much data it has. If you are willing to pay for storage, DropBox offers a killer “DropBox Backup” plan for $5.99 a month. It’s also easy to share documents with other users this way.ĭropBox is broadly similar when it comes to features in apps like OneDrive, but it’s the easiest, slickest, and most user-friendly app of its type, in our opinion. Any files you copy into those folders are synced to the cloud. If you install the desktop application, you can designate folders to become “watched” folders.

However, you can store any type of file in your Google Drive. Most users who rely on Google Drive for their daily productivity probably don’t think of it as a place to store files that aren’t native Google files from apps like Docs or Sheets.

Storage is shared across all your Google services.

Great suite of online apps to edit and share documents.

Check out How to Automatically Backup Files to Google Drive or OneDrive to Prevent Data Loss if you want to see how it works.

In that case, you can easily restore your personal information and preferences by just logging in and using the restore function. Suppose you ever have to reinstall Windows or get an additional Windows computer.

OneDrive also automatically syncs essential folders in Windows, such as your Desktop, Documents, and Pictures folders. A OneDrive personal folder will appear in File Explorer, and anything you save to this folder will be copied to the cloud during synchronization. There’s very little to do once the application is installed and you’ve logged in to your Microsoft account.

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