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Guys, I have a question. How do I back up my computer by myself, and, when I do, would I be able to put the data back into my sad after downloading win10 tech preview.

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I think the reports of "OMG keylogger!" are a bit OTT.
Yes, it sends info back to MS. But I highly doubt they are actually capturing keystrokes, as in when you enter a password.
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Ideally, you install the Tech Preview on a whole other drive, or partition.

Lacking that, create an image of your current install. CloneZilla or DriveimageXML would do this. Save it on a whole other drive.
Then install the Win10 tech preview.
Note - this tech preview is NOT meant to be a primary OS, but rather a preview, just to see what they are coming up with and to provide feedback to MS.
Functions can and will change randomly, it may crash badly, your hardware may not support it, etc, etc, etc.
 
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I as well as Microsoft recommends to NOT install this on your main system. If I recall correctly I think I read there's a key logger tracking your key strokes. Either way you don't want to install this unless it's going to be on a spare system. I suggest you install it as a vm using something like Virtual box which is free and pretty easy to setup.
 
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Would an 8 GB flashdrive be fine fo this, or do I need something at least 32-64 gb
 
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You can't install it to a flashdrive.
 
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I think the reports of "OMG keylogger!" are a bit OTT.
Yes, it sends info back to MS. But I highly doubt they are actually capturing keystrokes, as in when you enter a password.
 
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For backup, there are tons of software solutions out there. I like Clonezilla and Acronis. When you say "transfer your files", if you mean documents, photos and media then it's just a matter of copying them from an external source. If you mean transfer your installed applications, then not there isn't a good way to do that without messing up the registry. Most applications that ran in either Windows 7 or Windows 8 that weren't from the app store will likely run in Win10, but I would recommend doing a from scratch install and prefer for some quirks.

I stuck a 250GB SSD in a new laptop at the office and installed the preview - seemed like a good mating of Windows 7 & Windows 8. I used a bootable 16GB flash drive for the installer ISO and it was pretty smooth. Tried a couple of our enterprise apps and found they seemed to work without any significant bugs. I wiped the drive before testing one of the significant glitches we found on the Surface Pro tablets ("buttons" on some websites were only selectable using the touch screen and couldn't be selected with a mouse). I experienced the same thing on my Yoga 2 Pro so I am not sure if it's symptomatic of all touch screen Windows 8 devices or if those just happen to coincidentally share that issue.

Good luck and enjoy!
 
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