BackRex Expert Backup

BackRex Expert Backup is a lightweight software application developed specifically for helping you back up and restore your current Windows system configuration, including desktop layout, mouse cursor schemes, sound options, and other settings.

The tool is able to save custom settings (e.g. address book, mail folder, dial-up preferences) of Microsoft Office XP/2003/2007/2010/2013 suite, including Outlook, Eudora, The Bat!, IncrediMail, Outlook Express, Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Firefox.

BackRex Expert Backup offers support for a wizard assistant for helping you set up the entire process. This mode comes in handy especially for less experienced users because they are offered step-by-step guidance throughout the entire configuration process.

The application gives you the possibility to choose between several predefined tasks, namely back up, restore, roll back, or schedule backup tasks. It is recommended to close running utilities while you back up data.

What’s more, you are allowed to specify a folder where the settings are stored, make the program remember the backup directory, apply compression and set the volume size, as well as password-protect the archive in order to block other users’ access to your private information.

BackRex Expert Backup lets you back up a lot of things and you can manually include or exclude items in/from the backup. The tool works with several operating systems, namely Windows XP, Vista, 7, and 8. Plus, it allows you to save configuration settings related to desktop icons, appearance, keyboard, mouse, taskbar, Windows Explorer, MRU lists, dial-up connections, power, sound, and console.

You can save IE (proxy and connection settings, security zones, user customization, cookies, history, and favorites), Chrome (bookmarks, preferences, extensions), Firefox (favorites, settings, extensions), SeaMonkey (favorites, messages, address book, settings), Opera (e.g. favorites, messages), as well as MS Outlook 2000, XP, 2003, 2007, 2010, and 2013 (e.g. mail accounts, mail folders, contacts, address book, calendar, tasks).

You can also opt for exporting settings which belong to MS Office 2000, XP, 2003, 2007, 2010, and 2013 (e.g. user options for Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, and recent files), Windows Mail (e.g. Windows contacts, mail and news accounts, mail folder, signatures), MS Visio (personal settings), Google Picasa, MS Windows Media Player, MS Money, Outlook Express (4.0, 5.0x, 5.5, 6.0), Thunderbird, Eudora, The Bat!, IncrediMail, ICQ, MSN Messenger, as well as recent used files and documents, Start menu items and shortcuts, and contents of My Documents directory.

Scheduled backups can be enabled to run daily, weekly, or monthly, and at specific time. When it comes to restoring options, you can pick the exact items that you want to save. Tests have shown that BackRex Expert Backup carries out a task pretty quickly, but this pretty much depends on the size of the files that you want to back up. It does not eat up a lot of CPU and memory resources so the overall performance of the PC is not hampered.

All things considered, BackRex Expert Backup makes it easier for you to back up your current Windows configuration so you can restore and transfer it later to another workstation. The intuitive layout makes it suitable for rookies and professionals alike.