PC Health Check Download

PC Health Check is Microsoft’s status check tool, which reports basic details about some of your computer’s major components. It is designed to give Windows users an easy way to check storage capacity, battery health, and upgrade status.

After installing PC Health Check, you’ll see a screen that says PC health at a glance. On that screen, you can check a few different health check areas for your computer:

• Backup & Sync – Users can backup specific files and folders, or their entire system. This section will tell you whether your system has been backed up, when the last backup happened, or the failure status of a backup.
• Windows Update – Shows the last time Windows Update was checked, whether an update is available, or if the system is eligible for an upgrade to a new operating system.
• Battery Capacity – For devices with main power batteries such as laptops, this shows how much time is left on your battery charge. This can change as batteries deteriorate, and the calculation is based on an average time to drain.
• Storage Capacity – The amount of storage on your system. Helpful for people using multiple drives who want to see an average.
• Startup time – The average expected startup time.

Compatibility

PC Health Check requires Windows 10 or Windows 11. There are older programs that perform similar tasks on older versions of Windows, but this is specifically the Health Check system for Windows 10 and 11.

As PC Health Check includes options to upgrade to Windows 11 from an eligible operating system, it would not fully work on older versions–for example, Windows 7. While Windows 7 does have information delivery encouraging people to update, that is completely unrelated to PC Health Check.

Backups

Backups are provided by Microsoft’s OneDrive system. Like many file storage lockers on the cloud, there are multiple tiers of storage.

You don’t have to backup every single file on your computer. Backups can be as simple as:

• Passwords and browser settings.
• Specific work files or personal documents and media files.
• Specific drives, such as hard drives, SSDs, flash drives (also known as thumb drives), or SD cards.

Integration

For OneDrive, all you need to know is your storage size. Backing up basic settings is usually fine for their free, basic plan. For larger project folders or drives exceeding multiple gigabytes, you may want to purchase larger tiers of service.

OneDrive regularly has sales for storage size, and even promotions for a small amount of permanent, free storage space. The tier levels change as the modern world of storage changes, with multiple terabytes becoming the norm for both businesses and individuals.

A note on backing up and migrating.

If you use other storage systems, you can copy your PC Health Check backups from OneDrive to other services. There are specific guides for data migration–the act of moving data–and verifying your data afterwards.

It’s important to know that after any transfer–not just between services, but even drives–can corrupt. Be sure to check your files to make sure they work if they matter to you.