There are some good suggestions here but I will give you one based on the assumption that your parents won't want to leave the familiarity of Windows. 0) Deny them admin rights to the machine. 1) Create a second profile for each of them 2) Write a quick batch or PowerShell script to copy the contents of their Desktop, Documents, Favorites, Pictures, Music, and Vidoes folders (not the entire profile) from their profil…
I'm gonna have to disagree with this one. There are tons of great, battle-tested backup tools out there -- rolling your own solution seems to just be asking for something to go wrong.
This isn't backup. It's user profile element duplication on the same machine. As long as they are not admins or power users on the system then they can't do much damage outside of their profiles.
Backup is another matter entirely.