Back up and restore important files with Windows File History Since Windows 7, Microsoft has offered a convenient way to back up your data to an external drive connected to your PC. If you know how to ...

Use Windows Backup to back up important folders, system settings, and preferences; it can be handy after a reset or clean installation of Windows 11. Configure File History to save multiple versions ...

Windows 8 can natively mount ISOs, and Task Manager is much improved -- and, perhaps most importantly, Windows 8 now has a built-in, continuous backup tool called File History. Share on Facebook ...

Windows File History is still the easiest, cheapest (free) continuous data protection software for Windows. The Add folder function has been removed, but it will back up Libraries you create yourself.

If Windows backup is not working on your Windows 11 or Windows 10 PC, in this case when you try to use File History to backup to an external drive, via Settings > Backup options you see the Overview ...

So after loosing the latest versions of some files I was working on when an app crashed (I back stuff up manually but it had been a couple of days) I decided to give File History a try (I've been ...

These instructions will assist you in backing up your files on either Windows or macOS. You will need an external media to backup to. An external hard drive is suggested as "thumb" drives fill up ...

Here are the fixes that might be useful to fix this Windows Backup encountered an error when writing data to the backup target (0x80780166), The system cannot find ...

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