You can back up and restore files with Windows’ built-in File History tool — but there are key limitations you should know. When Windows 8 made its public debut in October 2012, one of the new ...

Missing folders? Unreadable files? Corrupted hard drive? Sooner or later, most PC users lose data of some kind. Here’s a series of steps you can take in Windows 11 (or 10) to bring things back. Sadly, ...

File History is a feature in Windows 11/10 that saves copies of your files so that you can get them back if they are lost or damaged. If you want to enable Previous Versions, you have to enable File ...

The File History tool in Windows 10 lets you restore your files if they're corrupted or inadvertently deleted. Here's the most straightforward way to handle the task. In my last article, I showed you ...

How to correctly use File History to transfer data files to a new Windows 10 installation Your email has been sent Written by Soon after last week’s article, How to use Robocopy to quickly back up all ...

“It’s been over a month, but I have accidentally deleted some photos via the recycling bin, and I’d really like them back. I’ve heard of Windows recovery files, but I’m not sure how they work. Any ...

Jim Wilkerson tells me that he “opened a WordPad document that I have been working on for about two weeks…the last ten or so pages were not there.” You can’t ...