You can back up and restore files with Windows’ built-in File History tool — but there are key limitations you should know.

File History will automatically back up critical folders and files in Windows and help you restore them.

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 ...

See There are no Previous Versions available message? Enable Previous Versions to recover files on Windows via File History or Task Scheduler.

File History automatically backs up important files and documents, while the Windows Backup Tool backs up core files, settings, and apps so you can copy them to a new PC.

How to Restore Files from a Windows Backup on a Mac: Restore from Windows 10 and 8 Windows 8 and 10 have ‘File History backup’, which can be found in Settings > Update & Security > Backup on a ...

To restore files, you had to go into it's slightly confusing interface and find the files you were looking for in a set of folders on your backup drive. Windows 8's File History, on the other hand ...

Windows 10 has a File History tool that lets you create simple backups of files and folders. Here's how to get everything set up so you never risk losing your most important data.

Although Windows 8 includes settings syncing to SkyDrive, it won't back uo your files. Here's how to back and restore Windows 8 files to a hard drive.