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 ...

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.

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

Restore files or folders using File History When backing up files with File History, Windows 10 will store different versions of the files as they arebacked up.

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.

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 ...

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.