This post will show you how to use Version History to restore Office files. If you use Microsoft Office, you might have sometimes accidentally deleted or overwritten an important file. Fortunately, a ...

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The days of pressing the wrong key and losing a whole week’s worth of work should be long gone now. Today’s cloud-based apps keep duplicate copies of everything, saving you the hassle of manual ...

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.

That sinking feeling when you realize you saved over a version of a file you need or unwittingly lost some vital information in a recent document revision is all too familiar to many. In the past, ...

Backing up your documents and other files in Windows is always advisable in case the originals ever get lost or corrupted. That's especially true for files that are important, sensitive, or ...

It won't do what most third-party backup solutions can, but Windows File History, a relic from Windows 8.1, does a reasonably good job of protecting Windows 10 data. When it comes to protecting data ...

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 ...

Mistakes happen—one misplaced key press and suddenly your 10,000 word essay has been reduced to a blinking cursor. Don’t panic though: Whether you need to undo a single action or roll back a whole ...

As a student or professional, chances are you work with word processors a lot of the time. Word processors come with tons of features that can be really handy for any document you're writing, from ...

File History in Windows 11/10 regularly backs up versions of your files residing under this PC and the OneDrive files available offline. So, over time, this process leads to a buildup of history of ...