The new File History feature in Windows 8 can automatically back up your documents, music, pictures, and other personal files. Lance Whitney Contributing Writer Lance Whitney is a freelance technology ...

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Windows 10 includes an enhanced version of the backup tools introduced in Windows 8/8.1. This set of features, called File History, is a major change from the image-based Windows 7 backup program.

Imagine your documents, photos, videos, and other files are gone forever by sudden system crashes or storage device failures. Quite scary, right? However, to prevent this from happening, Microsoft has ...

Everyone knows backing up files is important, but rarely do we get it done unless we have an automated, easy system doing it for us in the background. Windows 8 comes with such a tool built-in: File ...

Microsoft has updated its OneDrive cloud storage service with new auto-backup options, making it easier for users to make sure all of their content is safety stored with as little effort as possible.

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Q: I recently installed an external hard drive to back up files. I am running Windows XP. What can I do to have the files I have worked on be automatically sent to the external hard drive? I currently ...