Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. Everybody keeps harping on Windows 8 being only suitable ...

Microsoft has announced a new feature for its upcoming Windows 8 operating system which should help to keep users' files safe from harm: File History. According to an announcement made earlier this ...

That critical and irreplaceable file you were viewing the other day in Windows is lost or won’t open. Are you in trouble? Not if you’ve been using File History. Available in Windows 10 and Windows 11, ...

PowerShell recovery scripts using WBAdmin no longer work in Windows 11, but VHDX mounting offers a manual workaround for restoring files. I recently wrote an article in which I walked you through the ...

If you own a laptop or a desktop PC, you're probably using your device to store important files. The average hard drive, or solid-state drive (SSD) on more modern devices, is home to thousands of ...

The more we rely on our devices, the more crucial it becomes for us to back them up – just think of all the precious photos, documents and more you'd stand to lose if your computer was ever stolen, ...

While Backup and Restore (Windows 7) creates viable and fantastically compatible hard drive images, various flaws and limitations with the Windows Rescue/Recovery disks render it basically unusable ...

Microsoft's latest Windows 10 update has fixed a nasty bug that could compromise crucial hard-drive back-ups. The issue first cropped up following the release of the February 2021 patch, with this ...

Microsoft is automatically turning on OneDrive Backup in new Windows 11 installations. Your files aren't stolen -- they've just been moved to a new folder and synced to the cloud. This article ...