Detailed use of the "File History" function

Computer Store News: In Windows 8, File History automatically backs up files located in libraries, contacts, favorites, Microsoft SkyDrive, and on the desktop. If the original files are lost, damaged, or deleted, and you want to restore them, what do we do?

1. Open Control Panel - System and Security - File History, you will see the following interface, if the current computer is not connected External drive, then the system will be very clear: we recommend using an external drive for file history. Connect a drive and refresh this page, or use a network location.

2. Connect a USB flash drive to your computer, then refresh the page and the system will show that it is connected. U disk.

3. Click the Enable button and the file history function will be enabled. The status of the corresponding disk will also change to "File History". The feature is saving a copy of your file for the first time & rdquo; and displays information such as "file copy source" and the available capacity of the target drive.

4. Open the U disk for saving “file history”, you can see the files in the following path, mainly saved in the form of configuration files and original file copies.

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5. Restore personal files, if there is a backup, there will be a restore, go to “ restore personal files & rdquo;, we will see the following interface, marked with the backup time, The first few, a total of several backup versions, which files are in the current backup version, and these folders can be opened and viewed one by one, the bottom is also forward and backward switching backup version and a “ restore ” button.

6. Change the drive, all available drives will be displayed in this screen, we can change which drive to use, or “add network location”. And here you can also choose which users' files to back up.

7. Exclude folders, where we can set which items to exclude when backing up files.

8. Advanced settings, where we can set the time interval for saving a copy of the file, the size of the offline cache (when the save location is the network location), how much to keep the saved version, etc. These detailed setup options.