Windows 8's File History is a neat way to back up and restore important files in case you accidentally delete them or want to restore a previous version of a particular document. You'll also learn how to prevent unauthorized access to the backed up files.

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Windows 10 file backup: Enable and configure file history on external or network drive

In a previous article, you learned how to set up File History in Windows 8 using either an external or network drive. Now, let's learn how to recover a deleted file or folder using this new feature in Windows 8.

For this example, I have a file on the desktop called “history-file.txt” that contains really important information, and now for some reason the file has been deleted. What better time to test the file history, right?

Now the sample file has been deleted from the desktop and the recycle bin and I have also created a new file called "no-important.txt" so that the desktop now contains the following files and folders.