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You can back up and restore files with Windows’ built-in File History tool — but there are key limitations you should know. When Windows 8 made its public debut in October 2012, one of the new ...

How to correctly use File History to transfer data files to a new Windows 10 installation Your email has been sent Written by Soon after last week’s article, How to use Robocopy to quickly back up all ...

One of the easiest ways to corrupt a Word or some other file on Windows is to use Notepad. You can corrupt a document or file by opening it in Windows Notepad. Let us check out how! First, open the ...

Encrypting files, folders, and drives on your computer means that no one else can make sense of the data they contain without a particular decryption key—which in most cases is a password known only ...

Nineteenth-century American clergyman and abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher once wrote, “A tool is but the extension of a man’s hand, and a machine is but a complex tool.” These words presaged, by more ...