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 ...

Online backup is your protection against any physical disaster that might befall your computer or local storage devices. Mechanical failure, acts of malice, or natural disasters are serious threats to ...

System Restore is a feature designed by Microsoft that helps users restore their systems to their previous healthy state. When it is turned on, it captures the snapshots of system image files and ...

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