How to Enable and Disable Windows 11 File History (3 Ways)

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✅ 【Windows 11 File History】
⏰ 0:00 Start
⏰ 0:48 Enable or Disable File History Using Control Panel
⏰ 1:51 Enable or Disable File History Using Edit Group Policy
⏰ 2:26 Enable or Disable File History Using Registry Editor
⏰ 3:24 The Best Alternative for Windows 11 File History

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✅ 【Details】
⏰ 0:48 Enable or Disable File History Using Control Panel
1. Go to Windows 11 Search box and type File History, then open it.
2. Then click the Turn on button to enable Windows 11 File History. And the system will automatically backup your files to the selected drive.

Notice:
1. When you are selecting a drive, it is recommended that you choose an external USB drive or NAS network drive to ensure security.
2. You can also Exclude folders that you don’t want to backup.
3. You can go to Advanced settings to configure the backup frequency and retention policy.

⏰ 1:51 Enable or Disable File History Using Edit Group Policy
1. Click on the Start menu, then search for and open Edit group policy.
2. In the local group policy editor window, navigate to Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\File History.
3. Double-click the Turn off File History to open the settings. Then tick the Disabled box to enable File History and click Apply.

⏰ 2:26 Enable or Disable File History Using Registry Editor
1. Press Win+R to open the Run window and type regedit to open the Registry Editor.
2. In the Registry Editor window, navigate to
Computer/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows.
3. Right-click the Windows key and select New - Key.
4. Right-click in the right pane of the registry to select New, then DWORD (32-bit) Value, and enter Disabled for the DWORD’s title.
5. You can enter 0 in the box and click OK to enable File History. If you want to disable it, you can enter 1 in the Value data box and click OK to disable File History.

⏰ 3:24 The Best Alternative for Windows 11 File History
Except for using File History to backup your files, you can also choose a more secure and reliable alternative software to help you. AOMEI Backupper Standard is a good choice that can backup any files and compress them to an image file.
🔹 It supports 4 backup solutions including file backup, partition backup, system backup and disk backup.
🔹 It supports schedule backup so that you can backup your files at fixed intervals (daily/weekly/monthly) and choose a way to perform the backup, both full backup and incremental backup are available.

1. Launch it. Then click Backup - File Backup.
2. Click Add File or Add Folder, then select the files or folders you want to backup.
3. Choose the destination for your backup.
4. Confirm all your operations and then click Start Backup.

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[AOMEITech]

A mistake in video 2:58, you should name the new key as "File History". So it should be: right-click the Windows key, select New > Key and name it as File History.

[beardymcbeardface]

Is it possible to enable File History in Windows 11 using the local disk as the destination?

I'm aware that this ordinarily would be a bad idea, because all the previous copies of my files would be on *_one_* disk, however I am not concerned about this because I have multiple external regular backups of my files, offline, online and nearline, including multiple separate copies at both the file level and block level to multiple external storage devices and the cloud.

So I am not concerned about the risks of having File History on a single disk, because those risks do not apply in my circumstance.

The reason that I want to add a local File History, is for the times that I want to check an older version of a file but I am away from all my external backups and cannot get access to them, or cannot get quick and easy access to them. On a long plane flight, for example.

In FreeBSD and Solaris I get this thanks to ZFS copy-on-write and I can access older versions of local files locally, but I would like to do this on Windows 11.

[yasyone]

Welcome to aomei my request is pending