Windows 10: How to disable File History Backup in Windows 10 using REGEDIT or GPEDIT

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File History is a powerful tool developed by Microsoft that saves the user’s data on an external drive automatically. To use this tool you just have to connect an external hard drive to your computer, add it to File History, and turn the File History ON; and it starts copying the entire data on your […]

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Permanently Disable File History Backup

Hi,

Welcome to Microsoft Community and thank you for your interest in Windows 10.

I suggest you to follow the below steps to turn off the back up and check if it helps.

• Press windows+X and click on control panel.
• Then click on “backup and restore option”.
• Then click on the option “turn on schedule”.
• Then on the left hand side you will get the option ”Turn off schedule”.

Hope this information was helpful and do let us know if you need further assistance. We will be glad to assist.

 

File History does not backup automatically

Hi,

Thank you for writing us back.

I would suggest you to go through the below steps:

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  Press Windows key+I.
  
• 
  Click on Update and security.
  
• 
  On the left pane, click on backup and select on under automatically back up my files.
  
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  Click on more option under on button.
  
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  Select every hour (default) under back up my files.
  
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  Select forever (default) under keep my files.
  

Also refer the link below link and check if it helps:

File History in Windows

Also work in Windows 10

I hope this helps. Please post back with the status of the issue and we will be glad to assist you further.

 

File History restart

Hi Jim,



Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community forums.



To change the backup drive for File History, the current process should be stopped. I suggest you to try the steps listed below to stop file history on an older drive and restart it on a new drive:



Change File History backup drive:

• Open Settings and navigate to Update & Security > Backup.
  
• Click on More Options, scroll down to locate
  Backup to a different drive section, and choose Stop Using Drive.
  
• Plug in the new storage drive, navigate to Settings > Update & Security > Backup,
  and choose Add a Drive.
  
• Restart File History and configure it by referring to the article
  
  File History in Windows.
  

Hope it helps.

Regards,