Windows 10: Is file history (control panel) reliable? Differential backup apps sug

I remember being all happy in 8.1 with file history, until it died on me and found nothing I was looking for.
Is it reliable in 10?

I have a couple of files I want to backup on a external HDD. I would need a differential backup software, any suggestion?

Thanks.

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how do I restore files from file history after system image restore.

I had the same issue, and there's a way to get File History to see the full range of backup points. Here are the instructions for Windows 10:

• In the Start menu, type "Control Panel" to bring up the old Control Panel app - open it.
• Click the "System and Security" section.
• Click the "File History" section.
• In the File History control panel, on the left-hand column, click "Select drive."
• Select the drive that had your prior File History backups.
• Once you have selected the drive, the bottom pane will show your existing backups. You should see the prior backup there (and possibly a backup from today if File History already tried to create a new backup). Select the past backup that you want. A message
  may pop up informing you that this is a past backup.
• Once you're back at the File History control panel, on the left-hand column, click "Restore personal files." You should be able to use the File History navigation tool to navigate your prior backup and restore it.

Good luck!

 

History backup settings conflict

Trying to do a History backup to external USB flash drive. Using the "Settings" app to choose folders and files to include in the backup and files and folders to exclude. When the backup is completed, the backup doesn't backup those folders I chose in
"Settings" but does backup those locations shown in the "Control Panel" History backup settings: "Libraries, Desktop, Contacts and Favorites". Why is the file History backup defaulting to the Control Panel settings and is there a way to get the History backup
to those files and folders I've selected in the Settings app? I recently upgraded all the way from Vista to Windows7 to Windows 10 but I understand that the new "History" backup has no relationship to my past backups under the previous versions of Windows.