Windows 10: Turn On or Off Remember my preferences for Windows Backup

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This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable the Remember my preferences feature for Windows Backup on your Windows 11 PC. Windows backup helps you to backup your settings and data, including files, themes, installed apps, passwords, and WiFi information for your Microsoft account. This backup enables you to restore your data across […]

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Can't change printer preferences in Windows 10

Hi Chris,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft community.

I apologize for the inconvenience caused. We are glad to help you.

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  What exactly happens when you try to go into printer driver settings from Control Panel?
  

I suggest you to try the steps given below and check if it helps:

Step 1:

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  Type change default printer and hit
  enter.
  
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  Check whether you are able to change the preferences and properties from here.
  

Step 2:

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  Type printers and scanners and hit
  enter.
  
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  Check whether you are able to change the preferences and properties from here.
  

Hope this information helps. Do contact us for further queries. We will be happy to assist you.

Regards,

Jenith

 

File Hisitory is making too many PST backups

Thank you for the response. We suggest managing your File History by setting how often it can save copies and how long it will keep the files.

To do this, please follow these steps:

• Go to Settings.
• Select Update and security.
• Choose Backup.
• On the left side, click More options.
• Choose See advanced settings.
• On the right side, Turn off the File History.
• Then, on the left side, click on Advanced settings.
• Next, look for Save copies of files and choose your preferred option.
• Then, on the Keep saved versions, choose your preferred option as well.

Keep us in the loop with the result.

 

Using network hard drive for backup

It depends what sort of backup you want to do. If you're happy just backing up regular files, then there are a bazillion (really, that many!) different bits of freeware to do that. There is a good list here:

Download Back Up Tools for Windows - MajorGeeks

and pretty much all of them can do network backups. Some even have fancy options like encryption. Really, the most useful thing is just being able to schedule them and know they ran OK.

You may also want to make a system image backup too, and you'll find that software in the very same list.

I don't have Windows 8 as yet, so I'm afraid I can't suggest any for that platform. Personally, I use Clonezilla for image backups.