Did you know that when you make changes to a file you have in your Dropbox, the cloud service actually remembers those changes? In fact, Dropbox retains unlimited versions of your files for 30 days.

After toiling on a report for hours, you close Word and realize that you forgot to save the file. Perhaps you opened a document intended to be used as a template; you made a few changes and then saved ...

The days of pressing the wrong key and losing a whole week’s worth of work should be long gone now. Today’s cloud-based apps keep duplicate copies of everything, saving you the hassle of manual ...

Previous Versions, a file restore feature available by default as part of Windows XP (Service Pack 2) and Windows Server 2003, restores files stored on Windows Server ...

The boys in Redmond have put together a short video showing how to recover a previous version of a file using Vista's system restore points. All you really do is open the folder containing the file in ...

Sometimes, during collaboration, someone makes mistakes. It might also be necessary to check the current document against the original. It may also happen that the current document has gone corrupt or ...

Dropbox offers an excellent way of syncing files across computers and devices, sharing files with others and automatically backing up your photos. The more you dig into the app, the more features you ...

If you've overwritten a Word file and haven't saved any older copies of the file under different file names, you can check to see whether Windows 7 has a previous version of the file to restore to.

Windows Vista users: You can easily restore previous versions of a recently used file by right-clicking on the file and navigating to the "Previous Versions" tab ...