How to Use Vista's Previous Versions Feature
One of Vista's lesser-known but extremely valuable features is Previous Versions, which is part of the equally underrated Shadow Copy feature. In a nutshell, Previous Versions makes incremental backups of your documents, so if you accidentally delete or over-write something, you can easily find and recover it. How does it work? Watch the above video to find out. Microsoft's Esther Choi (who you may remember from the Instant Search tutorial from a few weeks back) offers a real-world example of using Previous Versions to undo a common mistake: clicking "save" instead of "save as" (i.e., overwriting your existing document instead of creating a new one). Who says Vista didn't bring any worthwhile features to the table? Little stuff like Previous Versions and Instant Search make the OS a lot more accommodating. Watch the two-minute video, then take advantage of this killer feature. |
