Is disabling File History a good idea?

I always disable File History via Group Policy Editor but is there a reason this isn't a good idea?

I create backups using Macrium Reflect from time to time and have a good security solution.

Thoughts on this?

PS: I also disable Work folders, I have no idea what that is but doesn't sound like something I may need

 

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Good thing they dumped this.

 

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When I first got my PC, I enabled File History briefly for testing and found it was inefficient and lacking in features compared to third party software. So it stayed disabled since then.

Indeed, MS should either bring it up to standard or remove it. But so far they only seem to remove useful features and add unneeded ones.

 

If you got backup, the File History function will be less useful. You can discard it directly.

 

it is disabled by default from factory in clean installs of Windows 10.

 

I didn't notice that, but I just disabled it from Group Policy Editor

how do you know if it's disabled by default?

 

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