Increase the amount of times you can "Step backward" alt+cntrl+z?

I find myself saving numerous iterations of my files, because the defualt settings only let step backwards a few times. Is there a way to greatly increase the amount of times you can step backward? I though perhaps the history window would let me double back on many of my actions, but even that did not go far back enough.

I'm not fully sure I follow you in this logic yet...  I apologize if I'm being dense.
Saving your work occasionally is always a good idea, REGARDLESS of the number of history states.  Even if you keep only 10 history states you'll lose just as much work if you haven't saved anything since the last several hundred steps and elephant droppings unexpectedly shut down your PC.
The important thing I'd like to note is that my choice of the number of history states, from what I have observed, does not seem to change the stability of Photoshop in any way.
If you find choosing a larger number of states does destabilize Photoshop on your system, perhaps you have RAM problems?  Or maybe configuration issues?  What do you have your RAM usage limit set to?
Your example about brush strokes is actually a good one to make my point that a deeper history can be a Good Thing.  For example, if I touch up 75 spots (hot pixels in an astroimage, for example) with separate applications of the Spot Healing Brush, then I want to compare before and after images but I forgot to make a layer copy way back when, I can copy the image, go back 75 steps in the History, and paste the result over the original from an old history state to blink a before/after comparison.
The thing that's not been mentioned here is Efficiency.  I have purposely populated my workstation with a lot of high reliability RAM (16 GB ECC).  You might find Photoshop's efficiency going down if your system doesn't have enough RAM to be able to easily manage a deep history...  Efficiency matters too, and hammering the scratch disk with a lot of I/O can not only slow things down for you but can also sometimes expose latent instability in a system.
-Noel

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