Your Windows PC has a secret recovery tool that's seriously useful - here's how to access it ...

Is your company home to any of the 8.5 million Windows PCs clobbered by the July 18 CrowdStrike-induced outage? If so, Microsoft has a new recovery tool designed to help you repair those corrupted ...

QMR is Microsoft’s emerging tool to resurrect Windows after updates break bad. Here’s what it does and how to take it for a test drive. A noteworthy new feature is starting to make its way into ...

Update 19-Aug-2024: Microsoft has now resolved this bug. See details below. Five years ago, after a particularly embarrassing run of flawed Windows updates, Microsoft vowed to do better. Part of its ...

You mightn't think it, but the Windows 11 Recovery Environment is genuinely powerful.

If used properly, new features built into Windows 11 offer safe, nearly complete backup, restore, repair, and recovery operations without third-party tools — but there are some caveats worth knowing.

Microsoft is expanding the toolbox of recovery options for Windows 11. After recently adding the ability to reinstall Windows via Windows Update—at least in version 24H2—the company is now introducing ...

Windows 11 is getting a very useful troubleshooting feature that can help you fix PCs that cannot boot, and you can already try it out. In 2024, at its annual Ignite conference, Microsoft announced ...

Microsoft offers an easy method to recover Windows devices when encountering fatal issues that prevent them from booting up – Quick Machine Recovery. It searches the cloud server for resolutions and ...

BitLocker locked me out of my PC after a system update, but the recovery key saved me. I found it on my Microsoft account under the device’s details and used it to unlock each encrypted drive. It’s a ...