Windows 11’s February update, KB5077181, is failing to install for some users and causing a range of system issues,.

This process is called a clean install, which is ironic as there's nothing particularly clean about it: Microsoft has enshittified Windows Setup.

Here's my essential Windows 11 update safety checklist, along with instructions on how to recover your PC if anything goes wrong.

If you want to de-enshittify Windows 11 but find starting over from scratch to be daunting, then this is for you.

However, Windows 11 is not always an easy upgrade—especially if your PC is more than five years old. Microsoft's stringent hardware requirements mean a number of ...

You probably already know that you can manually install a fresh copy of Windows using your own install media. You can create this install media using Microsoft's tool, or you can use a tool like Rufus ...

Above and beyond the benefits of a fresh do-over, clean installing Windows 11 improves security, exposes new features, and more. With the Windows 10 end of support date arriving on October 14, ...