It's been over a year now since the infamous CrowdStrike incident that put both CrowdStrike itself and Microsoft on blast over the inability of millions of computers around the world to recover from a ...

Cleaning temporary files, running malware scans, taking care of old registry files, and even updating drivers manually are things that Windows already manages for you. Letting go of these outdated ...

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 ...

In context: Microsoft is introducing a new safeguard for Windows 11 users: Quick Machine Recovery (QMR), a feature designed to address one of the most frustrating scenarios in personal computing – ...

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 ...

If you've installed the big Windows 11 update that Microsoft pushed out in August (which also includes the new Black Screen of Death), you'll notice a brand new entry in Settings: Quick Machine ...

A few months ago, Microsoft let slip a forthcoming Windows 10 feature that was, at the time, called InPrivate Desktop: a lightweight virtual machine for running untrusted applications in an isolated ...

A couple of weeks ago, while lamenting Microsoft’s poorly articulated Previous Versions story, I alluded to an earlier post in which I detailed my attempts to reproduce Mac OS X’s Time Machine feature ...

If you happened to check out our recent visual tour of Windows 11, you may be finding yourself tempted to install the OS so that you can get a proper hands-on look. In this article, we’re going to ...

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