Restoring a Windows XP computer from the command prompt eliminates the need to boot from a CD or floppy disk. To use the command prompt for the restoration, you must access it in Safe Mode during ...

Next time you wipe your PC's hard drive clean and reinstall Windows with that old installation disc, you don't want to connect your fresh, unpatched and vulnerable system to the internet only to ...

If your Windows PC does not boot, crashes, or you simply want to clean it up, you may be interested in restoring its factory settings. If you do not have the Windows CD/DVD to format, reinstall, and ...

Windows comes with a built-in repair environment called the Recovery Environment. Unfortunately, it is possible for the recovery environment to become inaccessible. The same tools can be accessed by ...

Getting the Recovery Discs for my X31 was a nightmare (and still unsuccessful, even after paying them the money). First time the sent me a stack of discs, 1 or 2 of which were unreadable (these were ...

THERE’S A CERTAIN magical quality to the operating system that comes with some PCs. It’s there, but it’s not there. For several years now we’ve been airing reader gripes about the shortcomings of the ...