Changes made to your Windows 10 desktop or laptop don’t always work as planned. For instance, you may install new drivers for your storage device or discrete graphics chip, but the drivers are broken ...

Windows 11 is quietly turning into a far more forgiving operating system, adding new recovery tools that are designed to get ...

Microsoft has a plan to achieve better 'resiliency' with Windows 11 That includes improvements to make drivers more reliable ...

A week ago I wrote about my investigations into System Restore on Windows XP and Windows Vista. I have since heard back from a program manager at Microsoft, who said of the Vista default disk ...

If you’re faced with this issue, you can try the recommended solutions outlined below, in no particular order, and see if they help resolve the issue. Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by ...

Nicole Cozma has an affinity for all things tech, but also dabbles in amateur photography. Based on Florida's Suncoast, she enjoys being a spectator to superb sunsets and lightning storms. Whether you ...

Microsoft’s restore point feature is a great safety net if something goes wrong with your PC. It allows you to revert your system back to a previous state, immediately providing a solution to any ...

If your computer is on the fritz, acting weird, or behaving sluggishly, you may be able to revert to a time in your PC’s history when it was symptom free, using System Restore in Windows. System ...

We’ve already talked a few times about Microsoft’s new approach to delivering updates for home users in Windows 10. Unlike previous versions of the OS, Home users won’t be able to prevent updates from ...

If you encounter the System Restore failed to restore a file (0xc0000022) error while running the System Restore tool on your computer, use the following suggestions ...

When you install a Windows Update or make a major change to the OS, the system often reminds you to create a restore point (assuming it doesn't create one itself). Restore points are meant to save you ...

I cleaned out the hijackware and start-up stuff with HijackThis! and got rid of the trojans and the crapware apps that they installed, but I now am sitting with a pretty much useless Windows 7 ...