If your computer is slow or acting up, you can reset it to the default factory settings, and here's how on Windows 11 (and ...

The operating system's built-in safety net can be a quick and easy way to recover from a PC problem, but it too can fail. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff ...

This post will show you how to fix System Restore Error 0x80071ac5 on a Windows 11/10 PC. A few Windows users have reportedly been facing System Restore failures. As ...

System Restore points are also called Volume Shadow Copies. Internally, Windows manages them using the vssadmin program that can be used from Command Prompt or PowerShell. This program can list ...

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 ...

This is the basic Blue Screen of Death we've had since Windows 8, with Microsoft adding a QR code to the screen in Windows 10. Jacob Roach / Digital Trends If you've encountered a blue screen of death ...

Microsoft has acknowledged a new bug affecting some Windows 11 applications triggering launch issues and causing them to display errors after a system restore. The company said that "after running a ...