If used properly, new features built into Windows 11 offer safe, nearly complete backup, restore, repair, and recovery operations without third-party tools — but there are some caveats worth knowing.

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Windows utility program System Restore can reverse harmful changes made to your PC, computer expert Jim Foley explains. So if you install sketchy software or that "update" sends things downhill, start ...

System Restore has long been the go-to option for Windows recovery, but it's certainly not perfect. Microsoft's new ...

Data loss is a common occurrence. According to a study of Backblaze customers, nearly one in two (46%) users experience data loss each year. More specifically, memory card data loss is a common ...

Restore points whether on a local or Windows 365 Cloud PC can come in handy especially in recovering a PC back to a previously working condition. You might want to share (move or copy) a Cloud PC and ...

A disaster recovery plan is only effective if you can restore data. But despite the growing risks – especially from ransomware – not all organisations are sure they actually can recover from their ...

When a driver published to Windows Update is found to have a problem, your PC will still look for an updated version of the driver instead. If it can’t find one, that’s when C ...

On Windows 11, Microsoft delivers mandatory monthly quality updates to address security vulnerabilities, enhance stability, and introduce incremental improvements. While these updates are essential to ...

If System Restore is stuck or hung up on Initializing, Finished, Restoring Files, Restoring Registry, Finalizing, Restarting or Finished in Windows 11 or Windows 10, then here’s what you need to do to ...

Ransomware attacks are starting to present IT environments with two very unappealing options: perform a single full recovery that actually loses a lot of data, or perform hundreds to thousands of ...

BitLocker locked me out of my PC after a system update, but the recovery key saved me. I found it on my Microsoft account under the device’s details and used it to unlock each encrypted drive. It’s a ...