Is a clean install your go-to for stubborn Windows issues? Think again. There are ample recovery options right at your ...

This Windows Update error code 0x800700 normally appears when users try to install a cumulative update for Windows 11/10. The entire error message looks like this ...

So I'm migrating from XP to 7x64 and spent the last week installing all my apps and games. Yesterday something went wrong and Windows wouldn't boot up, so I rebooted and it went into the Safe Recovery ...

There's one immutable law of PCs: sh*t happens. And when it does, there's usually a way to fix things, if you had the foresight to create one essential recovery tool first. Booting from a USB recovery ...

I have an HP desktop with Windows Vista 32 bit and I want to use Visual Studio 2013 which only works on Windows 7. I have ordered a Windows 7 SP1 64 bit clean install disk and I plan to reformat the C ...

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 ...

While Backup and Restore (Windows 7) creates viable and fantastically compatible hard drive images, various flaws and limitations with the Windows Rescue/Recovery disks render it basically unusable ...