This process is called a clean install, which is ironic as there's nothing particularly clean about it: Microsoft has enshittified Windows Setup.

Windows 11 keeps rolling out new features, but not all of them are wins. Two recent additions are raising eyebrows — and not ...

Microsoft says it has resolved a Windows 11 bug that caused some commercial systems to fail to boot with an "UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME" error after installing recent security updates, with the fix ...

Here's my essential Windows 11 update safety checklist, along with instructions on how to recover your PC if anything goes ...

PgAdmin often fails to install or launch on Windows 11 due to a combination of strict Windows file permissions and software conflicts. The app struggles to create or access its configuration files in ...

If you wish your Windows Start Menu were smaller than it currently is, check out the various ways we used to reduce its size.

Ever since the rise of the personal computer, we've seen multiple different ways to interact with computers, including a variety of different operating systems. It's hard to believe that operating ...

Windows systems are heading toward a trust-chain maintenance event that’s easy to overlook until it breaks something. Windows 10 and Windows 11 rely on three security certificates that begin expiring ...

It's officially time to let go. Windows 10 has been over as we know it for some time now, only for Windows 11 to have taken over. To finalize things even further, Microsoft ended support for the ...

Third-party registry cleaners will not speed up your Windows 11 PC. They can cause more harm than good.

The latest Windows 11 update is an optional one, but Microsoft has a few solid reasons for you to pull the trigger and install it right now. On January 30, 2026, Microsoft released KB5074105, the ...

Microsoft stopped supporting Windows 10 last October. Many PCs with Windows 10 don't pass Microsoft's strict requirement check. It's possible to bypass this and ...