On Windows 11, Quick Machine Recovery (QMR) is a feature that has been designed to quickly restore your computer from a critical boot failure that prevents it from starting correctly. Actually, it's ...

If when you try to access the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) on your Windows 11/10 device, you encounter the error message Invalid Recovery Area on a blank ...

A few unfortunate users of the Windows 11 October 2025 update (and Windows Server 2025) may have stumbled upon a critical issue where the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) failed to pick up mouse ...

A security patch that addresses over 170 vulnerabilities should not also make useless one of the most vital recovery tools in the operating system yet that is just what happened with Microsoft’s Oct.

Microsoft is expanding the toolbox of recovery options for Windows 11. After recently adding the ability to reinstall Windows via Windows Update—at least in version 24H2—the company is now introducing ...

This week, Microsoft released its Patch Tuesday update for November 2024. On the Windows 10 side we have KB5046613, KB5046615, KB5046612, KB5046665, and the Windows 11 side we have KB5046617, ...

Is your company home to any of the 8.5 million Windows PCs clobbered by the July 18 CrowdStrike-induced outage? If so, Microsoft has a new recovery tool designed to help you repair those corrupted ...

The "recovery image location" is normally blank and the index is 0 because you're using the standard recovery image built into Windows. This is not the recovery ENVIRONMENT's location. The RE is just ...

‘As a follow-up to the CrowdStrike Falcon agent issue impacting Windows clients and servers, Microsoft has released an updated recovery tool with two repair options to help IT admins expedite the ...