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.

A new bug stops USB devices in the Windows Recovery Environment. You can't navigate the WinRE screens using a mouse or keyboard. Microsoft is working on a fix, but there is one workaround. What would ...

Another Windows update, another glitch. Rolling out this past Patch Tuesday, Microsoft's July update has created a hiccup for some Windows users who secure their PCs through BitLocker. Affecting ...

QMR is Microsoft’s emerging tool to resurrect Windows after updates break bad. Here’s what it does and how to take it for a test drive. A noteworthy new feature is starting to make its way into ...

But the cleanup effort continues. Microsoft estimates that around 8.5 million Windows systems were affected by the issue, which involved a buggy .sys file that was automatically pushed to Windows PCs ...

Microsoft offers an easy method to recover Windows devices when encountering fatal issues that prevent them from booting up – Quick Machine Recovery. It searches the cloud server for resolutions and ...

Recovery Manager's pricing varies by the number of consoles needed and the number of target machines for which recovery information is needed. But the price won't exceed $400 per target server, or $70 ...

If you've installed the big Windows 11 update that Microsoft pushed out in August (which also includes the new Black Screen of Death), you'll notice a brand new entry in Settings: Quick Machine ...

Microsoft has confirmed that some Windows 10 and Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 systems will boot into BitLocker recovery after installing the May 2025 security updates. The BitLocker Windows ...

It is probably fair to say that that the week has been a very eventful one when it comes to Windows Recovery. The first Patch Tuesday WinRE (Windows Recovery Environment) updates for Windows 11 25H2 ...

Quick Machine Recovery was introduced in November 2024 as part of Microsoft's Windows Resiliency Initiative at Ignite 2024, in response to a massive July 2024 outage caused by a buggy CrowdStrike ...