cloud recovery

All technology is vulnerable to sudden data loss, and that is exactly why backup software remains one of the most important categories in personal computing. A hard drive can fail without warning, ransomware can lock up entire libraries, and a stolen laptop can take years of work with it. For...

Sticky Notes can disappear in a heartbeat — and when they contain meeting action items, passwords, or research crumbs, that sudden loss feels catastrophic; fortunately, there are five practical recovery paths that cover everything from cloud restores to raw-file recovery, plus a sensible...

Microsoft’s Ignite-stage update makes Windows 11’s recovery story far more ambitious: the operating system is getting a cloud-aware, pre-boot toolbox — including Point‑in‑Time Restore (PITR) and Cloud rebuild — tied into Intune, Autopilot, OneDrive and the Windows Resiliency Initiative so that...

Microsoft is rolling out a suite of recovery features for Windows 11 that aim to shorten downtime, simplify remote remediation, and give IT teams — and users — more reliable escape hatches when updates, drivers, or configuration changes render a device unusable. Background / Overview Microsoft...

Veeam’s recent product moves turn an often-cited aspiration — measurable, reliable data resilience — into a tangible platform strategy that extends from fast recoveries to cloud-native immutable storage and AI-driven detection. What was once a vendor promise has been sharpened into a two-pronged...

Computeractive’s “Problems solved” column from the 10 September 2025 issue distils a familiar mix of household tech triage and hard-bitten workshop experience: practical fixes for everyday Windows upgrades, a clear-eyed primer on Microsoft’s new cloud-assisted recovery tool, and an...

Veeam has released its first pre-configured, pre-hardened software appliance for the Veeam Data Platform — a hardware‑agnostic, Linux‑based delivery of Veeam Backup & Replication that promises faster deployments, built‑in immutability and Zero Trust controls, automated patching, and instant...

Veeam’s new software appliance promises to strip away months of configuration work and Windows licensing headaches by delivering a pre-built, pre-hardened, bootable data-protection appliance that runs on a Veeam-managed Linux “Just Enough OS” — a move designed to accelerate deployments, reduce...

Windows 11 can now attempt to repair itself automatically after repeated boot failures using a new cloud-aware feature called Quick Machine Recovery (QMR) — a Best-Effort, WinRE-based remediation pipeline Microsoft built as part of its Windows Resiliency Initiative and which is rolling out into...

Microsoft quietly pushed an emergency out‑of‑band update after an August security rollup left some Windows 10 and Windows 11 PCs unable to complete “Reset my PC,” cloud recovery, or MDM RemoteWipe operations — the fix is published as KB5066189 for Windows 11 (with companion OOB packages for...

Microsoft has confirmed an emergency out‑of‑band (OOB) Windows update after August’s Patch Tuesday rollup caused built‑in recovery tools — Reset this PC, the cloud reimage flow Fix problems using Windows Update, and MDM‑initiated RemoteWipe CSP — to fail on multiple client branches, and...

Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday delivered the usual mix of security fixes — and an unexpected operational headache: a servicing regression in the August 12, 2025 cumulative updates that broke Windows’ built‑in reset and recovery flows on several supported client branches and, in some upgrade...

Microsoft’s August update cycle produced an unexpected and dangerous side effect: built‑in recovery tools stopped working on numerous Windows client releases, and Redmond pushed emergency, out‑of‑band (OOB) cumulative updates — KB5066189, KB5066188 and KB5066187 — on August 19, 2025 to restore...

Microsoft pushed emergency out‑of‑band updates on August 19, 2025, to repair a critical regression that prevented Windows’ built‑in reset and recovery tools from completing — a problem introduced by the August 12, 2025 Patch Tuesday security rollup that caused attempted “Reset this PC” and cloud...

Microsoft pushed emergency, out‑of‑band updates on August 19, 2025 that restore broken Windows recovery workflows: KB5066189 for Windows 11 (build families 22621.5771 and 22631.5771) and KB5066188 for Windows 10 (OS builds 19044.6218 and 19045.6218) — fixes that directly address an August 12...

Microsoft released an out‑of‑band update on August 19, 2025 — KB5066189 for Windows 11 (OS Builds 22621.5771 and 22631.5771) — to fix a high‑impact regression introduced earlier in the August security rollup that broke Reset and cloud recovery flows, while reiterating a separate, platform‑level...

Microsoft released an out‑of‑band (OOB) fix on August 19, 2025 that restores Windows’ Reset and cloud recovery workflows for devices on the 22621/22631 servicing families (Windows 11 22H2 and 23H2) after an August security cumulative caused those flows to fail; the update, published as KB5066189...

Microsoft released an out‑of‑band update on August 19, 2025—KB5066189 (OS Builds 22621.5771 and 22631.5771)—that quickly became the must‑install patch for Windows 11 22H2/23H2 devices affected by a regression introduced with the August security rollup; the update’s headline fix restores Reset...

Microsoft released an out‑of‑band (OOB) update on August 19, 2025 — KB5066189 for Windows 11 builds 22621.5771 and 22631.5771 — that restores broken reset and recovery flows introduced by the Patch Tuesday rollups earlier this month, and administrators and home users should treat this patch as a...

Microsoft’s August 2025 Patch Tuesday has left a wake of confusion and real operational pain for many Windows users after Redmond acknowledged that its security rollup unintentionally disabled critical recovery paths on a swath of older client builds — a regression that can prevent “Reset this...