remote wipe

If your laptop is still in your hands right now, treat that as a narrow window of opportunity: apply a handful of defensive settings that will protect your data, help you recover the device if it goes missing, and dramatically reduce the damage a thief can do. These changes take minutes, and...

Microsoft has temporarily paused the roll‑out of recent Windows updates after a cascade of high‑impact problems—including broken recovery tools, WSUS installation failures, and reports of storage devices becoming inaccessible—hit a subset of users and enterprise environments nationwide...

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 has quietly confirmed that the August 2025 Patch Tuesday rollup left a serious recovery hole: on several still‑supported Windows branches the built‑in Reset this PC and cloud recovery options can fail to complete, leaving devices unable to factory‑reset or perform dealer/IT wipe...

Microsoft has confirmed that a Patch Tuesday update released in August has introduced a serious regression: reset and recovery operations can fail on multiple supported Windows client versions, leaving some machines unable to use the built‑in Reset this PC, the “Fix problems using Windows...