If your Windows PC has become sluggish, unstable, or overrun with software you don't want, the built-in Reset tools in Windows 11 and Windows 10 let you return the operating system to a clean state — either while keeping your personal files or by wiping everything and starting over. The...
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The Automatic Repair screen that reads “Your PC did not start correctly” is not a dramatic flourish — it’s Windows telling you that the boot process failed one of its early checks and the system has moved you into the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) so you can try to fix it. The advice from...
Microsoft has quietly published a small set of Safe OS Dynamic Updates for legacy Windows 10 branches — KB5065918, KB5065307 and KB5065845 — delivering targeted improvements to the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) on September 9, 2025, and marking another step in the winding-down of Windows...
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If you still believe a monthly pass with a registry cleaner will somehow make Windows boot faster, it’s time to stop — not because the registry is sacred, but because there are far higher-impact, safer, and well-supported ways to speed up and stabilize a Windows PC than poking at the registry...
Microsoft released a compact but consequential Canary-channel preview today — Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27934 — that patches several user-facing crashes (notably in the Desktop Window Manager and some UWP apps) while also introducing a serious recovery regression that temporarily disables...
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Microsoft pushed a small-but-significant Canary-channel preview on August 29, 2025, when Windows Insiders received Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27934, a focused flight that fixes several user-facing stability issues while adding an important caution for anyone relying on built‑in recovery...
Microsoft has acknowledged a critical reliability problem introduced by its August 12, 2025 Windows security rollup that disabled core recovery features on multiple client builds of Windows 10 and Windows 11, and issued an out‑of‑band (OOB) cumulative update — KB5066189 — to resolve failed Reset...
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Microsoft pushed an out-of-band emergency update on August 19–20, 2025 to repair a Windows recovery regression caused by its August Patch Tuesday rollup, restoring core recovery features such as Reset this PC, cloud reimaging via Fix problems using Windows Update, and certain MDM remote-wipe...
Microsoft has quietly pushed an out‑of‑band emergency update to repair a regression in its August update cycle that broke Windows’ built‑in recovery and reinstall tools — the very features users and IT teams rely on as a last resort to refresh, reimage, or wipe devices. The fixes (published as...
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 quietly closed a painful upgrade gap: after days of user reports and frantic troubleshooting, the Windows Setup error that surfaced as 0x8007007F during certain in‑place upgrades has been resolved and recovery/reset regressions have been mitigated with targeted out‑of‑band updates...
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Microsoft pushed emergency, out‑of‑band updates on 19 August 2025 after its regular 12 August Patch Tuesday rollups caused Windows’ built‑in reset and recovery flows to abort or roll back, leaving some users and managed fleets unable to complete “Reset this PC,” the cloud “Fix problems using...
Microsoft has quietly acknowledged a serious disruption in core Windows recovery flows and pushed emergency, out‑of‑band (OOB) updates after the August 2025 Patch Tuesday rollups left some systems unable to complete “Reset this PC,” cloud re‑image operations, and certain remote wipe jobs — and...
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Resetting a Windows 11 laptop is one of the most effective ways to cure persistent slowdowns, resolve software corruption, and prepare a device for resale — and the process is now flexible enough to preserve personal files, wipe everything, or fetch a fresh copy of Windows from the cloud. The...
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 pushed an emergency, out‑of‑band cumulative update on August 19, 2025 to repair a high‑impact regression that broke Windows’ built‑in reset and recovery flows — a failure that left some users and IT operations teams unable to run “Reset this PC,” the cloud‑reinstall Fix problems using...
Microsoft pushed an emergency, out‑of‑band patch on August 19, 2025 to repair a serious regression introduced by its August Patch Tuesday rollups that could prevent Windows’ built‑in recovery flows — Reset this PC, the Fix problems using Windows Update cloud reimage, and certain RemoteWipe...
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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...
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Microsoft has quietly issued a set of emergency, out‑of‑band patches to fix a serious regression introduced by the August 2025 security updates that broke Windows’ built‑in recovery tools — including the widely used Reset this PC workflow — and caused some upgrade attempts to fail with error...
Microsoft has issued an emergency out‑of‑band update to repair a high‑impact regression introduced by the August Patch Tuesday rollup that left Windows’ built‑in reset and recovery tools unable to complete on many client devices. id‑August Microsoft shipped its regular Patch Tuesday cumulative...