We recently experienced an installation of Windows 10 with system files that were corrupt to the point that certain sections of the Settings app would automatically close when being opened, among ...

Reinstalling Windows 10 or 11 over itself is an easy and surprisingly effective way to fix all kinds of problems with the OS. Here’s how. Sometimes a Windows installation simply goes off the rails.

Windows 11 has some great new features. The upgrade is free of cost and eligible users can get it on their PC from official sources now. Before installing or upgrading to Windows 11, there are several ...

It's free and open-source.

Among Windows experts, a clean install is a time-honored ritual, a way to wipe out accumulated cruft and restore an old PC to new life. You can find plenty of ...

Every operating system needs an occasional repair job, and Windows 7 is no exception. Whether the source of the problem is corrupt data, a particularly brutal piece of malware, or some other serious ...

Windows’ built-in Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) command, a.k.a. dism.exe, is something of a Swiss Army knife when it comes to working on Windows OS images. Among its many ...

This process is called a clean install, which is ironic as there's nothing particularly clean about it: Microsoft has enshittified Windows Setup.

If Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable is rolled back or is corrupted after Windows Update, you need to follow the solutions ...

To get started on the task of determining whether files on your system look the way they did when they were first installed, you should take a look at the /var/sadm/install/contents file on your ...