Microsoft offers numerous useful tools that can help users and admins diagnose problems in Windows 10 and 11. Here’s how to use them for best results. As people use Windows 10 or 11 in their daily ...

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A recent Windows 11 preview update might be the reason your computer feels off. Microsoft's December 1 non-security release ...

If you have used Windows for any length of time, you’ve undoubtedly been hit with an error code during an Update that told you absolutely nothing. “Error code ...

Long before the Windows 10 Anniversary Update appeared, it was easy to see that Microsoft was putting more energy and effort into its troubleshooting tools. Here's a look at what's new. Long before ...

Households are increasingly becoming multiple-PC homes. And as people add extra PCs to a home, they naturally want to share files between those systems. Typical multi-PC households also tend to have ...

3 Windows OS Loader %SystemRoot%\system32\winload.exe %SystemRoot%\system32\winload.efi 4 Windows NT OS Kernel %SystemRoot%\system32\ntoskrnl.exe When you hit the ...

[This article was originally published in September 2015. It has been extensively revised and updated since then. The most recent revision was August 29, 2016.] In June 2016, a month before the free ...

Check if it applies to your Windows OS version Enable Scripted Diagnostics Policy Set Software Publishing State value using Registry Editor Run SFC & DISM tool Windows Online Troubleshooting Service ...

Like any complex piece of software, Windows 10 and its installation process is vulnerable to mistakes, glitches, and hardware errors. That being the case, here are some of the most ...

Windows has always come equipped with troubleshooting and diagnostic tools, but in Windows 7 Microsoft has done something it should have done a long time ago and put them all together in one place in ...