If a Windows upgrade has ever gone sideways on you, you know how vague and unhelpful the error messages can be. Here are my go-to troubleshooting tricks when that happens.

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Intermittently, only on my data drive, a Samsung EVO 860 SATA SSD, I'm getting the error: "The semaphore timeout period has expired". I also sometimes get the error: "The specified I/O operation on ...

Microsoft has tacitly confirmed that the mandatory Windows 11 24H2 updates from past months negatively impacted the operating system’s stability, which is bad timing for the company who recently ...