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.

VaultBackupGuid is directly related to the Personal Vault of OneDrive. If this String value has issues, is corrupt, or is incorrectly configured, there is a high ...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 security update is triggering SSD failures during heavy data transfers, according to some reports. The issue came to attention late last week when an X (formerly Twitter) ...

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AI Microsoft's new Gaming Copilot AI tool promises to be 'your personal gaming sidekick' but it mostly seems to do the work of a Google search, with the potential for 'hallucinations' Windows ...

TL;DR: Windows 11 includes numerous pre-installed apps that many users consider bloatware, requiring time-consuming removal, often via PowerShell or third-party tools like Talon. The upcoming Windows ...

Microsoft’s Windows 11 creates System Restore points, that is, snapshots of your PC’s system files, settings and registry. But those points expire and are automatically deleted after 60 days, ...

Error code 0xc0000098 in Windows causes a blue screen crash at startup. The ACPI.sys driver is often to blame, especially on unsupported Windows 11 versions like 23H2 ...

The error code 0x87e0000f typically indicates a failure during the download or installation of games. It often occurs when installing or updating titles via the Xbox ...

The unintentional upgrade notices to Windows 11 come despite Microsoft’s recent announcement of automation and AI features for Intune. Enterprise users are receiving unprovoked offers to upgrade to ...

Meta warned Windows users to update the WhatsApp messaging app to the latest version to patch a vulnerability that can let attackers execute malicious code on their devices. Described as a spoofing ...