A family member recently came to me with this strange Bitlocker issue on a dual boot laptop that occurred after the motherboard was replaced due to a water spill. The Windows 10 boot and shared data ...

Losing your USB flash drive before a big presentation is a terrible way to start a Monday. Losing a drive that also contains valuable personal data or confidential company information will ruin your ...

Update 19-Aug-2024: Microsoft has now resolved this bug. See details below. Five years ago, after a particularly embarrassing run of flawed Windows updates, Microsoft vowed to do better. Part of its ...

Pour one out for Windows 8.1. After years of living in the shadow of Windows 7, 10, and 11, the day of its death is here. Starting on January 10, Microsoft will end its support, cutting off all future ...

If you’re locked out of your Windows 11/10 PC and you try to unlock the BitLocker encrypted drive but you receive the error message The BitLocker encryption on this ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Microsoft may be planning to improve support for OpenDocuments in SkyDrive, and increase the individual file size ...

FixWin was launched at a time when there was no Microsoft Fix It’s or ATS and Windows Troubleshooters, and the only way for the user to fix their Windows problems was to follow tutorials and manually ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 ...

Senior writer Seth Rosenblatt covered Google and security for CNET News, with occasional forays into tech and pop culture. Formerly a CNET Reviews senior editor for software, he has written about ...

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