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.

Sometimes, the best way to fix deep-seated Windows issues is to burn everything to the ground and start from scratch. Reinstalling Windows refreshes the operating system, which gets rid of most ...

I've got a laptop where I first noticed that an Antivirus that uses Windows Installer. It says it can't access the Installer. Now, I've got a USB printer that suffers from the fate.<BR><BR>I've ...

After prolonged use or after installing Windows 10 updates, third-party apps, drivers, or antivirus software, it is not uncommon for your computer to start performing poorly. To help with this, ...

One key technique in the Windows repair playbook involves wiping out everything on the storage device (typically C:\) from which Windows boots and on which that OS resides. Prosaically enough, this ...

Trying to do a repair install of Windows 98 on a customer's pc i.e. reinstalling on top of what's there already. The install gets as far as checking the disk and then tells me that because there's an ...