This process is called a clean install, which is ironic as there's nothing particularly clean about it: Microsoft has enshittified Windows Setup.

It's free and open-source.

Get your fresh install settled quickly with these 4 PowerShell scripts ...

IT admins will be busy this month patching Microsoft software and apps, but not nearly as busy as they were in January.

Microsoft has recently blocked a convenient way to sign-in or authenticate on all Windows 11 versions as well as on 10. The ...

CrashFix crashes browsers to coerce users into executing commands that deploy a Python RAT, abusing finger.exe and portable Python to evade detection and persist on high‑value systems.

Editor's take: Microsoft's push to turn Windows into a showcase for generative AI and chatbots is colliding with a far more immediate concern: reliability. Over the past two years, users have been ...

A threat actor is using Net Monitor for Employees and SimpleHelp to launch ransomware and cryptocurrency attacks.

An urgent Windows January 2026 update has been the source of performance issues, resulting in GPU slowdowns in intensive apps and gaming, particularly for NVIDIA GeForce graphics card users, but ...

A fake ad-blocking browser extension is deliberately crashing Chrome and Edge to trick users into running malware on their own PCs.

According to Huntress, the intrusions stem from the many recently disclosed vulnerabilities – some critical – affecting SolarWinds Web Help Desk.

PCWorld highlights the release of KB5073724, Microsoft’s first Windows 10 security update of 2026, addressing critical vulnerabilities including a flaw in WinSqlite3.dll. This update is exclusively ...