Your Windows PC has a secret recovery tool that's seriously useful - here's how to access it ...

You mightn't think it, but the Windows 11 Recovery Environment is genuinely powerful.

It can be quite frustrating and alarming to see There are no more BitLocker recovery options on your PC, especially when you are locked out of the system. This error ...

A freelance designer just finished a critical project, only to realize that several important files vanished from the PC unexpectedly. In moments like these, having reliable recovery software becomes ...

BitLocker locked me out of my PC after a system update, but the recovery key saved me. I found it on my Microsoft account under the device’s details and used it to unlock each encrypted drive. It’s a ...

Bare-metal recovery is also one of the biggest features missing from Windows itself. There's no native way to make a system-wide backup and then restore it in one step if things go wrong. Granted, ...

Since BitLocker heavily relies on WinRE to handle pre-boot authentication, including the recovery password prompt, if WinRE is disabled, corrupted, or not properly ...

Microsoft has released the KB5077241 optional cumulative update for Windows 11, which comes with 29 changes, including improvements to BitLocker, a new network speed test tool, and native System ...

In sharp contrast with its approach to privacy, Windows 11 security is in a good place, with no major enshittification issues.