Microsoft's new Cloud rebuild feature reinstalls Windows 11 and its drivers straight from the cloud, no USB drive needed, even when the PC won't boot.

some have concluded this feature has become security theater in the consumer market than an effective feature (as opposed to the corporate environment where it's often mandated policy.) In some ways I ...

Here's what those enrolled in the Windows 10 Extended Security Updates program need to know about each monthly security update. Now updated for KB5094127, released on June 9, 2026. Windows 10 has ...

You switched on your PC. But instead of your desktop, you see a blue screen asking for a BitLocker recovery key when you haven’t even locked your drive. You don’t know how that happened, and it feels ...

Microsoft has shared mitigations for YellowKey, a recently disclosed Windows BitLocker zero-day vulnerability that grants access to protected drives. The security flaw was disclosed last week by an ...

Microsoft on Tuesday released a mitigation for a BitLocker bypass vulnerability named YellowKey following its public disclosure last week. The zero-day flaw, now tracked as CVE-2026-45585, carries a ...

Here’s a curious conundrum: You use Windows 11, but you also want to minimize your use of other Microsoft products and services. In other words, you wish to use Windows as originally intended, as an ...

A disgruntled security researcher this week publicly disclosed two zero-day vulnerabilities in Windows that enable BitLocker bypass and privilege escalation. BitLocker, Windows’ built-in full-volume ...

I used to have a (virtualized) Windows workstation at my job for something I had to do twice a year that required a windows-only utility. I had a thought and decided to see if I could run it with ...

On April 14, 2026, Microsoft began rolling out the April 2026 Security Update (KB5083769) for Windows 11, introducing several visual changes, improvements, and fixes. However, as with previous updates ...