Boot loops are one of the few PC issues that make even seasoned users break into a cold sweat. One moment your system is fine ...

A good bit of the feedback on my most recent post about installing Fedora on my new laptop was along the lines of "instead of telling us what doesn't work, please give us some information about what ...

If your laptop cannot find the operating system, it usually displays a message such as No bootable device found or Insert boot media. This indicates a failure of the storage device (HDD or SSD) itself ...

Back in the old days of 2010, I used to walk into my home office in the morning, hit the power button on my production system, and then head back upstairs to have breakfast. By the time I returned to ...

When your Windows 11 system gets stuck on the Gigabyte logo during boot, it typically indicates a failure in the boot process before the operating system can fully load. This can result from hardware ...

TL;DR Introduction  It’s more common than you might think to miss built-in defences. Windows has a lot of features that help ...

If a critical Windows system process fails to run properly, your operating system will crash and display a Critical Process Died Stop Error 0x000000EF or Blue Screen ...

The release targets the Windows Recovery Environment and plays a major role in how systems recover from boot failures.

Windows 11 hasn't seen the growth numbers Microsoft was probably hoping it would, but it still makes up nearly 20% of Windows installs, according to AdDuplex. Although there have been a lot of ...

Those of you with long memories will recall a barrage of complaints in the run up to Windows 8’s launch that concerned the ability to install other operating systems—whether they be older versions of ...

My computer has often (but not always) completely shutoff during a cold boot process (towards the end of the Windows XP boot screen). When this happens I first need to boot in safe mode and then can ...