Ed Rhee, a freelance writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area, is an IT veteran turned stay-at-home-dad of two girls. He focuses on Android devices and applications while maintaining a review blog ...

Users of Windows 8 will experience a different way of accessing their PC's boot options, which Microsoft described on Tuesday. Windows 8, which is currently available at the beta stage, boots so fast ...

Load up a USB drive with the right software, and you’ll have a complete toolkit to restart, troubleshoot, and repair Windows PCs. I’ve learned to keep a collection of useful Windows tools and repair ...

Windows 8 includes a recovery feature called Automatic Repair that attempts to automatically diagnose and fix common issues that may cause Windows 8 to not start properly. Automatic Repair will start ...

But the cleanup effort continues. Microsoft estimates that around 8.5 million Windows systems were affected by the issue, which involved a buggy .sys file that was automatically pushed to Windows PCs ...

If you cannot boot into Windows Recovery Environment, use the fixes provided below: Check the status of the Windows Recovery Environment Use other methods to enter the Windows Recovery Environment ...

If you had upgraded Windows 8 using the Windows8-Setup.exe executable, rather than through a DVD, it can be difficult to troubleshoot your computer in the event that it is not starting properly or you ...

Since my last blog post about the HP Pavilion dm1-4310ez, I have continue to investigate and experiment with Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) boot, Secure Boot, and multi-booting with ...