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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. “Reset and recovery operations on some Windows versions might fail,” ...

Microsoft has confirmed that the August 2025 Windows security updates are breaking reset and recovery operations on systems running Windows 10 and older versions of Windows 11. "After installing the ...

Microsoft has broken the Windows reset and recovery functionality so badly, it must push an out-of-band update.… While Windows 11 24H2 and Windows Server are not affected, the issue, which turned up ...

What do the emergency updates do? After Microsoft released the big Windows update for August 2025, it caused the installation of the update to fail with error code ...

While you can use the Services Manager, you can also use the command line. To restart the Windows Update related services, restart the BITS service, the Windows Update service, and the Cryptographic ...

A few weeks ago, Microsoft released its usual monthly patch update on Tuesday, fixing 100 security flaws and a vulnerability already exploited in the wild. However, there have been widespread ...

Microsoft has released a PowerShell script to help Windows users and admins update bootable media so it utilizes the new "Windows UEFI CA 2023" certificate before the mitigations of the BlackLotus ...

Microsoft has released a new PowerShell script for updating the Windows 11 /10 and Server bootable media for the latest UEFI Secure Boot certificate. Back in February of 2024, Microsoft announced that ...

You have been warned — do not hit delete. You won’t like this. If you’re at risk from this Windows security vulnerability, the fix is a nightmare unless you’re a fairly expert user. That’s not ideal, ...

To fix the Windows Update error 0x80073713, use the following suggestions. However, before proceeding, restart your system and run Windows Update again. See if it ...