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Reinstalling Windows 10 or 11 over itself is an easy and surprisingly effective way to fix all kinds of problems with the OS. Here’s how. Sometimes a Windows installation simply goes off the rails.

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Call me a moron but is it possible to upgrade (as opposed to clean install) Windows ME to Win2K?<BR><BR>I know you can do it from Win9x, but I've not found anything that says one way or another ...

It’s that time of year again—temperatures are dropping, leaves are changing color, and Microsoft is gradually rolling out another major yearly update to Windows 11. The Windows 11 25H2 update is ...