Is your company home to any of the 8.5 million Windows PCs clobbered by the July 18 CrowdStrike-induced outage? If so, Microsoft has a new recovery tool designed to help you repair those corrupted ...

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Microsoft has released a tool to help recover affected systems after last week's global outage caused by a faulty update pushed through by security firm CrowdStrike. The tool allows IT to create a ...

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 ...

A new recovery tool from Microsoft helps speed up the process to fix computers affected by the faulty CrowdStrike update. Credit: CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty ...

In brief: In the hours following Friday's global Windows BSOD, many wondered why CrowdStrike software was allowed full Windows kernel access. Microsoft now claims that a 15-year-old agreement with ...

The good news? Microsoft has released a recovery tool to help IT workers get around the PC crashes that resulted from the CrowdStrike update, hopefully alleviating recovery times. Quick context: ...

Everyone was minding their business on Friday when they discovered their flight was delayed, their bank wasn't working, or the hospital couldn't offer certain services. A Windows issue was affecting ...

After rolling out Windows 11 25H2, also known as Windows 11 2025 Update, Microsoft has confirmed that the Media Creation Tool has stopped working on devices with Arm64 CPUs.

When you accidentally delete a file or folder while using Windows, it can be devastating, especially if it’s a vital memo or TPS report that your boss is waiting for. Or maybe you can’t find an ...

Over the past weekend, millions of people around the world learned the name of the cybersecurity company CrowdStrike—not for preventing PC armageddon, but for causing it. CrowdStrike famously pushed a ...