It’s time to get on board with Windows 11. Four years after launching its current operating system, Microsoft will cease ...

What is a factory reset? That's when you wipe your computer's hard drive and reinstall its operating system. Doing this reverts your computer to its pristine state, deleting all your personal ...

Among Windows experts, a clean install is a time-honored ritual, a way to wipe out accumulated cruft and restore an old PC to new life. You can find plenty of perfectly good reasons to do a clean ...

As with a computer, you should take the steps to securely wipe and reset your phone or tablet before selling it. The process is much easier on mobile devices than on computers.

Many computers ship with recovery partitions, so that you don't need to use separate Windows 7 media. When you completely wipe a hard drive clean, this recovery partition is also removed.

Sometimes, it’s best to wipe the system drive clean and start completely over with Windows.

MICROSOFT’S latest version of Windows is about to be a massive pain for users who value their security. The tech giant has announced that some will have to annoyingly wipe their entire PC in … ...

A clean boot starts Windows 11 with only essential drivers and apps to troubleshoot problems, and in this guide, we'll teach you how to use it.

Follow the instructions to revert your computer back to when it was first unboxed. You’ll be asked to choose whether you want to erase data "quickly" or "thoroughly." Opt to erase data thoroughly.