Virtually all commercially-sold PCs come with some sort of recovery tool–an alternate way to boot your system (either a CD, a DVD, or a special key combination to press shortly after turning on your ...

While USB flash drives have largely fallen out of vogue, they can be handy as a backup when cloud backups or other solutions fail to save Windows.

A freelance designer just finished a critical project, only to realize that several important files vanished from the PC unexpectedly. In moments like these, having reliable recovery software becomes ...

Maybe your PC won’t boot. Or it could be infected with some kind of persistent malware. Perhaps Windows puts up a Blue Screen of Death every time you type the word aardvark. No matter what kind of ...

The Internet is a dangerous place, and if you are not careful, you can infect your computer with all sorts of viruses, worms or other harmful programs. And if you browse lots of websites and download ...

Windows utility program System Restore can reverse harmful changes made to your PC, computer expert Jim Foley explains. So if you install sketchy software or that "update" sends things downhill, start ...

We’ve all done it before — moved a file into the Recycle Bin, and then pressed the Empty Trash button. Later, we found out that that was an important file that you needed to keep, but now it’s gone ...

Whether you've accidentally deleted your files, run format on something you shouldn't have or, Flying Spaghetti Monster forbid, dropped a hard drive, there's still a chance that you can get your data ...