If you shop for a new PC today, the odds are overwhelming that it will be preinstalled with Windows 11. Windows 10 support is nearly at an end, and Microsoft's OEM partners are building hardware ...

Plenty of people like Windows 11, but if you’re not one of them, don’t worry. You can go back to Windows 10. That’s right—even if you bought a computer with ...

At this point, your computer will exit Windows and enter the OS installer, which could take some time. It'll restart a few times during this process, which is normal. If all goes well -- and it should ...

Microsoft will release the final Windows 11 version this fall, but you can test the public beta right now. Before upgrading to Windows 10, you'll have to run the PC Health Check app on your device.

When installing Windows on an old or new PC, you can either format the C drive and then install or delete old Windows files and then install. In both cases, Windows will install and overwrite any file ...

We originally published this install guide for Windows 11 shortly after the OS was released in October 2021. To keep it current and as useful as possible, we updated it in October 2024 to cover ...