Windows encryption protects sensitive files and folders by locking them when not in use or when you're away from your computer. Depending on the version of Windows you use, different types of ...

If you accidentally delete a file, all hope isn’t lost. However, assuming you can’t just drag it back out of the Windows Recycle Bin—especially true if you, like me, tend to default to the more ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is releasing its own Windows File Recovery tool, designed to retrieve ...

Microsoft released today a new simplified version of the Windows File Recovery tool to test on the latest Windows 10 Insider build. In June, we reported that Microsoft quietly released a new file ...

An advanced command line tool for recovering files on NTFS, FAT, exFAT and ReFS file systems. Accidentally deleting a file in Windows only to find it can't be recovered from the Recycle Bin usually ...

Anyone who has accidentally deleted a file knows the panic that comes with the mistake. Sometimes you can find the files in the recycle bin and restore them, but other times the files are just plain ...

This past week Microsoft released Windows 11 25H2 under KB5065789 as build 26200.6725 which is also the latest available ...

Yesterday Microsoft pulled the Windows 10 October 2018 Update as some users were reporting that they were missing files after the update had finished. Later in the day, the head of the Windows Insider ...

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 ...

If Microsoft Excel fails to recognize a file in the XLSX or XLS format, the data contained in the file could be corrupted. When you open a corrupted workbook in Excel, the program should automatically ...