Microsoft has not yet removed a mandatory clean install requirement for a Windows 11-exclusive feature, which is said to ...

Microsoft reverses Smart App Control change in Windows 11. A clean install is still required, with the toggle feature delayed.

This process is called a clean install, which is ironic as there's nothing particularly clean about it: Microsoft has enshittified Windows Setup.

As part of its recent campaign to make Windows the platform of choice for "hybrid work," Microsoft is rolling out a new security feature. It's called Smart App Control and it's kind of like Windows ...

If you want to de-enshittify Windows 11 but find starting over from scratch to be daunting, then this is for you.

When power users get a new PC, sometimes they like to start fresh — so they pull the pro gamer move of re-installing Windows with a fresh ISO image direct from Microsoft that has no pack-in bloatware ...