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One SSD has become my digital swiss army knife.

The latest version of Ventoy, a Rufus alternative, adds bypass for Windows 11 Microsoft Account (MSA) signin and Internet connection, as well as a bypass for system requirements check.

Last year in May, Microsoft made internet connectivity and Microsoft Account (MSA) mandatory for installing Windows 11 22H2 Insider builds. Thankfully, the OOBE\BYPASSNRO workaround, which we ...

Saving a PC can go from very hard to extremely easy once you set this up.

I always recommend Ventoy (with UDF I like it a lot), but recently I liberated an X1 Carbon Gen 3 and wanted to use it for OS experimentation... and I think the BIOS/EFI on this laptop is a bit wonky.

Load up a USB drive with the right software, and you’ll have a complete toolkit to restart, troubleshoot, and repair Windows PCs. I’ve learned to keep a collection of useful Windows tools and repair ...

The other day I was using Ventoy to test out some different distros. Initially I was doing it because I had some instability with my main machine that were either tied to recent Windows updates or ...

One key technique in the Windows repair playbook involves wiping out everything on the storage device (typically C:\) from which Windows boots and on which that OS resides. Prosaically enough, this ...