Chromebooks are some of the most reliable laptops on the market but that doesn’t mean users will never need to reinstall Chrome OS. Unlike many competing operating systems, That won’t require ...

Reinstalling OS X 10.1 after Security Update MacFixIt readers remain largely stumped as to why Apple warns against reinstalling OS X 10.1 after installing the Security Update (see yesterday's item). A ...

The other day we wrote an article about Java incompatibilities causing problems with Apple's Mail program, and linked to an Apple knowledgebase article that claimed the simple way to reinstall Java is ...

The Mac OS X Lion operating system includes a recovery utility that you can use to reinstall the operating system if necessary. If you have a partitioned hard drive, you simply need to select the ...

OK here, I have not thought about it before, but I have read that one should reinstall the OS when one is upgrading the CPU.<BR>How much of that is true in regards to:<BR>1)Win9x OSes?<BR>2)WinNT, 2K, ...

-system -<BR>Powermac 5500/225<BR>OS 8.0<BR><BR>This will boot without extensions. Without bypassng them, the OS starts to load from either the CD or from the HDD but stops before any extensions ...

MacOS includes a recovery partition that allows you to easily erase all data on your Mac and reinstall your OS without an installation disc. In this article we will show you how to reinstall Mac OS ...

Practical steps to make an aging operating system usable into 2026 Part 1 You can switch to running mostly FOSS without ...

New Mac computers are causing problems for some users who tried to reinstall OS X or restore their computers from a back up. The problem stems from a permissions issue that occurs when the Mountain ...

Apple issued an update to its Safari web browser earlier this week that was supposed to patch more than a dozen security vulnerabilities, but has now pulled it offline due to issues affecting some ...

If you ever need to restore the entire contents of an OS X Lion startup drive, or just perform a reinstall of the OS, you’ll find that there are numerous ways to accomplish these tasks. In fact, there ...

We’ve all been there. After several years, your Windows installation is a mess of old libraries and half-uninstalled apps making the machine slow. Or perhaps you got a virus and needed to wipe the C: ...