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When your PC is acting up, one diagnostic tool at your disposal is the Windows Recovery Environment (or Windows RE). Windows RE offers a series of functions to help you root out whatever is ailing your machine. Using it, you can choose to reset your computer, run an automated diagnosis and repair tool, adjust settings […]

If you found it difficult to access sites and services early Monday morning, you are not alone. In fact, the rest of the world was having trouble, too. For a short period of time, a global outage prevented people from accessing a wide variety of sites and services, from Facebook to Fortnite. The trouble stemmed […]

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Users were unable to access accounts or execute trades for more than two hours. Other affected platforms included Snapchat, Reddit, Hulu, Xbox, and Fortnite. Crypto traders expressed frustration as reliability concerns resurfaced. A major internet disruption on Monday briefly brought parts of the digital economy to a halt, as an Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage […]