[TIP] Yet another reason to like Win11

[Metanis]

A feature driven by the Clowdstrike fiasco. New Win11 Quick Machine Recovery will use Windows update or corporate recovery systems to get a machine out of boot loops. Surprisingly it's enabled by default on Win11 Home edition, however Pro and higher require manual config and/or GPO.

I've turned it on for my fleet.

Quick Machine Recovery

Learn about quick machine recovery and how to configure it with the RemoteRemediation configuration service provider (CSP).

learn.microsoft.com

 

[sapphirescales]

The problem is more often than not Windows won't boot because there's a hardware failure (usually the SSD). Even if this "fixes" the boot issue, all it will do is mask the problem until the drive fails completely, losing all your data. I'm talking home users here of course. Microsoft assuming every home user has OneDrive is extremely irresponsible. These boot loops are the only reason a client comes in for repair. If this "Quick Recovery" feature temporarily fixes the issue, they're not going to bring it in until the drive is completely dead and they've lost all their data. Microsoft doesn't give a crap about their users, however. They haven't since Windows 8 came out in 2012. All they care about is creating the illusion that Windows is "reliable." I don't blame them for wanting to portray that image, but if they spent half as much time actually making Windows reliable and creating software that people WANT to use (like they used to) as they did trying to cram garbage software that no one wants down user's throats, they wouldn't be losing so many customers to MacOS and Linux.