Installation media, such as a USB flash drive, can be used to install a new copy of Windows, perform a clean installation of Windows, or reinstall Windows. To create installation media, go to the software download website, where step-by-step instructions can be found.

Do you get the following error message when trying to set up live captions or voice access: " We can’t download the required language files right now. Make sure you’re connected to the internet and try again in a few minutes. "? This can mean that there is no access to the Microsoft Store app catalog in the cloud during setup.

Learn how to enable virtualization through the UEFI (or BIOS) of your PC to run the Windows Subsystem for Android or Windows Subsystem for Linux.

If you see error 0x80151006, it means your Microsoft account is valid, but it’s not associated with a Games for Windows Live account. Find out how to fix it here. Getting error code 3151? Learn how to fix it so you can download Xbox updates. Learn how to fix error message 69-80072746 so you can play Xbox Live content.

In the first scenario the error "Something went wrong [1001]" is caused by security software impacting the WAM plug-in (AAD.BrokerPlugin). Please see this article for more details about how to mitigate: Can't sign in to Microsoft 365 desktop applications. To provide temporary relief, these steps may help:

In two instances recently (CVE-2020-1571 and CVE-2020-16908), you might have seen feature update bundles or media refreshing within your managed environment. This article is intended to provide more information and general guidance about why those refreshes happen and what is needed once it does.

Describes a hotfix that resolves several deadlock conditions that result in CSV resource failure.

Update Windows installation media with Dynamic Update. Learn about the terminology that Microsoft uses to describe software updates. Communities help you ask and answer questions, give feedback, and hear from experts with rich knowledge.

Follow troubleshooting steps to install, uninstall, or run your application. Your computer might temporarily lose some functionality while in a clean boot environment. Reset the computer to start normally after clean boot troubleshooting and resume functionality. Install, uninstall, or run an application.

Windows devices that support the newest Vector Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) (VAES) instruction set might be susceptible to data damage. The affected Windows devices use one of the following on new hardware: To prevent further data damage, we addressed this issue in the May 24, 2022 preview release and the June 14, 2022 security release.