Windows 11 - QMR - Quick Machine Recovery

You'll find my accompanying tutorial covering installation, activation and testing at: https://youtu.be/f3csHJkLv8E 

QMR is available once you've installed KB5062660 (Build 26100.4770)

What QMR Does

Quick Machine Recovery is a Windows 11 recovery feature designed to automatically detect and fix critical boot failures. 

It works by:

- Booting into Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) after repeated startup failures

- Connecting to the internet to check Windows Update for known fixes

- Applying remediation if available, then rebooting

- If no fix is found, it retries based on configured intervals

It’s essentially a smarter, cloud-connected evolution of Startup Repair.

💻 Minimum Requirements

- OS: Only available in Windows 11 Insider Preview builds, specifically version 24H2 in the Beta and Dev Channels

- Network: Requires Ethernet or WPA/WPA2 Wi-Fi for cloud remediation

- Recovery Environment: Must have an up-to-date Windows RE

- Build: Insider Preview build 10.0.22635.5170 or later

⚙️ Default Availability

- Windows 11 Home:

- Cloud remediation is enabled by default

- Auto remediation is disabled by default

- Windows 11 Pro & Enterprise:

- Both features are disabled by default and must be manually configured

- Auto remediation is like cruise control — great for smooth roads, but you still want a driver who knows when to take the wheel. For the average computer user, I’d recommend cloud remediation with clear logging and manual oversight for deeper fixes which is why it's the default setting for the Windows Home addition.

Turning QMR On:

Go to Settings → System → Recovery

Select: Click Quick machine recovery

Toggle Quick machine recovery to On

Test QMR

Do this before you need the function to make sure it's working as expected.

Open the Terminal with Admin privileges  

or a Command Prompt with Admin privileges

Copy and run the following two commands one after the other.

reagentc.exe /SetRecoveryTestmode

reagentc.exe /BootToRe