How to Find a Specific Guide on the rTS Wiki (rtech.support)

Start on the rTS Wiki home page and look at the Highlighted Content section. It links directly to the wiki's main guides, including clean-installing Windows, dealing with malware, setting up MFA, and building a personal backup plan. If your topic is one of those, that section is the fastest route. The wiki is a documentation site, not a forum, so you navigate by page rather than by searching threads.

What the home page gives you

The rTS Wiki describes itself as "the official documentation site for r/Techsupport, built by the community for the community." Its landing page is organized into a few blocks:

• Highlighted Content — the entry point for the most common guides.
• Who is writing this wiki? The contributors! — a list of the community members maintaining the pages.
• How can I contribute? — notes that the site is built with GitHub Pages, with a link to the repository and a Contributing Guide.

For finding a guide, only the first block matters. The rest explains who runs the wiki and how to help, not where the content lives.

Match your task to a highlighted guide

The home page names four topics explicitly. Use this to decide whether the wiki already covers what you need:

If your question fits one of these, open that page from Highlighted Content and follow it directly. These are full guides, not summaries, so expect step-by-step instructions on the page itself.

If your topic isn't highlighted

The home page excerpt only shows the highlighted block, so it does not confirm whether other guides exist or how they are indexed. Two practical options:

1. Check the wiki's own navigation. Documentation sites built on GitHub Pages usually expose a sidebar or menu of all pages. Scan it for a heading close to your topic before assuming the guide is missing.
2. Search the repository. The "How can I contribute?" section links to the GitHub repository behind the site. Browsing its files shows every page the wiki contains, including ones not featured on the home page.

Avoid treating the wiki like a forum thread. There is no indication of a search box or discussion area on the home page, so expecting to "ask" or "search posts" will send you to the wrong place. The subreddit is separate from this documentation site.

A concrete example

Suppose you want to wipe a laptop before selling it. You land on rtech.support, see "How to clean install Windows" under Highlighted Content, and open it. That page is the wiki's own procedure for a clean install — the exact task — so you follow it there rather than hunting through Reddit comments. If instead you wanted to keep the existing system but guard against ransomware, you would open the backup plan guide and the malware recommendations page together.

Verifying you're on the right page

Before following instructions, confirm the page matches your goal: the title should name your task (clean install, malware, MFA, backup), and the content should be written as a guide rather than a question thread. The footer shows an "Edit page" link and a "Last updated" date — the home page lists Aug 30, 2026 — which tells you the page is maintained wiki content.

Common sticking points

• Looking for a search bar first. The highlighted links are the intended entry point; start there.
• Confusing the wiki with r/Techsupport. The wiki is documentation; the subreddit is where people ask questions. A guide you can't find on the home page may still exist in the repository.
• Expecting every topic to be featured. Only four guides are called out on the landing page. Absence from Highlighted Content doesn't mean absence from the wiki.

If you can't locate a guide after checking the highlighted links and the repository, the Contributing Guide linked from the home page explains how the site is structured and how pages are added — useful context for knowing where a topic would live.