This may sound like it could be the shortest tutorial ever, but if you were planning on just sticking the Windows 7 DVD into your PC come 22 October and hoping for the best, it's a good job you're ...

Has Windows 8 got you down? It's not easy, but you can switch your new PC back to Windows 7. We show you the step-by-step (and the pitfalls). From the laptops on your desk to satellites in space and ...

This article was excerpted from Microsoft Windows 7 In Depth with permission of Que Publishing, copyright 2010, all rights reserved. It covers a new installation of ...

A number of Windows 7 testers have succumbed to a bug that is causing them to crash randomly whenever they try to start Windows Update or install anything using Microsoft's MSI installer. But a couple ...

According to Gizmodo's John Herman, Windows 7 runs like a charm on diminutive netbooks. Installing the new Windows operating system on a netbook, on the other hand, can be a pain. To help out ...

Installing Windows from a USB flash drive is more convenient and faster than optical discs. In part four of our "What to do with your USB flash drive" series, we'll show you how to configure your USB ...

Click on the Start button and select Run, then type regedit. (You can also open the Run window by pressing Windows + R keys simultaneously). Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ ...

BootCamp.exe causes a blue screen of death if you update the nVidia graphic drivers beyond version 302. The volume/brightness overlay does not appear on the screen when changing Trackpad could be a ...

After messing with my partitions a little too much, I decided I wanted to reinstall. I have a valid copy of windows 7 with a product key on a thumbdrive using xboot. I reinstalled ubuntu, and went to ...

Microsoft has licensed the software-download site Digital River to distribute Windows 7 ISO files for installing from a DVD or USB drive. The Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool enables you to create an ...