Is a clean install your go-to for stubborn Windows issues? Think again. There are ample recovery options right at your ...

Several days ago, we covered where to download a Windows 10, 8.1, or 7 ISO image file, but a common question is what do you do once the image is downloaded? The answer is make a bootable USB drive out ...

For a long time, Microsoft didn’t sell Windows install media in the form of bootable USB flash drives. Instead, it prefered to stick to old-school DVD media, despite the fact that many notebooks today ...

WTF?! The Free Software Foundation (FSF), the same group behind the 2009-era Windows 7 "sins" campaign that encouraged users to throw Windows 7 in the trash, has now started another initiative – one ...

If you want to download Windows 7 ISO file for free and install it on your system or install it as a virtual machine via VirtualBox or any other virtualization software, you can download it by using ...

Windows 7's 'netbook edition' -- Windows 7 Starter -- will only let you run three applications at once, Microsoft has revealed. There has been some confusion over what this means, and how it's handled ...

SIUC asked the Windows forum about running software intended for Windows XP in Windows 7. For the most part, it should just work. I’ve rarely run into programs that run fine in XP but have trouble in ...

Why it's a problem roughly 11% of the computers in the world are running this obsolete operating system. As reported by Bleeping Computer, Microsoft will pull the plug on software support for the ...

Despite pleas from users to stop the confusion and craft one version of Windows 7, Microsoft is continuing down the path it followed with XP and Vista releasing multiple versions or SKUs ...

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