Microsoft today confirmed that users can apply a workaround trick to do a clean install of Windows 7 on a blank hard drive as long as they toe the licensing line. In a blog post earlier this week, ...

I am in charge of upgrading a small computer lab from Windows XP to Windows 7 and I'm having a hell of a time with it. One quirk of these computers is that they don't have a DVD drive, so I've made an ...

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 ...

Installing Windows from a USB flash drive is more convenient and faster than optical discs. Plus, if you have a netbook or another type of computer without an optical drive, you don't have any other ...

Microsoft issued a friendly reminder in a blog post earlier this week that if you installed Windows 7 on a blank hard drive using an upgrade disc, your Windows installation is illegal. Well, maybe… ...

I've got a Windows 7 installation with a legacy partition that I'd like to combine sooner or later with the existing Windows partition. Right now, however, the partition is "in front" of the 100 MB ...