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 ...

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 ...

So I've been fighting with this bastard for the last few hours this morning. I had no idea SP1 was never installed after I'd performed some 94 updates about a month ago. I've been away from Windows ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yesterday I had the task of installing Windows 7 with SP1 on an HP EliteBook 8460p. This is a new machine, with the Intel i5 processor and 4 GB of RAM. During the process, I began to note the amount ...

8GB is plenty of storage space for Windows XP or most Linux distributions. So if you have one of the first generation Acer Aspire One computers with an 8GB SSD, you should have no problem running ...

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… ...

A number of users attempting to install Microsoft's recent convenience rollup for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 have found various steps along the way rather ... inconvenient. There are some ...

Yes, it's another Microsoft screwup. Even though it reissued the Win7 Servicing Stack Update and marked it as 'security,' many people won't see it. The problem: Ancient installer update logic. Don't ...

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 ...