If you've ever set up a new Windows PC or reinstalled Windows on your existing one, you know that it can be a big chore. Hunting down installers, clicking through installation wizards, and then ...

I accidentally formatted the 100 MB system reserved partition. It was on a disk separate from the Windows installation disk. When I formatted that other drive, I could no longer boot into Windows. I ...

Now that Microsoft is ending support for Windows 10 on October 14, holdouts on the operating system face larger bugbears than ...

I was on vacation last week and finally got a chance to install Microsoft’s Windows 7 pre-beta and play with it a bit. Like Preston Gralla, my first reactions were positive. Installation went off ...

A couple of weeks ago, while lamenting Microsoft’s poorly articulated Previous Versions story, I alluded to an earlier post in which I detailed my attempts to reproduce Mac OS X’s Time Machine feature ...