I'm not a big fan of optical drives, and haven't had one in my system for quite sometime now (probably around the time Windows Vista was released). How do you install Windows if you don't have an ...

To help ease the pain of upgrading to their new Windows 7 operating system, Microsoft has released a neat Windows 7 USB installer. The utility, Windows 7 USB Download Tool, creates a bootable flash ...

The USB flash drive has replaced the floppy disk drive as the best storage medium for transferring files, but it also has its uses as a replacement for CDs and DVDs. USB drives tend to be higher in ...

There are many valid and legal reasons one might have to feel the need to download Windows 7. For instance, you might be needed to reinstall or recover Windows 7 but not find the original Windows 7 ...

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 ...

Brier Dudley has good news, everyone: Responding to concerns about loading Windows 7 onto … computers that don’t have DVD drives, Microsoft introduced a tool 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 ...

However, things have moved on, and for the first time, Microsoft has begun to sell Windows 10 on pre-configured USB drives. Previous versions of the OS (XP, 7 and 8.1), all require the user to create ...

Would you run Windows 7 on a netbook? It’s a good question, especially when you look at some of the benchmarks vis-à-vis battery life and past versions of Windows, namely XP. But let’s put that aside ...

Great, now I have a functional IMG file. In Windows 10 it appears bootable. This is because Windows 8 and on include the ability to mount Disc Image files in Windows Explorer. When I move it to my ...