Windows 7

Tutorials

• Prepare your PC for future data disasters

  By Rick Broida | 05 February, 2011 01:51

  Reformatting and restoring a PC is not fun--in the way spending 2 hours in the dentist's chair is not fun. You have to back up all your data (and pray that you haven't forgotten anything), reformat the hard drive, install Windows, track down missing drivers, find and reload all your software, restore your data, and pull out clumps of hair over the things you inevitably neglected to save. (Firefox plug-ins, anyone?)

• Switching to desktop Linux? 6 ways to ease the migration

  By Katherine Noyes | 27 January, 2011 06:52

  With all the many compelling reasons for a company to switch to Linux on the desktop, it's no wonder that businesses large and small are increasingly relying on the free and open source operating system.

• Windows 7: 10 Cool Keyboard Shortcuts

  By Shane O'Neill | 21 September, 2010 05:27

  Keyboard shortcuts are wonderful time-savers but many of us are either too accustomed to the mouse or too lazy to get beyond Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V.

• Safely dual-boot Windows 7 and XP

  By Chris Byers | 03 August, 2010 02:41

  QUESTION My PC dual-boots Windows XP 32bit and Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit. Every time I work in XP I lose all my restore points in Windows 7.

• How to get more from a quad-core PC

  By Chris Byers | 13 August, 2010 02:20

  QUESTION: My Windows 7 Home Premium computer has a quad-core processor and 4GB of RAM. I've not found any advantage to using four cores. How can I use the processor more effectively and allocate different processes to the individual cores?

• How To: Move Your Old Email to Win7

  By Lincoln Spector | 24 November, 2009 04:57

  Marsha Naylor wants a way to access her old Outlook Express and Windows Mail messages in Windows 7.

• Windows 7 tricks: 20 top tips and tweaks

  By Preston Gralla | 12 November, 2009 04:20

  Just got your hands on Windows 7 and want to bend it to your will? No problem. We've got plenty of tips, hacks and secrets to keep you busy for a long time, including automatically opening Windows Explorer to a folder of your choice, speeding up taskbar thumbnails, finding hidden desktop themes, forcing User Account Control to act the way you'd like, keeping your Explorer searches secret from others, and more.