Although I’ve been playing with Windows 7 for a couple months now, I’m not quite ready to dive in. I want to make gradual move, keeping my Vista-based PC up and running while I transition to the new ...

Microsoft ended support for Windows 7 almost two years ago. For the sake of your own security, stop procrastinating and make the move to Windows 10. Managing Editor Alison DeNisco Rayome joined CNET ...

I've been running various builds of Windows 7 on a number of systems here at the lab since December of last year. Over time, Windows 7 became my default OS on several systems that are in daily use.

Cynics see the new Engineering Windows 7 blog, which launched last week, as a pure PR play from Microsoft. Maybe it's just a matter of setting expectations properly. In a lengthy post (more than 2,100 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I want to install Chinese characters on my Windows 7 Home Premium system.<BR><BR>I'm sure this is easy, and I figured out how to do it in Windows 7 RC Ultimate, but I'm having trouble after installing ...

The simplest check to determine if your Windows 7 computer is ready to connect to a wireless network is to glance at the notification area in the lower right corner of the screen. If there is a ...