Your newly purchased computer or the one you just built has Windows 8 installed. You now want to install Windows 7 as a second operating system thus creating a Dual Boot computer and giving you the best of both worlds and full app compatibility as some of your Windows 7 applications may not be supported …
Backup and Restore failed and you receive the following error messages: 1) Windows Backup did not complete successfully. Click the ‘Options’ button and the ‘Show Details’. 2) In the Windows Backup Troubleshooting Options windows you see the following: Windows Backup failed while trying to read from the shadow copy on the volumes being backed up. …
The 500GB hard drive I’m using for this article contains 3 partitions. The first is the 100MB System, Reserved partition, the second is the Windows 7 partition and the third and last partition is a Windows 7 recovery partition. To create space on the drive for Windows 10 we must first use Windows 7’s Disk …
Upgrading to Windows 10; then create a disk and partition image backup, not to be confused with a “System Backup” of your current version of Windows before you do. The built in Windows 10 Roll Back / Restore previous version of Windows don’t always work leaving you with a nonfunctional or incomplete restoration of Windows …
Microsoft recently released a Disk Cleanup Wizard addon/plugin/hotfix (all three names are used in the KB article) that allows users to delete outdated Windows updates on computers running Windows 7 SP1. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2852386 “This update adds a new plugin to the Disk Cleanup wizard. After you install this update, you can use the Windows Update Cleanup …