Booting from CD is one of those computer functions that everyone seems to assume you know how to do. Watch this video, then read this quick tip, and you too will know. You may be able to just boot ...

Keeping a bootable USB of the current operating system is just a basic tier of protection. It brings a false sense of confidence that one day, when your computer cannot load the OS, you can use the ...

I distinctly remember around 20 years ago pressing the start button on my beige Windows XP desktop and waiting three or four minutes for it to fully boot. I was always so excited to get on my PC and ...

But with the advent of the tiny, lightweight, and portable USB key drive, system builders now have a new tool. I believe the USB key drive could alter—even usurp—our old rescue and ...

If your old Windows 10 PC can still boot and uses the legacy boot method, I found it easier to migrate to a Windows 11 PC than the previous method, so I am using basic AI to record this as a memo.1.

Story time. A couple of weeks ago, I experienced a very odd thing with my computers. I was trying to reinstall Windows 11 on my primary device, and everything was going smoothly until the installer ...

i am ridding myself of floppy drives forever. since i still run win9x [stop the laughing -- --] i need to use a tricky disk to fdisk, format, and load the cdrom drivers before running the o/s setup.

Go to System Properties, click on Advanced System Settings, then Performance Settings, and choose Adjust for best performance. This will disable some visual effects, but it will make your PC faster.

Here is a question from reader Danny. “I have XP Pro installed at the moment and I would like to format my hard drive so that I can install 2000. Apart from hooking my drive up as a slave to another ...

Here are the best free boot repair software and tools that you can use to fix boot issues on your Windows 11/10 PC: The first tool that we would like to list here is the Windows built-in Startup ...

I've got a Lombard PBG3, which works fine but is hopelessly stuck in OS9.1. Initially I had a bad cd module that would take 5 minutes to read any CD, and then the other day I miraculously found an ...