This weekend was a big hurricane of Windows 10 news. First, OEM pricing leaked for the operating system. Then, Microsoft started prompting Windows 7 SP1 and Windows 8.1 users to “reserve” their free ...

Everyone in the Windows world is sitting on a bit of a time bomb: On July 29, Windows 10 upgrades cease to be free. Let's be clear. While some of you die-hards might not want to move off of Windows XP ...

The Windows 10 free upgrade period has now closed, so how will Microsoft get more Windows 7 and Windows 8 users to adopt it? Now we know: take away user control and make both operating systems behave ...

But there is at least one notable exception: If you don’t have enough free storage space on your hard drive, the installation won’t complete. This may result in a ...

When installing Windows on an old or new PC, you can either format the C drive and then install or delete old Windows files and then install. In both cases, Windows will install and overwrite any file ...

There are a lot of practical reasons to set up an OS like Windows 10 in a VM rather than using it as a native installation. If you have to deal with files you can't trust, need to test multiple OS ...

Did you know that a full copy of Windows can be installed and run from a USB drive? Microsoft introduced "Windows To Go" with Windows 8 Enterprise and has continued supporting the feature in Windows ...