This may sound like it could be the shortest tutorial ever, but if you were planning on just sticking the Windows 7 DVD into your PC come 22 October and hoping for the best, it's a good job you're ...

Reader Chris needs to reinstall Windows 7 Home Basic on his laptop. Just one problem: he lost his recovery discs. A more common problem is when you need to reinstall Windows and you never had recovery ...

Microsoft is, if anything, tenacious. After nearly three years trying to get people to buy Vista, the company has decided to put that operating system in its rear-view mirror. On Thursday Microsoft ...