The Windows Vista and Windows 7 DVDs come with System Recovery Options, a comprehensive set of recovery tools used to restore the operating system. While Windows XP SP3 CD doesn't offer the same ...

If your office is running older Windows XP workstations, you might no longer have the original installation media. Murphy's law dictates that one of those computers will develop serious operating ...

You can change Registry key values manually using the built-in Windows Registry Editor (regedit) in order to improve performance or make Windows work the way you want, but you need to know what you’re ...

Alas, the days when Windows came with a program for creating a useful emergency bootfloppy are long gone. And those old boot floppies wouldn’t help with XP orVista–even if you PC had a floppy drive.

BCD, or otherwise known as Boot Configuration Data, contains boot configuration parameters on how to start Windows. If the configuration file gets corrupted, you will have to rebuild BCD or Boot ...

The "Bad System Config Info" error is a common and frustrating Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) issue on Windows 10 or 11 computers. This error can be alarming, as it ...

Remember that Stealth Update I talked about a couple of weeks ago? The one that Microsoft sent down the pipes to XP and Vista users and installed it irrespective of whether the user had given consent ...