Microsoft issued a friendly reminder in a blog post earlier this week that if you installed Windows 7 on a blank hard drive using an upgrade disc, your Windows installation is illegal. Well, maybe… ...

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 ...

Of course, the traditional method of installing the OS starts with burning the downloaded ISO file to a DVD, which you then pop into your desktop or laptop. That’s fine if you have a desktop or laptop ...

Microsoft today confirmed that users can apply a workaround trick to do a clean install of Windows 7 on a blank hard drive as long as they toe the licensing line. In a blog post earlier this week, ...

Just to test my know-how and to see how well it would run, I'm fixing up an ancient Thinkpad 570 laptop that I was given for free by a friend. The big drawback, and the thing that will make it most ...

So I'm having a little problem here... I have a ~3 year old SR MBP (2.2GHz). I have a copy of Windows 7 Professional 64bit that I need installed on it for Visual Studio purposes. Unfortunately, the ...