Windows Tools, Help & Guides

A nice sweetener to the deal for those of you who’ll manage get hold of a copy of Microsoft’s new Xbox 360 release, Halo: Reach before this weekend, is that they’re offering Xbox Live Gold membership benefits to those with Silver memberships. Effectively granting a Halo free-for-all weekend.

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So here’s the scenario.  You already have a working Windows 7 x64 installation on your system and you need to install x86 for testing purposes.

You left your Windows 7 x86 DVD at a friends house and your PC doesn’t support booting from USB.  You’re out of luck right?

UPDATE: You can download the RTM versions of Windows 7 Ultimate, Professional, and Home Premium here (64/32-bit available.)

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In three weeks, Microsoft is set to release the first public Beta release of Internet Explorer 9.  Details have been kept quite close to their chest but a Russian source has leaked a 100% genuine screenshot of Redmond’s new Web Browser.

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After installing some software, an entry appears in your Send To Desktop context menu.

If you’ve a plethora of software installed on your system, this context menu can become cluttered and not as useful as intended my Microsoft.

This Quick Tip is going to show you how to tidy up your Send to menu.

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There are times where you need to find out specific information about your processor.  Weather you need to check if it’s x86 or x64, AMD or Intel or its Revision number.

This Quick Tip is going to show you how to find out this very basic information instantly using only Windows Explorer and your browser.

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Yesterday Rich let you know about our new sub-forum, Windows 7 Tutorials.

Today i want to share with you some of the great content that resides here.

A big thanks go to our forum members that have contributed, keep it up!

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