There’s a time-tested ritual with PC owners. After a few months or years the performance starts to deteriorate and you pull out a Windows install disc and spend a full day re-installing the operating ...

Using a Windows XP upgrade CD The Boot Camp installation instructions claim that a valid full Windows XP SP2 disc is required and that upgrade discs cannot be used ...

5. Insert your Windows XP install disc and start the installation process. 6. Be sure to format the Windows partition named "BOOTCAMP" before continuing with the remainder of the Windows XP setup.

I refurbish a lot of older computers. I am tired of manually installing Windows XP, then the 80+ WindowsUpdates that it needs after a fresh install. I want to be able to just restore an image, enter ...

Update: Before you try all of this, you may want to try using WinToFlash, a utility designed to create a bootable Windows flash drive for Windows XP/Vista/7/Server. If this works for you, you can skip ...

Windows’ built-in Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) command, a.k.a. dism.exe, is something of a Swiss Army knife when it comes to working on Windows OS images. Among its many ...

After a failed Windows update (blue screened in the process) I restarted the PC only for it to freeze during the "preparing automatic repair" prompt. Trying to do a repair Windows 10 install led to ...