When installing a fresh copy of Windows 10, you typically use a USB flash drive to launch the "Windows Setup" wizard to continue with the installation process. However, on a device that has a Unified ...

Installing Windows apps one by one is slow. Winget lets you install and update everything much faster.

If your Windows install is feeling creaky and you want to freshen up, or if you don't have Windows at all, the fastest way to fix things up is to simply do a clean install. Back up your important ...

Install your apps and config the way Linux users do.

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 ...

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Downloaded Windows Automated Installer Kit (WAIK) for Vista so that I could use ImageX.exe to extract a file from a 2.5GB WIM file. (Windows Image File) Apparently WIM is the new hotness and CAB files ...