I want to replace (and combine) my older Win2K desktop PC and cheapo Windows 7 laptop with a new, much better, dual boot laptop. And since the new laptop would become my "everything" workstation I was ...

Booting from CD is one of those computer functions that everyone seems to assume you know how to do. Watch this video, then read this quick tip, and you too will know. You may be able to just boot ...

This was my thought process until a few weeks ago, when I was messing around in my BIOS and had to clear the CMOS. After ...

I must confess, that I try not to run Windows any more than absolutely necessary. But for many reasons, it is occasionally necessary. In particular, I have had several laptops that are finicky with ...

Safe Mode is a lightweight version of the Windows operating system that you can use to troubleshoot the computer when the operating system fails to boot. However, if Safe Mode doesn't work, you must ...

If one of your PCs fails to boot properly -- or is stuck in an endless boot cycle -- accessing Windows and your files may seem impossible. Troubleshooting and repairing a PC that reboots constantly ...

For some time now I have gotten a slow but steady volume of requests that I write about UEFI firmware and EFI boot relative to installing and maintaining Linux. As a result of a casual comment I made ...

These days, bootstrapping a computer is a pretty straight forward process, at least as far as the user is concerned. But in ...

My buddy gave me his wife's Dell Studio 1737 to fix, tried to let it boot normally, got a BSOD with an error msg. Ok, driver issue. I googled and found out this ...

Since there were already a bunch of workarounds doing rounds to install Windows 11 on unsupported PCs, I made some quick ...