Create a slim Windows 7 install disc using RT Se7en Lite.

Although many of you probably pull multiple duties with your HTPCs, there are just as many that use their HTPC as a dedicated device.  It’s not used for day-to-day web browsing, home office tasks, etc.  It’s used for multimedia playback, program recording and other home entertainment purposes.  For a dedicated system like this, it only more »

 
Microsoft has bootable system recovery tool available in beta.

Microsoft has put a new tool out for beta testing that allows for low-level system scanning of a system that will no longer boot due to virus, malware, rootkits, etc.  It is not an antivirus replacement, by any means, it is merely a companion recovery tool in the case of extreme emergency.

 
Guest Post: Identifying and updating drivers in Windows 7

A driver is a utility that determines how your computer will communicate with an input/output device (such as a printer or a scanner).  To ensure your computer and all the peripheral devices are working properly you need to download drivers for each device and update them whenever a newer version comes out.  Some of the more »

 
Windows 7 boot process performance.

I came across this by accident and thought I would include it.  I’m not absolutely certain what it does (I suppose I could Google it), but it could shave a few seconds off of your Windows 7 boot time if you have a multi-core CPU.  It takes only a minute of your time to do more »

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