With the release candidate of Windows 7 now out the door, CNET News' Ina Fried goes through her in-box and answers reader questions about the new operating system. During her years at CNET News, Ina ...

While most Windows programs and applications provide enhanced productivity or entertainment, others overstay their welcome. These unneeded programs can hog precious system resources, slow performance, ...

As an environment to work and play in, Windows 7 beats Vista, hands down. But it isn't perfect, and you may find yourself missing a few features that have disappeared. Here's how to get them back.

The fact that IT is such an exciting topic has a lot to do with the constant changes. In hardly any other industry do new technical developments follow each other so closely. Ground-breaking new ...

To disable startup applications on Windows 11, open the Settings app and navigate to Apps > Startup, and click the toggle next to the app you want to disable. Windows 10 also provides options to ...

Why it's a problem roughly 11% of the computers in the world are running this obsolete operating system. As reported by Bleeping Computer, Microsoft will pull the plug on software support for the ...

Wine is not an emulator like Qemu or a virtualization environment like Virtualbox, but a runtime environment that aims to emulate the Windows API on Linux. This API mapping is not complete, but it is ...

If you want to download Windows 7 ISO file for free and install it on your system or install it as a virtual machine via VirtualBox or any other virtualization software, you can download it by using ...

Windows 7's 'netbook edition' -- Windows 7 Starter -- will only let you run three applications at once, Microsoft has revealed. There has been some confusion over what this means, and how it's handled ...