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  • 06 November 2011

  • How-Tos: How to Repair a Corrupt Windows 7 Installation

    Every operating system needs an occasional repair job, and Windows 7 is no exception. Whether the source of the problem is corrupt data, a particularly brutal piece of malware, or some other serious issue, you'll occasionally have to reinstall your copy of Windows.

  • 31 October 2011

  • How-Tos: How to remove an autorun worm

    If your Word documents suddenly have the file extention .exe, rather than .doc, and other files have been converted to link files, your PC has probably been infected by an autorun worm. Our Helproom expert explains what you should do.

  • How-Tos: How to fix 'invalid COM' Registry errors

    What do you do when your laptop simply won't work unless you run a lengthy Registry scan and and fix the errors found? One reader had this problem, with most of the errors reported concerning 'invalid COM' references. Our Helproom expert offered advice.

  • 27 October 2011

  • Video: Video: Nokia Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 Windows phones launch

    The Lumia devices are Nokia's first big push for phones running the Windows Phone operating system after the company announced a partnership with Microsoft in February.

  • Opinion: Windows tablets: doomed to fail?

    Microsoft has been pushing tablets since the early 1990s, with little or no success. So will Windows tablets ever succeed?

  • 26 October 2011

  • News: Why Are You Still Using Windows XP?

    A lot has happened since 2001. Technology evolves rapidly, and you won't find many instances of someone using the same technology today that they used a decade ago. Yet, Windows XP just turned 10 years old and many businesses and users still rely on the antiquated operating system.

  • How-Tos: How to create a picture slideshow in Windows Media Player

    Windows has its own integrated media player that allows you to listen to music or view digital photos and videos stored on your PC.

  • Nokia Lumia 710 and 800 Windows Phone smartphones unveiled

    Nokia has unveiled the Nokia Lumia 710 and the Nokia Lumia 700, its first two smartphones to run Windows Phone 7.5, the mobile platform which is also known as Mango.

  • Opinion: Microsoft to Windows XP: Please Die, Already

    Microsoft is eager for Windows XP, its 10-year-old operating system, to fade into computing history. The sooner the better, in fact. But for that to happen, the Redmond company needs millions of XP users to drop creaky, old XP and migrate (hopefully) to Windows 7, or even to Windows 8, which won't arrive until next year.

  • 25 October 2011

  • How-Tos: How to display pictures while listening to music in Windows Media Centre

    Windows Media Centre, which was first introduced in Vista and given a new user-interface and improved functions in Windows 7, is a media player designed to bring music, pictures and even digital TV and movies to one location on a Windows PC

  • 24 October 2011

  • Opinion: The Fast Way to Launch Programs in Windows 7

    People who migrate to Windows 7 from Windows XP often overlook one of the former's best features: the keyboard-friendly Start menu. Specifically, you can run any installed program with just a few keystrokes, no third-party launcher required. (Sorry, Launchy--you were one of my favorites, but you're no longer needed.)

  • How-Tos: How to burn digital music files to a CD in Windows Media Player

    As well as allowing you to listen to music stored on your PC, Windows Media Player, the media player that's integrated into Microsoft's Windows operating system, also enables PC users to burn these digital tracks to CD, providing your machine has a CD writer.

  • 21 October 2011

  • News: Microsoft posts record quarter but says tablets have cannibalized netbooks

    Despite weak consumer demand for PCs, Microsoft posted a record first quarter revenue of $17.37 billion for the period that ended Sept. 30. This beat analysts expected sales of $17.2 billion. Revenue increased 7% percent over the year-ago period. Microsoft credited the increase to enterprise demand for Office, server and development tools.

  • 20 October 2011

  • How-Tos: How to create and listen to playlists in Windows Media Centre

    We've already shown you how to create and listen to playlists of digital music in Windows Media Player, but if you've got a machine running Windows Vista or Windows 7, you can also use Windows Media Centre.

  • 18 October 2011

  • How-Tos: How to create music playlists in Windows Media Player

    Windows has its own intergrated media player that allows you to listen to music stored on your PC.

  • 17 October 2011

  • News: Windows Intune 2.0: Four New Features

    An update of Microsoft's Windows Intune offers a batch of new features meant to simplify how administrators track and manage company-owned PCs and software.

  • Feature: Windows 8 in-depth

    Microsoft has been working on Windows 8 since the day it shipped Windows 7. At the recent Build conference for developers, Jason Cross, John Dunn and Nate Ralph got a detailed look at the next version of the operating system.

  • 13 October 2011

  • How-Tos: How to download and try Windows 8 for free

    We explain how to prepare for an upgrade to Windows 8, and get to grips with Microsoft's new 'Metro' touchscreen interface.

  • 11 October 2011

  • How-Tos: How to reinstall Windows

    Your PC keeps locking up and nothing in tech support or online forums suggest fixes the problem. It may be time to reinstall Windows. We provide a simple guide, plus advice on how to avoid future disasters.

  • 10 October 2011

  • News: Microsoft Preps Big Win Phone 7 Push Heading into Holidays

    Brace yourself for the upcoming Windows Phone 7 onslaught. In the coming months Microsoft will make a big holiday push that will extend into early 2012 in an attempt to win over converts to its new mobile operating system. Andrew Lees, president of Microsoft's Windows Phone Division, has been busy recently spreading the gospel of Phone 7 and dishing on Microsoft's mobile plans, according to a number of reports.

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