Restoring a previous version of windows on a windows 7 pc using windows.old folder

At times you might want to restore a previous version of Windows, that you had installed before you installed Windows 7. This article explains just that. Windows.old folder is created when you install a new version of windows over an older version. It basically consists of all the data in the root of your partition which had windows installed,  before you installed Windows 7. It might be quiet large in size. So make sure that your windows par...

Dual booting is not a very hard task. But it requires a bit of prerequisite knowledge and if not done with care can lead to disaster. This guide assumes that you already have windows vista installed. 1. Boot with Windows Xp cd and wait till it loads necessary files. 2. Then select the volume in which you want to install Xp (choose a different drive than the one with vista installed. If you don’t have two volumes you can use vista’s built in d...

This is a review that I wrote for my old blog on August 12, 2009 and is based on Windows 7 RC As I am having a vacation I have a lot of free time these days. So I decided to utilize it by doing a comparison of windows 7 with my good old buddy windows Xp. This comparison focuses on Windows 7 RC. One thing I didn’t like about Windows Vista was that I couldn’t play a lot of old games which I liked. That remains true for Windows 7 as well. But it...