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Let’s begin the guide without wasting time. Just make sure that you have a pen drive with 4GB + capacity if you are making a bootable USB flash drive. Requirements to create bootable Windows USB: # Windows 7 or Vista ISO # Pen drive with 4GB+ (2 GB is sufficient for XP) # 15 Minutes of free time Procedure: 1. Insert your USB flash/pen drive to your system and backup all the data from the USB as your USB drive will be formatted during the process. 2. Now download WinToFlash tool (free) from here . 3. Run the tool, and browse to your Windows 7, Vista, or XP DVD files (make sure that your USB drive letter is correct). 4. Click Create button to begin the bootable USB process. Wait for few minutes to see the bootable USB. 5. That’s all!

When joining users to the domain. Copying their current profiles to new profiles, this will takes a very long time. There's a way to CHANGE their current local login profile, (without creating a copy as that will take up lots of space and time,) to a domain profile 1. Log onto system. 2. Go to start/run/regedt32 3. Locate key - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList 4. This will show all readable profiles on the machine, it may but probably will not show information leading to the users original profile. 5. Navigate to C:\Documents and Settings\UsersName and note the profile name of the original profile, usually the same minus the domain information. Make a note of it. 6. Now go back to regedit and manually edit the duplicate profile location in the ProfileImagePath key to that of the original e.g: Original - %SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings\jsmith Duplicate - %SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings\jsmith.domain Change the ...

This free tool helps you turn your Windows 7 laptop into a Wi-Fi hotspot and share your connection with others. Connectify is free to use but you have to register before downloading it. Connectify

If you have a netbook and would like to upgrade it to Windows 7, you may be wondering how to do it without a clunky external DVD Drive. Today we show you how to install Windows 7 from a USB flash drive. Installing Windows 7 from a flash drive is essentially the same as installing it from a DVD. Most of the work is setting up your flash drive so it becomes a bootable device with the OS on it. Here we will take a look at a couple of utilities that will allow you to easily create a bootable USB drive and copy Windows 7 to it. Note: You’ll need a minimum of a 4GB flash drive to dedicate to the installation files. Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool If you have an ISO image of Windows 7, using Microsoft’s free utility is a quick and easy option to get the image on your USB flash drive. It requires XP SP2 or higher and if you’re using an XP machine you’ll need .NET Framework 2.0, and Microsoft Image Mastering API V2…both of which can be downloaded from the link below. It seemed to work b...