Sun VirtualBox is one of the best virtualization software around. Although it has many features, there are some important ones which are missing at the moment, I’m taking about the latest version of VirtualBox, Version 3.1.6. One of the important features for me is the ability to boot a Virtual Machine with a USB stick, [...]
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Guide to Install Windows XP Using USB Stick
May 10th, 2010
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Windows XP is one of the best OS Microsoft ever produced. Even today when Windows 7 has gained popularity many people still prefer using Windows XP. Windows XP takes less resources and mainly many people prefer is as it uses way less RAM and HDD space than the new operating systems (Vista and 7). A [...]
WinToFlash – Make Bootable USB Drive, The Easy Way
September 6th, 2009
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Most of us do not like DVDs or other optical media, they get scratched and need a lot of space to keep. And sometimes the data written on them gets lost for no obvious reason. And writing them is another headache. Saying that USB drives do not have any of these disadvantages, they are small [...]
How to Install Windows 7 using a USB Hard disk
June 15th, 2009
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Earlier I wrote a tutorial on how to install Vista from a USB flash drive, the method given in that post worked for some and did not work for certain drives. Recently I tried to install Windows 7 the same way using a USB Hard disk but it didn’t work. So here’s a tutorial on [...]
How to Boot/Install Vista from a USB Flash drive
April 29th, 2009
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There’s already an article about this on the site but since its not complete I’ll be writing this tutorial on how to create a bootable Vista installation USB flash drive. Requirements A 4GB flash drive (I’ll be using a much lesser one here as I don’t have one) A Vista Installation DVD The bios must [...]
Change the number of processors used to start up your computer
July 25th, 2008
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Please note that to do this your processor must be multi core (Core2 Duo,Quad, dual Core?etc). What this tweak does is speed up the PC bootup time by using multiple processors. 1. In the start menu search area type ?msconfig? and press enter. 2. Now you should see the System Configuration window. and in that [...]
