When installing Windows on an old or new PC, you can either format the C drive and then install or delete old Windows files and then install. In both cases, Windows will install and overwrite any file ...

Microsoft has published a blog post detailing an interesting disk space saving technique which can be used with the new Windows 8.1 Update released earlier this week. If Windows is deployed using this ...

Microsoft just made it feasible to install Windows on a small capacity solid state drive (SSD) or hard drive with not much space left. Using a new deployment option called Windows Image Boot, or ...

Archive and Install can recover large amounts of drive space MacFixIt reader David Oshel reports that a recent archive and install process recovered an inordinately large amount of hard drive space -- ...

Last week, Microsoft announced the immediate availability of the Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor Beta, which it bills as “a small beta application that you can run on your current Windows XP-based ...

Good news everyone, the Fall Creators Update for Windows 10 is finally here. It brings with it a whole bunch of new features and improvements to various parts of the Windows 10 experience (including a ...

The latest Windows 10 Insider build, number 18312, introduces a new feature wherein the operating system reserves a big old chunk of disk space, effectively expanding its on-disk footprint by another ...

In the comments on my recent posts about installing Linux on a netbook for a novice user (see my recommendations and my own results), someone mentioned that figuring out the disk partitioning was very ...