Windows 7 Upgrade for cheap

Posted on June 26th, 2009 at 07:35am  |  10 comments

There’s a preorder for Window 7 going on right now. $50 for Home Premium and it sounds like you can do a clean install to upgrade straight from XP to 7. I’ve been really impressed with it so far and I’m ready to upgrade all of my machines. The regular upgrade price is suppose to [...]

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Hello from Windows 7

Posted on January 17th, 2009 at 12:04am  |  5 comments

Shrunk one of my partitions and installed the 64-bit Windows 7 beta on my main machine. Popped in the burned install DVD, hit Shift+F10 to bring up the console and then used the DISKPART utility to SHRINK an existing partition down. The install process requires almost zero user input and in about 15 minutes you’re [...]

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