Daily Archives: February 25, 2011

Microsoft, Tech, Uncategorized, Windows 7

[How to] Install Windows 7, XP using USB

Now that people are rushing towards installing Windows 7, here’s something that will increases speed of Installation.

How many times you lost your patience while burning DVD/CD for each installation? You don’t need to do that.

The Era of silly DVD/ CD is totally phased out, and will be replaced by BluRay Drives in the near future.

So, What is the best and the Fastest way of installation?
Its USB drive! (Flash or External HDD). Here’s what you need to do. It’s simple but don’t make any blunders.

UPDATE: This guide has been updated to support all windows Installations.

Method1: Using WinToFlash (Easier)

Step 1. download WinToFlash from here and unzip.

Mount the Windows installation image (using PowerISO) or if you have installation DVD/CD, then well and good.

Step 2. Run the exe

Step 3. Select the source and target drive and hit next.

There you go, it`ll finish up automatically with a bootable USB.

 


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Reboot into BIOS. Change settings to Enable “Boot from USB”, and give it the highest precedence. Save settings and reboot, You would reboot into installation.

Method 2: via inbuilt DiskPart (Harder) Try this only if you have problems with Method 1

Step 1. Preparing USB drive

Open command prompt, from Start > run > cmd. If you are on vista or Windows 7, you might need to run it as elevated administrator. You can do this by creating shortcut to “cmd” on desktop then right click > “Run as Administrator”.

Enter following commands –

> Diskpart

DISKPART> LIST DISK

Disk ###  Status         Size     Free     Dyn  Gpt
——–  ————-  ——-  ——-  —  —
Disk 0    Online           93 GB    13 MB
Disk 1    Online           8 GB    6 MB

Note down the number corresponding Disk number. 1 in my case

DISKPART> SELECT DISK 1

>CLEAN
>CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
>SELECT PARTITION 1     – This 1 remains same always.
>ACTIVE
>FORMAT FS=FAT32
>ASSIGN
>EXIT

Step 2. Copy Installed CD/DVD contents to USB drive

> xcopy e:\*.* /s/e/f f:\

where e:\ is your source DVD drive, f:\ is target USB drive

Step 3.Changing BIOS Settings

Reboot into BIOS. Change settings to Enable “Boot from USB”, and give it the highest precedence. Save settings and reboot, You would reboot into installation.

Microsoft, Tech, Windows 7, Xbox

Prevent, Fix Windows Explorer Crashes

Windows 7 has sold more than 30 Million copies, as per Microsoft. Its evident that it had been a big success bringing great improvements over windows XP.

Glitches would never go away till it’s a software. And they can be annoying at times, but there are ways you can minimize the annoyances and prevent havocs. One such problem is with Windows Explorer who like to act weird with its “Windows Explorer has stopped responding” “Windows explorer has misbehaved and needs to be closed”, blah blah.

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You can always force close it but The Explorer process runs a lot of important things in Windows, and when it crashes, it can really slow you down.

But there is a solution to minimize the damage by sandboxing its process, so that when next time one crashes, others don’t in the fission.

The Solution to windows Explorer crashes

Windows Folder options actually let you create a separate process for the taskbar and desktop from the other open Explorer windows in two different explorer.exe processes (that you see in task manager). This comes handy when one of them crashes.

HowTo: Go to any Windows Explorer (say my computer), Alt+T  > Tools > Folder Options > View > “Launch Folder Windows in a Separate Process”.

windows-7-explorer-crash

If you look more closely, its something that powers Google Chrome browser, new process for every Tab. Instead, there are just two processes. Of course it would be slightly more CPU intensive, but that’s definitely worth it.

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