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Install Windows 7 from a flash drive – Free Tool

March 12, 2010
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Last year I wrote an article about how to install Windows 7 from a USB flash drive. This can come in handy when you want to reload a netbook that has no built in CD / DVD Drive My friend Matt showed me an easier way to do this. If you have your install disk [...]

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Get Windows Update on a DVD

September 16, 2009

I was reading an article at PCMag about PatchMateXP. They have had all the patches for XP on one convenient CD. Unfortunately for PatchMateXP, this breaks a license with Microsoft and they shut themselves down before they got into legal trouble. This got me thinking – is there a way to get MS Updates on [...]

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Burn DVDs and CDs from the command line

August 28, 2009

I was installing the Windows 2003 Resource Kit today, and I ran across these two command line programs that come with it: cdburn.exedvdburn.exe I started poking around, and I realized they both could be used to burn ISO files from the command line. For a test, I downloaded a random ISO from MSDN, and gave [...]

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