In the latest 'Building Windows 8' blog post, Microsoft details the challenges it has faced supporting both USB 3.0 and older USB devices in the upcoming OS. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology ...

Windows 8, like its predecessors, makes USB drives accessible via Windows Explorer, or as its now known, File Explorer. The contents of a removable device, however, are typically only available in ...

Running Windows completely off of a USB flash drive is quite handy if you want to try a newer or older version of Windows without affecting your current system. The USB drive can also serve as a ...

If you’ve poked around PC World in recent weeks, you’ve learned how to download and install Windows 8 on a new hard-drive partition and how to install Windows 8 in a virtual machine. Today, let’s talk ...

What do you do, when you want to install or reinstall Windows 8.1 and you have lost your installation media or you don’t have it at all. Microsoft has come to the rescue! Microsoft now provides an ...