Windows 7/8/10 – How to Delete Files Protected by TrustedInstaller It’s quite a few steps but it works Did you know that a lot of files in Windows are not owned by you, even if you are the Administrator? They are instead owned by an entity called the “Trusted Installer”. Such a wonderful sounding name eh! So that’s not a problem most of the time, unless you need to delete certain system files and folders....

Fix “Windows is unable to install to the selected location” in Windows 7 or Vista An interesting problem with a few solutions So while playing around with Windows 7 and installing it on various computers, I ran across an interesting error message that you might also see: Or you may also see this associated message when trying to select a disk to install Windows 7 to: In this type of case, there could be several reasons for your issue....

Windows Features On or Off Dialog is Empty in Windows 7 or Vista It’s not nice when the box is blank If you’ve recently upgraded to Windows 7 or did a clean install of Windows 7, the first thing you’ll want to do is run Windows Update to download the latest security patches and fixes. However, you may also get an error message with the following error code below: 0x80073712...

How to Enable System Restore in Windows 7 A way to undo system changes without affecting personal files Before you install more programs and drivers on your newly installed Windows 7 PC, make sure you have System Protection enabled. System protection is a feature that regularly creates and saves information about your computer’s system files and registry. System protection also saves previous versions of files that you’ve modified. It saves these files in restore points, which are created just before significant system events, such as the installation of a program or device driver....

How to Uninstall Windows 7 From a PC that already had XP or Vista With the release of Windows 7, there will be those people who still will want to revert back to Vista or XP for some reason or another. If you want to uninstall Windows 7 and go back to the previous OS, you may or may not be able to do so. In this post, I will break down all the options and scenarios for uninstalling Windows 7 from a computer that already had an operating system, such as Windows XP or Vista....