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How To: Download and store Windows 7 updates

This workshop uses a free tool for downloading and storing Windows 7 updates that can be used for updating your operating system every time you reinstall it.

October 05, 2012 / 09:35 IST
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Most users who have been using Microsoft Windows will agree that a virus, corrupted software or crashed hardware can ruin your operating system within minutes. Restoring the entire system again means taking complete backups, formatting the hard drive, reinstalling the operating system, installing an antivirus, reinstalling all software and then restoring all the data. Not to forget, updating the operating system from the Internet is an effort to the hard work you have already put in. This is definitely tedious and takes a lot of time, but there is no alternative unless you employ a utility that will take a complete screenshot of the working system and back up the entire drive on another medium or drive. Using these utilities will save you a lot of time and all the effort that go into it. What about those who did not take a backup of the working operating system? Click here for full story

first published: Oct 5, 2012 09:29 am

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