David's Tech Talk

Use Rufus to create bootable USB media If you too are one such user looking for a solution, you can stop looking and try Rufus , an open source tool to create a bootable USB drive from any bootable ISO. Rufus is small in size (nearly 615 KB) and claims to be faster at creating bootable USB drives than most applications of its type. Rufus is also portable which means that you need not install this software to use it. Just double click on the executable file and the application will start working. Rufus also allows you to add fixes to use your bootable flash drives on older computers having BIOSs which do not support booting from them. Strangely however, Rufus can only create bootable flash drives from ISOs meaning you need to have an ISO image of the CD or DVD of the OS of your choice. I do not think this should be too much of a problem considering how easy it is to create ISOs from DVDs and CDs. How to use Rufus? 1) When you start Rufus, the first option that you will see...

There are different ways in which you can get into the Safe Mode in Windows. They depend on the version of Windows you are using. In this Blog: Steps for Windows 10, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 users Steps for Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP and previous versions Force Windows to start in Safe mode Which Safe Mode option should you choose? Windows 10, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 The F8 key method does not work on Windows 10, Windows 8 and 8.1. Hence, getting onto Safe Mode requires the following steps:- If your PC is working properly: 1) On the Windows Start Screen/Menu, type Advanced . 2) Click on Advanced startup options . 3) Under the Advanced Startup heading at the bottom of the General Settings screen, click on Restart now. 4) Your computer will restart and you will be taken to the Advanced Startup Options menu. To easily reach this menu, on Windows start screen, you could choose restart while holding the Shift key. 5) Click on Troubleshoot and then on the...