Short story: Replaced the MB and tried a repair install of XP. The old XP install is there, the machine attempts to boot if I let it (but of course fails), yet setup cannot detect the old install to ...

I know Windows XP is about to expire and that I have to upgrade my business computers, but I hate Windows 8. I also have an older custom program and the company that wrote it is out of business. What ...

Need – or prefer – an EOL version of Windows? Don't panic! Legacy Update is a third-party Windows Update client which can update old, unsupported versions of Windows, from Windows 10 and 11 all the ...

NEW YORK - Microsoft retires its 12-year-old Windows XP operating system today. Even so, there are still millions of XP computers out there. Here's what to do if you own one of them: What happens ...

Ever wanted to run Windows XP on old hardware? Well, you might have done a couple of decades ago, when Windows XP was released - but probably not now, right? Despite the apparently futility of the ...

With Microsoft on the cusp of its next OS leap forward, the 13-year-old XP still is more popular than Windows 8 and 8.1 combined. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a ...

Microsoft yesterday added ammunition to its increasingly aggressive battle to get users off the nearly-11-year-old Windows XP by citing a company-sponsored report that claims annual support costs for ...

Today I tried to make a S3 Virge PCI card work as a second displaycard in Windows XP. The card works just fine except for the fact that Windows cpmpletely locks up after a minute. Cause of the problem ...

Sorry, Microsoft, but millions of users will keep their Windows XP systems, even after the OS is 'retired' next year Microsoft can throw its Windows XP retirement ...

Maybe people are actually starting to tire of Microsoft’s eight-year-old Windows XP. According to Web measurement company Net Applications, which tracks the operating systems used by a pool of about ...