Microsoft is warning against a simple hack that enables those still using Windows XP to receive security updates through 2019. The trick involves modifying the system registry, a process that is ...

During the last 12 months, agencies posted nearly 200 solicitations for products compliant with the operating system, which will lose Microsoft's security support on April 8. During the past year, ...

Microsoft executive Jim Allchin eyes the finish line for his massive OS project. But will the market response justify the effort? Charles Cooper was an executive editor at CNET News. He has covered ...

A quick question. Over the weekend my Windows XP system required a reboot and upon rebooting it would just boot to a black screen. Safe mode would only get to the agp440.sys driver before stopping ...

VMware's 3.0 version goes on sale Monday and will allow a Linux "virtual machine" to run on Microsoft's Windows XP system, among other operating system twists. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

Microsoft Veteran Engineer Raymond Chen recently published an interesting blog post explaining why Windows 3.0’s WinHelp was called an online help system when it actually ran offline.

You really, really need to dump Windows XP. No, really. Windows XP was great, and many users still love the operating system, but…it’s more than a decade old. At the rate technology evolves, that ...

Can I fix this? My Windows XP system won’t boot. I get a message that says the file system32configsystem is corrupt or missing. Can I fix this? If you have an Automated System Recovery backup for the ...

I have done a search and found no specific information.<BR><BR>I am trying to access a file share on a Windows XP system from a windows NT 4.0 system. <BR><BR>The user name and password are the same.

See if your Windows 11, 10, 8, 7, Vista, or XP install is 32-bit or 64-bit Not sure if your installed version of Windows is 32-bit or 64-bit? One quick way to tell is by looking at information about ...

You can tell a person’s age by which version of Windows is their favorite. I have fond memories of XP and Windows 98 SE, so you can take a guess at mine, but I have ...