I found Q4OS while trying to help my neighbor get off their Windows XP machine. But why Q4OS? Because it offered a similar interface (with the Q4XP theme pack), ran incredibly well on their old ...

Not afaik. It should be a nondestructive test to conduct (I don't have a Windows XP system to play with, and haven't had for years). I tried it, it won't boot. Yes, XP, really. It's for retro games, ...

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 ...

If you want your computer to work as well as it can and avoid privacy or security risks, sticking to an original Windows installation is your only option. However, some Windows modifications are ...

Is your older computer a ticking time bomb? A new article in PC Pro warns that computers running Windows XP are about to become exactly that, with the operating system’s 2014 support deadline likely ...

Return with me to the Glory Days of Windows XP, which apparently some people, somehow, are still using even though support for it ended in...2014. I don’t know whether to be amazed or horrified at how ...

This weekend, I loaded fresh copies of Windows onto two PCs. Like many people, I downloaded the Windows 7 Beta and installed it. But that wasn't the only PC task I had over the weekend. I had an old ...

QUESTION: I've grown comfortable with the look and feel of Microsoft's Outlook Express e-mail program on my nine-year-old Windows XP computer. But my new Windows 7 PC doesn't have it, and I've got 700 ...