Discover the incredible story of hobbyists and enthusiasts who are keeping Windows XP alive on cutting-edge hardware in 2025. Learn about the challenges and triumphs of running this legacy OS on ...

My friend Lisa has a four-year-old Sony laptop running Windows XP. This machine, once a triumph of Sony hardware engineering, could easily be deemed ready to retire. But after careful ...

Getting from Windows XP to Windows 7 isn't as easy as peasy because Microsoft only built a migration path from Vista to the new operating system. Redmond is pretty much expecting most users to ...

Your computer will soon be more vulnerable to viruses and other malware if it runs Windows XP. That’s because Microsoft is ending support on April 8, 2014, for its 12-year-old operating system ...

My wife is using a long-in-the-tooth Windows XP machine. With the upcoming demise of XP, she needs a new PC. She does mostly genealogy, web browsing, email and general office-type tasks. I am ...

Dear Lifehacker, I have two Dell computers here—one running Windows 2000 and one running Windows XP. The XP machine is old and broken down, so I' ...

Windows XP is a dead operating system. Microsoft no longer supports it, which means that it’s no longer safe to use. But that doesn’t mean an XP-era PC is only good for recycling.

While Windows 7 will be more familiar to XP users than Windows 8.1, it can also be more expensive to get a Windows 7 PC at this point, since they’re less common now and most often found in ...

A Windows XP machine means it’s probably at about 7 years old, since the next popular operating system (Windows 7) debuted in 2009. But there is hope for old computers.

Copies of Windows 8.1 can easily be found at many retailers, including directly from Microsoft.. Users whose computers cannot upgrade to these newer versions of Windows, or those who simply don ...