With Windows 98 being phased out and Microsoft ending support for it, now is the time to upgrade your organization's clients, if you haven't done so already. When you do decide to upgrade your ...

Hi. I'm a new Ars member with a new computer and a possibly old problem. I had just bought a Dell Dimension 8200 with Windows 2000. I got Windows 2000 for two reasons: (1) I believe it was cheaper to ...

Okay, I have too much time on my hands. I'm going to be posting here as I work on this project, trying to get Windows XP Home Edition running on a 486-based computer. Here's how this all began: My ...

Learn how you can increase the speed of WinXP without defrag, increase capacity to improve the performance of WinXP and why upgrading to Windows 7 may not be as easy as you think. While Windows 7 has ...

The backwards compatibility of new operating systems has been a constant thorn in Microsoft's side. With Vista, the compatibility problems at launch were so great it never really stood a chance of ...

Windows XP isn't safe for daily use in 2024 due to lack of updates and security risks. If you choose to run XP, keep it isolated and secure by limiting network access and using up-to-date antivirus ...

Microsoft is gearing up to release Windows 11 this fall, and it will bring the biggest changes to the company’s desktop operating system since Windows 10 was released in 2015. But thanks to new ...

Twenty years on from the public release of Windows XP, the popular operating system is still regarded one of Microsoft’s greatest achievements. As of August this year, Windows XP still maintained a ...

GUI matters: Microsoft released the original edition of Windows XP in 2001 and kept the operating system alive for more than 17 years. The once massively popular platform remains fondly remembered, ...

Fed up with Microsoft bloating Notepad? An Ex-Microsoft engineer has shrunk it down to 2.5KB somehow.

I bet you never imagined you might one day run Windows XP on an iPhone or iPad. But thanks to a brilliant app called UTM, it’s not only possible, but it is incredibly easy. You don’t even need to ...