Q: I have an old Sony VAIO PCV-2220 desktop with Pentium 4 processor 2.60 GHZ and 1.49 GB RAM, and 111 GB hard drive with 56 GB free space. It has Windows XP Home Edition Pack 3. Is it possible to ...

Windows XP users, your favorite operating system is a decade old, and if you’re still using it, you’re not cool anymore, at least according to Microsoft. That’s the software giant’s recent take on its ...

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 ...

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 ...

All your files, apps, and settings are on your old computer. Here’s how to move them to your new Windows PC, from either Windows or macOS. Old PC, new PC. It’s great to get a new computer, but it’s ...

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 ...

I'll never forget how it felt logging into good old Windows XP in my elementary school's computer lab. Maybe some would say XP was "ugly" by today's standards, but I'll always have nostalgia for it, ...

When October 2025 rolls around, your old but still functional Windows 10 PC will no longer receive monthly security updates. And although you have a variety of options, the simplest solution is to ...

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 ...

CNET News' Ina Fried set up two Windows machines over the weekend--one with Windows 7, the other, with the seven-year-old Windows XP. During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried changed beats several ...