Older systems running Windows XP and 7 are vulnerable to WannaCry and other malware. Protect yourself by modernizing with one of these inexpensive upgrades. Managing Editor Josh Goldman is a laptop ...

Windows XP has a "Safe Mode" feature that works by forcing Windows to load the basic device drivers while ignoring any programs that are supposed to open on startup by default. While this gives you ...

Hibernation in a Windows XP computer is much more than just a basic "sleep mode." Hibernation is a specific process, designed to save everything in memory to the hard drive before shutting down the ...

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 ...