First and foremost, I don't recommend doing this yourself. I created an isolated virtual machine and used a firewall to prevent it from access the rest of my home network. Then I downloaded malware ...

Windows Virtual PC is a downloadable add-on to Windows 7 Professional, Ultimate, or Enterprise that allows you to run a Windows XP environments from within Windows 7. Windows XP Mode, which requires ...

From Windows Messenger and Outlook Express to MSN, Windows XP used to support a long list of interesting applications. While all these apps were great in their own way, I spent most of my time on my ...

After a version of Windows is released, over time bugs are found or new enhancements are added by Microsoft. In order to fix these bugs and add these new enhancements, Microsoft will occassionally ...

Everyone in the Windows world is sitting on a bit of a time bomb: On July 29, Windows 10 upgrades cease to be free. Let's be clear. While some of you die-hards might not want to move off of Windows XP ...

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 ...

Beyond losing official support from Microsoft, the 13-year-old OS was developed in a simpler time when today's cyberthreats were far in the future. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and ...

The time has come: Microsoft is retiring the much-beloved Windows XP. First expected to die in April of 2009, the Redmond firm gave in to intense pressure from the public to extend its support. With ...

Microsoft gave Windows 7 users a way to run older applications via Windows XP Mode. With Windows 8, however, that mode is no longer officially supported, and if you want to run Windows XP in a virtual ...

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If you grew up in the Windows XP era, than you probably spent hours playing its iconic free game, “3D Pinball Space Cadet.” Now, “Space Cadet” pinball has been ported to Android, and it’s completely ...