At this point, you don’t need a survey to tell you that Windows 7 has been a success. But it’s always nice to have hard data. Thanks to Forrester Research, we’ve got a new Windows 7 survey — two, ...

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 ...

A security firm has found that machines running Windows XP “did not contribute much” to the total number of WannaCry ransomware infections. Leading estimates suggest the ransomware spread to 150 ...

With the Windows end-of-service deadline finally upon us, a lot of holdouts are hurriedly making the upgrade to Windows 7 or 8. Moving all your important files from Windows XP to your new computer may ...

With the release of Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate editions, Microsoft is including a little gift called XP Mode. XP Mode is a virtual machine running Windows XP. I call it a gift since to ...

With Microsoft on the cusp of its next OS leap forward, the 13-year-old XP still is more popular than Windows 8 and 8.1 ...

Virtualization guru Harley Stagner has been turning me on to quite a few tools lately (see last week's column if you need a refresher) and here is one more that I thought I'd pass along. If you want ...

Though it’s now over a decade old, Windows XP remains installed on over a quarter of the world’s PCs, which makes it the second most popular operating system (Windows 7 takes the top slot). Despite ...

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 ...

If you don't use Windows XP's built-in search often (like every day), disabling indexing can significantly speed up your PC. By default Windows XP indexes files on your hard drive and stores them in ...