Windows Vista won't be available until early next year, but current XP users drooling over Vista's new Aero theme and utilities, such as sidebars and widgets, don't have to wait for Microsoft to ship ...

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 ...

okay I run a linux 2.4.20 firewall/router on the front end of my home network. I use windows XP's remote desktop extensively to access my XP workstation from outside my network. Right now, I have the ...

If you want to customize your Windows XP desktop and add a new, interesting effect, you can make your desktop icons have a background color. You can use the advanced settings of the Appearance menu to ...

Upgrading to Windows 7 from Windows XP has been impossible -- until now. Parallels has announced a piece of software that lets users upgrade from any version of XP or Vista to the latest Windows OS, ...

As you know, desktop security has become a constant battle. There are no clear victories, only the ongoing triumph of a smoothly-operating computer. The Internet today is awash with viruses, trojans, ...

First, let me say that I don't have the PC on which this is occurring yet. I will be working on it in the next couple of days, but I want to have some troubleshooting ideas when I go in. I won't be ...

Windows XP has been extremely successful; market research firm IDC estimates that Windows XP (Home and Pro) had a worldwide installed base of 538 million copies at the end of 2006. As long as those XP ...

PC makers that choose to ship Windows XP with icons on the desktop will have to include at least three Microsoft-mandated icons, the company said. News of the requirement that PC makers include an MSN ...

Both Windows 8.1 and 7 are snagging more Web traffic, says Net Applications, while XP is grabbing less. Might this be related to the free upgrade to Windows 10? Lance Whitney is a freelance technology ...

When you spend hours at your computer every day, the slightest unexpected change on your desktop can throw you off balance. The blue highlighting of desktop icons can happen accidentally in Windows XP ...

In my last blog "Could Desktop Linux really be so slow?" I posted some interesting performance numbers of how a mainstream desktop Linux distribution like Linspire performed on a $100 PC. The ...