You have it way easier these days, but back in the day, when you wanted to play a game on your PC, you had to take a similar ...

Someone gave Shilissa Stimpson an old Windows XP PC. She asked what she can do with it. Windows XP is a dead operating system. Microsoft no longer supports it, which means that it’s no longer safe to ...

Microsoft ended support for Windows XP a year ago, but that hasn't stopped nearly two out of every 10 Windows users from clinging to the legacy operating system, according to data collected by Net ...

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 ...

Q: I saw your recent response about Microsoft ending support for Windows XP. I agree with your concern about sending older computers to the landfills (hopefully, recycled instead). I was wondering if ...

How old is too old? I had a chance to think about this question twice over the weekend. Once while pondering my fifty-somethingth birthday (as of today, I am the same age as Saturday Night Live and ...

Many of you did not upgrade from Windows XP to Windows Vista, but are planning to upgrade to Windows 7. How dare you leave the Microsoft upgrade path? As a punishment, you can't upgrade directly from ...

No longer supported by Microsoft, Windows XP is vulnerable to security threats and can’t be freely and easily updated to Windows 10. Those who are happy to live online, though, now have a free and ...

Microsoft may have given up on Windows XP, but that doesn’t mean you have to. While there’s plenty of life in the old operating system, there’s also a good chance XP may start looking long in the ...

Dan Ackerman leads CNET's coverage of computers and gaming hardware. A New York native and former radio DJ, he's also a regular TV talking head and the author of "The Tetris Effect" ...

As Microsoft charges ahead toward delivering Office XP by midyear, it is falling a bit behind on meeting its Windows XP targets, according to testers. Although it is common for software companies to ...