One of the dreaded tasks of getting a new PC or laptop is updating the shiny new machine with existing contacts, pictures, and files from that old and aging PC running Windows XP. In this quick guide ...

Recently, my son lost all his personal documents (photos, video, Office files, etc) on re-installing Windows XP. Have any of you had experience with (or could you recommend) an off-the-shelf data ...

The free tool copies all the files and settings from your Windows XP PC to a new device running Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 8.1. I'm PCMag's managing editor for consumer electronics, overseeing ...

I am having issues with a machine that is synching offline files to a network share during shutdown. The messages I get are "Synchronization complete", "Errors occurred while Windows was synchronizing ...

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 ...

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 ...

I guess there are already threads dedicated to this subject - which files and folders you can safely delete from a Windows XP partition without having any problem. Unfortunately I cant'd find them, so ...

French security researcher Adrien Guinet has figured out a way to decrypt files locked by the infamous WannaCry ransomware. Guinet has published a free tool, dubbed Wannakey, that retrieves the ...

You are not alone if you still use Windows XP, an operating system that came before Windows 7. W3Schools.com's log files report that over 19 percent of all site visitors used Windows XP as their ...