Microsoft may have sent Windows XP off into the great unknown in 2014, but the operating system never fully went dark. Never mind that yet two more versions of Windows have been put to rest since XP’s ...

Is there any know problems with windows XP<BR>handling of serial ports or drivers?<BR>We had a toshiba PIII laptop with ME that had a belkin F5U003 USB to serial adapter that worked<BR>fine. Tried it ...

Software crackers have reportedly developed a technique that bypasses the complex anti-piracy system protecting Microsoft’s new operating system Windows XP. Engineers at a UK computer security company ...

The Windows XP activation algorithm has been cracked offline using Linux, The Register reports. According to a blog post on Tinyapps, a site that catalogs tiny software made for Windows, the crack ...

It has never been too hard for someone with the right amount of time, desperation, or flexible scruples to get around Windows XP’s activation scheme. And yet XP activation, the actual encrypted ...

Over at The Seattle Times, you can read a long feature I wrote about installing Windows XP Service Pack 2 in three ways on an Intel iMac: with Boot Camp, via Parallels, and using Q. Most of this ...

While I think it’s fair to say that USB devices are generally easier to configure and less prone to problems than their serial- and parallel-based ancestors, problems can still occur. When USB devices ...