Windows XP

I mean as a collection or something, like some ppl keep old motorcycles and old cars in their garages even though they can afford new ones?

Hello Tom's Hardware Community! My Dad has an old IBM Thinkpad Laptop running Windows XP. In the past months, the screen would just randomly black out (and stay black). But, while annoying, just closing the computer and waiting for it to go to sleep and opening it back up would make it work...

Previously i was using xp which got virus and half of my whole hard disk of different drives became empty. then i formatted C: and installed windows 7 ultimate 32bit. after about its 1 week, D: drive got access denied. permission was of full control so i did chkdsk. yes, it worked and later...

How can I view my laptop monitor and tv screen at the same time, to watch the same page, ( tv connected by vga cable. ) Thanks

I was given a Dell Latitude D600 by a family friend who was going to trash it because it will not power on, however when you plug it in using the power chord, the green battery light and others come on as if its charging or something is happening but when you hold down the power button for any...

Having issues attempting to repair an old dell laptop. Inspiron Mini 10. The first issues arose after receiving an alleged update to Firefox..They manifested themselves in an error when attempting to launch MFF. That is to say, it wouldn't start. It said the runtime was not found. I then...

I want to convert my xolo android tab into windows xp

I have an older dell vostros 1700 running xp with a core 2 duo and 2 gigs of ddr2 and was looking for a decent game to play and ran upon syberia 2 on orgin and was curious how well the system will run it

toshiba satellite running xp can see the network but will not connect to it

Hi, I know it's very old laptop with dual core, 1 gb of ram ddr2, and integrated graphics, small hdd, but for some peoples it will be good, for browsing internet, watch movies online, listen music, check fb, and etc. simply tasks. I will think reinstall xp, but I see it have more and more...

So I just built a water cooled pc with the new titan xp, 6950x, rgb trident z and we got all of our tubes bent tubes fit in the fittings and everything turns on except for the top portion of the ram. The bottom portion turns on perfect, also, when we plug it in, nothing happens. The boot menu...

I am looking for opinions. My little ASUS Eee PC 900 series notebook is running xp. Because xp is no longer supported, I was just wondering if anyone has upgraded to win 7? Is this at all possible?? Thank you.

looking to factory reset, what would be needed to update to newest version of windows?

Is anyone else having issues with the newest version of avast free version 17.2.2288 (build 17.2.34190)? I'm using this on a legacy XP SP3 computer. Anytime I create/copy/move a file onto a network share, it will lock the file and make it inaccessable to programs. I've tried this on network...

I have ThinkPad IBM I have a LG K7 phone. I can't get my ThinkPad to hook up to my LG K7 phone it says my USB my Hotspot is active but my ThinkPad isn't reading it accepting it now I'm a newbie any help would be greatly appreciated it says something about a driver but how do I get a driver on my...

Can i change Graphics Card or install 3DFX driver in Windows XP in VMware Workstation? I have nGlide but i want to know if is possible to install Voodoo driver like in PCem and DOSBox.

I have a Toshiba satellite laptop M35x-S149 running win xp pro. I install Windows XP Pro I noticed that it was missing a lot of the drivers the ethernet controller video controller Excetra.. I found and downloaded them with my flashdrive and they now seem to be working fine. I'm showing internet...

This question was address several times over the years, but I could find no recent solution, and with Win 10 in full swing, the situation has changed. I would like to use XP Mode but it's not available for Win 7 Home Premium. I have a Win 7 Home premium pc and have been running into problems...

i found a old advent laptop on xp i formatted and installed vista it wont work can anyone tell how to install an os?

hey guys i have a windows xp toshiba satellite m70 131, i have been trying to boot it to windows 7 but it doesnt work even i set boot order properly and now a second problem appears "UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME" is there a solution to this?