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, ...

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 ...

Once desktop virtualization scenarios take hold, the choices for desktop operating system will be opened up a bit more, experts say. For example, in a VDI scenario, the actual client computer can use ...

My move from a Windows XP to a Mandrake 8.2 desktop<BR><BR>defined variables:<BR>XP: MS Windows XP<BR>uyen: my girlfriend<BR><BR>I've never really used Linux before. I understand a couple very ...

Editor’s Note: PCWorld originally published this story in 2014. This year, 2021, marks the 20th anniversary of Charles O’Rear’s iconic photo in 1996, which became the basis of the Windows XP desktop ...

I'm reinstalling Windows XP on a Dell desktop. I get to the point where it says it's installing devices; then, it hangs at 37 minutes. The blurbs to the right rotates through its usual pages.