Dear Lifehacker, I have an old laptop running Windows XP, and I love it. I've upgraded my other machines to Windows 7 and 8, but this laptop is too old to do so.

When upgrading his XP desktops to Windows 7, Babbage ran both operating systems side by side for several months until he was happy with the result. He did the same when moving a couple of old ...

Of course, you could upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 10, ... If you decide the end has come for your old Windows XP PC, make sure you dispose of it carefully and responsibly.

Microsoft support for Windows XP stops Tuesday. If you're still using the 12-year-old operating system — an estimated quarter of PC users still run XP — here are some tips to get through an ...

Businesses have dragged their feet on upgrading from the ten-year-old Windows XP to newer versions of Microsoft’s operating system. First, they skipped Windows Vista en masse after the OS was ...

A further 300m users have stuck with other versions—half of them stubbornly (and rashly) clinging to 16-year-old Windows XP that Microsoft pensioned off three years ago. The business world has ...

Old versions of Windows just won't go away. Earlier this week Microsoft ended its support for Vista, which means the decade-old operating system will no longer get security updates. And while this ...

My friend Lisa has a four-year-old Sony laptop running Windows XP. This machine, once a triumph of Sony hardware engineering, could easily be deemed ready to retire. But after careful ...

Reader Thomas is having a problem with his six-year-old Windows XP Professional system: When he plugs in a flash drive, Windows doesn’t recognize it. He’s tried different brands; same result.

With Microsoft on the cusp of its next OS leap forward, the 13-year-old XP still is more popular than Windows 8 and 8.1 combined. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a ...

Michael MJD gets Windows XP running on a touchscreen MacBook from 2011. The process involved overcoming hardware compatibility and driver issues. Michael eventually succeeded, showcasing Windows ...