The Windows XP installation CD-ROM includes recovery options on it. When booting from the CD-ROM you can access the recovery console to repair corrupted boot files and scan the hard drive for any ...

Ensure you'll never accidentally get locked out of your PC: create a password recovery disk for Windows XP. XP is the most secure of all Windows versions. However, if you have one Administrative ...

If your office is running older Windows XP workstations, you might no longer have the original installation media. Murphy's law dictates that one of those computers will develop serious operating ...

Windows XP Recovery will then prompt you to scan your computer, which will then find a variety of errors that it states it cannot fix until you purchase the program. When you use the so-called ...

THERE’S A CERTAIN magical quality to the operating system that comes with some PCs. It’s there, but it’s not there. For several years now we’ve been airing reader gripes about the shortcomings of the ...

Jimmie Bates wants to know if he should ever update his Windows recovery disk. I checked with Microsoft to get the full story, and here’s what I found out. Windows 8 and 10 have a built-in tool to ...

I figured this would be the best place to post, as the initial part of my problem relates to DD. Someone re-installed XP, and formatted the drive in the process. I'm hoping I can make an image with dd ...

https://www.pcworld.com/tags/Microsoft+Corporation.html will provide hardware partners with media to let their customers downgrade from https://www.pcworld.com/tags ...

Microsoft will provide hardware partners with media to let their customers downgrade from Windows Vista to Windows XP for six months longer than it originally planned, the company confirmed Friday.