If you want to customize your Windows XP desktop and add a new, interesting effect, you can make your desktop icons have a background color. You can use the advanced settings of the Appearance menu to ...

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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, ...

Windows XP also became one of the longest-supported and widely used versions of Windows and was one of those rare releases that outlived its successor. This interesting failure was Windows Vista. XP ...

Microsoft ended support for its Windows XP desktop operating system (OS) in April, closing a chapter on one of the most successful products in the company’s history. In technology, I tend to like ...

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 ...

Microsoft may tout Windows 7’s growth curve, but the truth is that Windows XP rules the desktop, and will do so for many years. The most recent report shows that Windows XP has more than twice the ...

In XP, I rename the default desktop icons to remove the "My" prefix. Unfortunately, they have a tendency to revert themselves periodically. I've had this problem off and on with different XP installs.

I connect to my PC at home using the Remote Desktop Web Connection & occasionally I need to be able to re-boot it remotely. I know I have seen scripts to re-boot an XP box, but for the life of me I ...

After some recent columns I received a lot of mail expressing concern that Windows XP's new Remote Desktop feature is somehow an inherent security vulnerability. I happen to be a big fan of Remote ...