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On October 22, Microsoft pulled the plug on sales of Windows XP, ending the operating system's spectacular nine-year run.
With no new copies being sold, support for XP will start to decline. Fortunately, XP's long run has produced a ton of collected wisdom: everything you need to keep your copy going strong and — when ready — to help you move on.
The end of XP is a watershed moment. It's truly the most successful operating system in the history of personal computers. Windows 3.x was great in its day; it gave mass-market, affordable PCs the graphical prowess Microsoft needed to compete with the more expensive Macintosh computers. But it lasted only five years,...
On Windows XP and 2000 click start, right click on my computer and click properties, a window will appear, here you must click on the tab titled “system
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If companies switch 1% of their PCs from XP to Windows 7 each month, Windows 7 could be the market leader by the end of next year.
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Be warned again: unlike the Windows XP to Windows 7 upgrade originally performed, this clean Windows XP installation will erase the laptop hard disk, |
Follow these tips to deal with an XP system that won't recognize flash drives, restore an XP backup in Windows 7, and solve IE script errors in Windows XP.
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But a just-released report from Forrester shows that Windows XP still rules the business world, where it beats Windows 7 by a margin of 7.5 to one.
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Gadgetwise Blog: Q&A: Taking the Upgrade Leap From Windows XP to Windows 7 
Q&A: Taking the Upgrade Leap From Windows XP to Windows 7 - New York Times (blog) 
Q&A: Taking the Upgrade Leap From Windows XP to Windows 7 
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