Whether you're doing a fresh installation of Windows 7 or formating your hard drive to reinstall Windows XP from scratch, a separate data partition comes in handy.

One of the dreaded tasks of getting a new PC or laptop is updating the shiny new machine with existing contacts, pictures, and files from that old and aging PC running Windows XP. In this quick guide ...

The free tool copies all the files and settings from your Windows XP PC to a new device running Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 8.1. I'm PCMag's managing editor for consumer electronics, overseeing ...

Windows Vista changes all this with a new bundled application called Windows Easy Transfer that can easily migrate data from Windows XP SP2, Windows 2000 SP4, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows ...

Upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7 To do this, you must first copy files to a removable media, such as an external hard drive or UFD, or to a network share, using Windows Easy Transfer.

I am having issues with a machine that is synching offline files to a network share during shutdown. The messages I get are "Synchronization complete", "Errors occurred while Windows was synchronizing ...

tutorial Windows File Protection (WFP) can prevent third-party applications from overwriting system files. Learn how to employ WFP in Windows XP.

How did things get this messed up? Windows has slowed to a crawl. Programs won’t run. The free firewall you installed last year won’t update or uninstall itself. System Restore hasn’t helped; neither ...

Recently, my son lost all his personal documents (photos, video, Office files, etc) on re-installing Windows XP. Have any of you had experience with (or could you recommend) an off-the-shelf data ...

I have to admit I am very frustrated by this since I can do it with my eyes closed in NT/2000/XP, but add 98 and I am clueless.I need to transfer files from a Windows 98 machine to a Windows XP ...

Symantec said retailers running Windows XP-based POS terminals will soon face an increased attack risk.