legacy devices

Few security challenges expose both the evolving sophistication of cybercriminal tactics and the unintended weaknesses of enterprise cloud platforms as starkly as the recent abuse of Microsoft 365’s “Direct Send” feature. In a rapidly intensifying phishing campaign discovered in May 2025, threat...

As Microsoft approaches the official end-of-support phase for Windows 10, users, enterprises, and IT administrators are bracing for a wave of changes impacting how they work and secure their devices. Amid a flurry of announcements, policy updates, and user anxieties about shifting to Windows 11...

As the sun begins to set on Windows 10, organizations and individuals alike face a critical crossroads in their technology journey. When Microsoft announced that Windows 10 would be the "last version" of Windows, many believed the constant cycle of upgrades and looming end-of-service deadlines...

In an era where the convergence of operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) has reshaped industrial connectivity, vulnerabilities in industrial control systems (ICS) represent not just technical challenges but existential risks to critical infrastructures. Recent disclosures...

If you are the kind of person who thinks “customer support” means being serenaded by a loop of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons piped through your phone while you question your life choices, then the world of computing has a special treat for you: Reader Support columns! Nestled between rants about...

It probably wasn’t on your 2025 bingo card to revisit a discontinued home automation relic threatened by remote hackers with a penchant for credential snatching, but here we are: the Schneider Electric Wiser Home Controller WHC-5918A is back in the limelight—and not for a firmware upgrade. If...

I have a Windows tablet with a Clover Trail processor that came with 8 Pro. Back in the days of the free upgrade I switched to Windows 10. Wanting to clean things up I did a reset to factory settings. Now trying to reinstall Windows 10 I get an error saying my processor isn't supported. Doing...

Here's the thing: I have a two InterAct DexDrive's (one PlayStation, the other Nintendo 64). I have two PC's (one connected to the PlayStation DexDrive on COM1, the other connected to the Nintendo 64 DexDrive on COM1), both using Link Removed motherboards. They both hook up to my PC's via...

I have a Roland CDR-II drive which was purchased several years ago as a stand alone device. I have been unable to locate the drivers required to make this device functional. This device uses a db25 to usb adaptor. It appears Win 7 is incapable of handling this situation. This cd drive was...

I have a Kensington Trackball (the original grey square 4 button model) which works great and which I absolutely love. I have had it about 10 years now and it still works perfectly fine. Kensington got a lot of grief (and rightly so) for not providing driver support when migrating it from...

Scanner, that is. The old one won't install and the 1640SU aapears not to be on the Windows 7 list of devices.

OK, I doubt this will have a solution that isn't really traumatic. But oh well. I was having a problem with some devices that were supposed to be 100% fully compatible with Vista Home Premium on My Dell Inspiron Desktop. Namely a SONY Camcorder that was being incorrectly identified and hence...

I have an older SB Live! 5.1 card (model SB0060) and couldn't get the sound to work. Ran the driver in compatibility mode for WinXP SP3, and as admin, and it installed fine, when I played music the lvels were going up/down... but no sound from my speakers (and yes, everything connected just...

The following is an instruction on how to have some semblance of a Power Management group policy in an environment operating under Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. Unfortunately, the Power Management options in XP, as opposed to Vista, are stored in binary files, thereby making it difficult...