windows xp

Hi Everyone You may have already seen two previous threads from me about attempting to move a program from a Vista machine to an XP machine. I have now finally managed to get all the DLLs sorted out. The Ordinal 344 error was because I accidentally copied the wrong version of a DLL over...

Hi Everyone I have just moved a program from a Windows Vista machine to a Windows XP machine and as a result I am getting the following error: "The ordinal 344 could not be located in the dynamic link library comctl32.dll" Does anyone know of a hack using a hex editor for sorting out this...

Hello guys...! We use various OS such as Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8 in our office. In the beginning there's no networking problem, Windows XP can access to higher Windows, and Windows 7/8 can access Windows XP. Everything's fine until installing windows update MS17-010 on last Monday for...

I have an old Windows XP computer that has been getting updates regularly, so I am not worried about it being hacked. But after reinstalling XP, it can only access the Internet via a wireless adapter, not via an ethernet connection. And when I plug the ethernet cable into the computer, there is...

As of recently, there was a widespread ransomware worm attack on computers worldwide due to an exploit in windows servers (im not going to go in depth) and basically the best protection now is to install the latest update from windows that fixes that exploit to prevent attacks. I have...

If you haven't run the WU unit or been visiting the moon recently then these updates will help with the current nasties out there in the ether.. 'Users who are running supported versions of the operating system (Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8.1...

Microsoft solution available to protect additional products Today many of our customers around the world and the critical systems they depend on were victims of malicious “WannaCrypt” software. Seeing businesses and individuals affected by cyberattacks, such as the ones reported today, was...

The security updates for Vista are also for Windows Server 2008. Windows Server 2008 will continue to get those updates until 2020 (edit: this is incorrect as Neemobeer points out below). You can make a simple registry change in Windows XP so that windows updates thinks it is Windows POS Ready...

Hello I bought a second-hand Asus EeePC 1001PXD which sports an Atom N455 processor and 2GB RAM. While Linux had multiple issues, XP worked right away. However, as XP is no longer supported, I was wondering how Windows 7 would run on that hardware, either Home or Ultimate. Thank you.

If I want to create a Windows Credential entry to allow automatic access to another machine on my local network (XP and W2K machines), it requires me to enter the target's IP address (as well as username/password). This is all well and good so long as I assign static addresses to those machines...

So, I decided to downgrade from Windows 7 to XP Pro on my Acer Aspire 5736Z-4460 because it'd freeze up constantly while I was using it. XP doesn't have that problem. But when I switched to XP, I had to look for the wireless / Wi-Fi drivers for it. I tried every driver I could find and they'd...

Hi This is not a Piracy issue. We use a Legacy software a 16 years old database that is no longer available and not made by MS, on Win XP We use an 'add-on' with the database that was $20 sadly the developer of the 'add-on' has passed away about 4 years ago and the business no longer exists...

I have an xp machine with a new install on a 1T drive. Now I think I should have had a system partition so's I have the option of reformatting and installing another OS on there - without destroying all my data. Win10 has a shrink partition ability that leaves used portions of a drive...

*I am not sure if this is the right spot for this* Hello. I have a laptop with an SSD and a hard drive. I already have windows 10 installed on the ssd and I want windows XP on there as well. First of all, how much space does windows XP need? I have about 100gb of space on the ssd for XP. Is...

I have win10, win7 and winXP on our home LAN. I have XP because I have a printer that needs XP: no drivers available for any other brand of Windows: a Laserjet 3150. So the printer hangs off that PC as a local printer. Now I think if I want to access it across the network from these other...

Even from the days of XP, I never found a way to keep either notepad or wordpad on top of other pages. Clicking anywhere on the screen with notepad open immediately minimizes it. Is there any way to keep notepad locked on top of other windows?Thanks in advance for your assisstance.

Hi all, okay so yesterday I installed Win 7 on a laptop that had XP before that. XP was on C: disk, and me not being that good at reinstalling OS's I chose to make a clean install of Win 7 on disk D: Now.. if I understand correctly a clean install should've just deleted the previous OS...

Hi, I am attempting to reinstall windows xp home on my mom’s Dell 740 optiplex computer with the Dell reinstallation CD that came when unit was purchased. All her files were copied to a flash drive & no need to recover data. Have done this in past without any problems but this time I can’t seem...

I have an old (10 years) computer which I have had to reinstall Windows XP on.This was done using the original installation disc. To use this disc I had to reformat the hard drive. The computer is now running XP again. The original installation disc was of course also 10 years old so the...

Hi All, Good Day. I have a windows xp pc in factory for machine use, some issue and I formatted and I need CNC controller card driver to be install. I had tried update it from device manager and it couldn't find any driver, I also try to add Hardware wizard also didn't work, can't remember...