An October surprise — that’s how many are interpreting Microsoft’s 11th-hour revelation that it will be providing a virtualized copy of Windows XP as a free compatibility add-on to Windows 7 ...

That may make it interpret it differently. Also you can try to install DOS 6.22 before installing Windows and I think it used to allow you to choose in the startup menu whether you wanted to go into ...

Raymond Chen recently shared another interesting tidbit about the inner workings of Windows 95. The original 32-bit consumer operating system had a "secret" fast-restart feature, which ...

I upgraded to WinXP Home last November after my Win98SE had gotten so unstable that I couldn't stand it (and couldn't seem to find a way to fix it, either). But now I want to play some old games that ...