As you know, desktop security has become a constant battle. There are no clear victories, only the ongoing triumph of a smoothly-operating computer. The Internet today is awash with viruses, trojans, ...

From Windows Messenger and Outlook Express to MSN, Windows XP used to support a long list of interesting applications. While all these apps were great in their own way, I spent most of my time on my ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Charles O'Rear / Microsoft I vividly remember when I got my very first computer growing ...

This Windows XP right-click feature still works in Windows 11—and it’s great.

Once desktop virtualization scenarios take hold, the choices for desktop operating system will be opened up a bit more, experts say. For example, in a VDI scenario, the actual client computer can use ...

Windows XP also became one of the longest-supported and widely used versions of Windows and was one of those rare releases that outlived its successor. This interesting failure was Windows Vista. XP ...

We are in the process of designing a strategy for turning on the Windows Desktop Firewall on our admin workstations. At this point we're blocking everything but ICMP, RDP and Dameware, however some of ...