A simple hack of Windows XP tricks Microsoft’s update service into delivering patches intended for a close cousin of the aged OS, potentially extending support for some components until 2019, a ...

Microsoft is warning against a simple hack that enables those still using Windows XP to receive security updates through 2019. The trick involves modifying the system registry, a process that is ...

The hack seemingly allows XP users to continue to install security updates, but Microsoft is advising people not to use it. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT ...

A Microsoft executive calls the ease with which two British e-crime specialists managed to hack into a Windows XP computer as both "enlightening and frightening." The SOCA officials wished to remain ...

Microsoft has described the ease with which two officers from the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency managed to hack into Windows XP as both "enlightening and frightening". At a Get Safe Online event ...

It appears that if you previously attempted to install the popular Windows XP "Bootloader" hack, you will not be able to apply to firmware update required for using ...

German computer magazine C’T is reporting a procedure that will let you change Windows XP Home Edition to Windows XP Professional just by changing two bytes in an installation file (implying, at least ...