Ars Technica

Offline files, "Errors occurred while Windows was synchronizing your data" Windows XP

I am having issues with a machine that is synching offline files to a network share during shutdown. The messages I get are "Synchronization complete", "Errors occurred while Windows was synchronizing ...
Ars Technica

Outlook .pst files in Windows XP--where are they?

When I did a fresh install of XP, I installed Outlook, and then imported a .pst file from my old computer. I had copied the file, labled backup.pst, into my "my documents" folder, and then imported ...
Computerworld

XP change corrupts data, hamstrings SP3 rollout

Microsoft Corp. confirmed on Wednesday that it delayed the rollout of Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) because changes to the operating system can corrupt data in the company’s retail point-of-sale and ...
Windows Central

Millions of Windows XP disks secretly included Microsoft's failed search assistant to keep pirates at bay — "Bob was actually more useful dead than alive"

Developer Raymond Chen says Windows XP shipped with an encrypted version of Microsoft Bob to pad out 30MB of free space. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...