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Microsoft’s having a tough year with reboots. First it was a reboot ad infinitum in February, brought on by a flawed update to Windows Vista. Now the same thing’s happening to some users who have ...

The latest service pack for Windows XP continues to cause problems for users. According to an online user forum, the latest glitch in Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) causes problems with the remote ...

As we've mentioned before, there's an internet petition circulating which calls on Microsoft to extend support for Windows XP. Last time we checked in supporters had gathered some 160,000 signatures ...

A former Microsoft security manager has published a tool designed to detect and fix PCs that may be susceptible to “endless reboots” if updated to Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3). Jesper Johansson, ...

XP SP3 users won't be able to uninstall either the service pack or Internet Explorer 8 under some circumstances Microsoft yesterday warned users of Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) that they won’t be ...

Windows XP SP3 never had prerequisite updates like Vista SP1 did, so there is no way an endless reboot could plague a small number of people, right? Wrong. XP SP3 does not need a prerequisite update ...