With no new copies of Windows XP being sold, support for XP will start to decline. Fortunately, XP’s long run has produced a ton of collected wisdom: everything you need to keep your copy going strong and — when ready — to help you move on. If that’s your long-term goal, there are a number of steps you can take now to ensure a finely tuned XP system for months — possibly years — to come.

The Windows Secrets editors have selected the best tips on Windows XP and created this concise guide, covering three major categories:

• Maintaining Windows XP
• Troubleshooting XP
• Win7 and XP: Living in both worlds

You can read the entire 40 page e-book from front to back, but it’s most useful as a quick-reference guide that you keep at hand.

Happy computing!

Table of Contents

Introduction

• Windows XP: Looking back, looking forward
• Microsoft included many keys to XP’s success
• XP’s many blemishes are well documented
• XP will get security patches until April 2014

Maintaining Windows XP

• Preparing Windows XP for the long haul
• Start with a thorough XP system checkup
• Review and update your PC’s security system
• Give your computer a thorough file cleaning
• Use disk imaging to preserve your new setup
• Slimmed-down Windows XP delivers benefits
• Get ready to create your Windows XP boot CD
• Putting nLite through its install-CD paces
• Wrapping up the creation of your mini-XP disc
• Put Windows XP on a bootable flash drive
• Flash media offer speed and flexibility
• Put a copy of Windows XP on a flash drive
• An advanced USB-based rescue system using Linux
• Build your own XP Service Pack 4
• Picking through the list of Windows XP hotfixes
• How to request a hotfix from Microsoft

Troubleshooting XP

• An update ends in partial hangs
• A step-by-step guide for improving boot times
• Waiting, waiting, waiting for system shutdown
• What to do when Windows refuses to boot
• Computer on strike? OS fails to show
• Using Windows’ built-in repair tools
• Using Linux to restore data and test your PC
• When you know you have a hardware problem
• Using the tools on the Windows CD-ROM
• Your last, desperate move: reinstalling

Win7 and XP: Living in both worlds

• Using Windows 7s XP Mode — step by step
• Setting up XP Mode for the first time
• Important first steps with your new XP Mode
• Installing and using software in XP Mode
• Gotchas? Of course there are gotchas!
• Configuring remote control between Windows OSes
• Setting up remote control in Windows 7
• Remote-control setup in XP SP3

More Windows XP Resources

• Other Windows Secrets XP setup/maintenance articles

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