My friend has almost the same computer (same sound card). It upgraded without ANY difficulty. He claims that the sound quality is even better now with the XP driver, but I have no idea if that's ...

Rumors of Windows XP's demise have been greatly exaggerated. I wrote about Dell's downgrade program in a post earlier this week (Windows Vista just can't catch a break). It looks like Dell may have ...

HP's Pavilion Desktop line (starts at $549; $757 as tested) is a familiar sight at big-box retailers for a reason—it gets most things right. This family-friendly budget desktop has the performance to ...

Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) is on a roll. The company unveiled a trio of ultra-portable Windows 8 machines late last month and then followed up with a trio of All-in-One Windows 8 PCs last week. Now, the ...

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I have a Hewlett-Packard Pavilion DM1-4010us entertainment laptop which came with 64 bit Windows 7. The Realtek adapter works fine in 7. I installed 32 bit Windows XP pro sp3 on a second partition to ...