Windows XP communicates with the hardware in your computer through device drivers, computer programs that act as middle-men between the operating system and the motherboard and its connected ...

Although both Smash Mouth and Windows XP no longer have much official support out there, it doesn’t mean both can’t be remembered fondly. Indeed they’ve both inspired Youtuber James Nielssen to create ...

Edit the wav files (you could do a ghetto hack job with Start - Run - sndrec32 - Effects - Increase / Decrease Volume), or point the sound scheme to different wavs entirely (under Start - Control ...

That’s probably why “artist, producer and DJ” ROMderful felt the need to do this to its startup music, taking the six-second chime composed by Bill Brown and making it a full R&B song about a girl who ...

If you thought that half hour you spent digging stuff out of various parts of your body was a waste of time, check out what this guy figured out how to play on his synth piano. Yeah, it’s Windows ...

my friend just bought his windows xp plus pack, and i want the mercury pool screen saver from him... but when i put the cd in, it tells me i need XP to install anything.... i browsed to the directory, ...

This is it, people. We’re officially on the tail end of the Smash Mouth meme. It’s been a good ride. But while most reworkings of “All Star” have just upped the levels of obnoxiousness that are ...

Rob Landes plays sound effects on violin! Featuring classic device sounds like Nokia & Windows XP, and game sounds from Mario ...

Casey Newton is a contributing editor who has been writing about tech for over 10 years. He founded Platformer, a newsletter about Big Tech and democracy. It has now been more than 15 years since ...