Despite being released in 2001, Windows XP remains the 2nd most popular operating system in the world. The O.S. has a 21.75% global market share and has only been overtaken by Windows 7 in the past few years.

At BackupBob we understand that many people like Windows XP and do not want to upgrade or change to another system. Therefore we have made our BackupBob desktop software fully compatible with XP. This allows you to have all the same features as users with Mac OS X Mountain Lion or Windows 7.

However over the past decade Microsoft has released a selection of free updates for Windows XP. These have fixed small bugs in the system reducing the chances of your computer crashing or people being able to hack into your system. We are strongly focused on security at BackupBob and so we make sure our software only supports the latest versions of XP.

Recently a few customers have got in contact with us after having problems installing or updating the software on their machines. The problem was that the customers were not using the latest version of XP and after downloading a few quick updates BackupBob worked fine.

If you are using a Windows XP machine and have not downloaded any of the updates, we suggest you use the following guides:

Windows XP Service Pack 3 – http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322389

.NET Framework 4 update – http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29403