Is there a way to use a vertical taskbar layout together with an auto-hide taskbar? Does anyone know how to do this?

Windows 1.1 Calculator, the cursor is transparent. Does anyone know why they did this?

Not sure how this happened but.. it happened...

just a fun little question :P

as a bonus : You are allowed to choose Windows Mobile/Phone or Server

A very interesting rare and little used version of Windows XP for Intel's 64 Bit Itanium architecture, there were two versions of Windows XP 64 Bit Edition, one based on the standard Windows XP codebase and a newer version based on the Windows Server 2003 codebase (which would also be used to develop Windows Vista). Microsoft discontinued support for both versions after HP stopped making itanium workstations, that same year Microsoft released Windows XP x64 Edition for the widely adopted x86-64 architecture.

This version of Windows XP is pretty unusable as most programs refuse to run on it due to both the architectural differences and the fact that it's unable to be upgraded to SP3 which most programs require.

Does anyone still listen to windows songs/remixes?

For years, probably decades, I've kept wanting a list of all the Windows keyboard shortcuts. I, and I believe many others, have made the same suggestion in the Windows Feedback Hub.

Last week I was looking for keyboard shortcuts to control Windows 11 Voice Access. I found a few on a forum. This is Windows normal. Why?

Please, please Microsoft give us a single page with a FULL and COMPLETE list of ALL the keyboard shortcuts for your own operating system.

Microsoft's own main list (please see link above post) lacks even the word "speech" despite residing on their accessibility pages. The page has an entry for the old dictation command:

How to find keystrokes for Windows current Speech Access? You have to scroll down to bottom of the page, find Windows keyboard shortcuts for accessibility, click through that, and search again. Then you see

That still does not mention the Alt+Shift+B and Alt+Shift+C shortcuts, which toggle the mic state without closing Speech Access. This page does list them: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/accessibility/windows/voice-access/get-started-with-voice-access

Please, please, give us a single page, that we can copy, with all the Windows keyboard shortcuts.

I dont want to move to Windows 11 cuz of obvious reasons of it being shitty, Latest Windows 10 runs fine on my system and i use Microsoft Edge as my browser. Is it still safe to use this?

Got this for a whole $4, disc looks great, paper on the case as well, case has seen better days though

One day I went to biedronka in Pruszków and saw like windows 10 something broke so I checked and it was windows 10 proply like enterprise ltsc or ltsc iot and user was named "scot"

Well it had a celeron g1820te 4gb ddr3 ram flash memory 128gb and intel hd I also saw another one with ddr4 I think and celeron g3900te but it's interesting to see in a polish store windows

Ok, so there's this cursor (first image) that is used in old CD-Rom games such as The Museum of Anything Goes and The Manhole; in fact, this screenshot was taken from a Vinysauce VID playing TMoAG.

The thing is, when I boot up Windows 3.1 (the version the game was made for) and hover over a link, I get a DIFFERENT POINTING HAND (second image).

I tried looking up and the closest thing I could find was this pointing hand cursor from Apples 1987's software "HyperCard" (third image), but as you can see, it's still a different one (Apple's doesn't have the black outline at the bottom).

Does anybody know where this is from? If so, is there any download link available? I've been searching for hours and can't find anything.

I took this photo using Expert RAW on my Samsung Galaxy S25 and edited it in Adobe Lightroom.

exploring files on windows and copying files to android through usb/ftp had been bothering me for almost two decades. I have a fast m.2 ssd and it was slow at performing specific task due to the same reason.

my rough understanding....8dot3name is a ms-dos way of internally giving a nickname to files and folders so they don't exceed 8 characters.... ex. "Program Files" is nicknamed "PROGRA~1" ...it also applies to every long character files such as movies, music, docs etc. Accessing file size for such files now have to go through database and it takes a lot of time in very fast ssd as well.

I do think this is the least explored fix and some say that it will break older apps but this can be controlled by the user.

To check if 8dot3name is enabled-

fsutil 8dot3name query C:

I first disabled 8dot3name applying to new files and folders by-

fsutil 8dot3name set 1

and stripped the 8dotname from movie collection to check if it makes any difference

fsutil 8dot3name strip /f /s D:\Movies

and confirmed it did....it was lag-free scrolling in Tiles view

Then I repeated the process to few folder that I regularly use.....external harddrives now got faster too.

Searching through files is now really fast. Android directory through usb or ftp behaves like they were regular windows folder and no more failing to copy 1000's of large music files.

To note that it wouldn't be safe if I stripped the 8dot3name from every windows files as a lot of registry were affected. So Dual-booted windows 25h2 by applying this registry and the installation and updates are instantaneous.

reg add "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem" /v NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

I can't believe I didn't do this sooner and it was frustrating at times to read and write large files to HDD and android. This also might expand life of SSD. I think we also were torturing android devices that way.

i have here my arch installation in wsl but i get bored of the terminal really easily so i was wondering is there a command similiar to kex on kali-linux?

Hey everyone!

Some of you might remember me from this post, where I showcased my emulator running Windows 95 on my TI-Nspire CX II CAS.

Well, Let's just say things escalated. The emulator can now run every major Windows release, including XP!

For XP, I specifically used XP Embedded - it is lighter on the machine!

For context, all of this is running on a calculator with a 396 MHz processor, 64 MB of RAM, and around 90 MB of storage - and the actual RAM available to Windows is around 44MB.

To get around the storage constraints of the Nspire, WiNspire uses a protocol that streams disk images from a host machine over USB.

XP takes nearly an hour and a half to reach desktop but it really is worth every moment.

The project was incredibly fun to work on and I ended up going very deep down the Windows rabbit hole along the way.

The project is open-source, so please feel free to subject your calculator to windows as well.

Repository

Wiki

Ai is saying its a bug not a design element from those days

I just went from the 8 Menu to the 10 Menu and this happened :O

I've had these since I bought them around 1988ish, enjoy. Yes I said 1985 first, mistakenly, it has been a long time since I bought them.

(In case you can't read the text in the image)

This is Windows 8 Release Preview, the latest beta version released to the public and one of the last ones to include the Areo Glass theme (the actual last one was build 8427.) It is really close to the RTM (release to manufacture, retail) release of the system, withe only major differences being the Areo Glass theme, changes to the Basic theme (the main one in Windows 8 RTM), and the Start Screen. The Areo Glass theme is actually included here without needing to install any additional drivers. The reason that Areo Glass was removed from Windows 8's RTM was because it was too heavy on tablets, draining it's battery and slowing the device, making it just another casualty of Microsoft's overfocusing on tablets over desktops.

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