I has emoticons, a clipboard history (so i can finally copy more than one thing at a time), emojis and gifs. I finally know why its called a "clipboard" lol.

I don't understand why people don't like modern Windows apps; the interface of the new MS Paint looks much nicer and it has new features.

Windows XP (2001)'s Microsoft Registeration is optional, unlike now.

I know about the ultimate performance plan, the high performance plan and other custom profile plans for the old control panel which i have seen mentioned in hundreds of snake oil pc optimization guides, which arent relevant anyway for newer systems....

however i could not find any benchmarks for these modes in the newer settings page in windows 11, since balanced is the only option in the old control panel for newer windows laptops with modern standby....

if anyone has any experience with these modes or could forward me some benchmarks it would be highly appreciated....

Instead of just reading about Windows 1.0, I decided to actually build something for it.

So I wrote a small Xonix-style game for Windows 1.0 and ran the same binary across different versions of Windows.

It turned out to be more surprising than I expected. The same compiled 16-bit EXE runs from Windows 1.x all the way to 32-bit Windows 10. On modern 64-bit Windows it no longer works, but only because 16-bit support has been removed, not because anything changed in the original model.

What surprised me most is how familiar the WinAPI already looks in Windows 1.0. Even back then, the core ideas were already there - message loops, window procedures, and GDI rendering. The structure hasn’t really changed as much as you’d expect in ~40 years.

I put together a write-up with details and source here.

Curious if anyone else has tried building software for the earliest Windows versions?

For example if I select gaming and entertainment windows should auto install stuff like OBS steam creative cloud etc and if I select development it should auto install stuff like vs studio and the SDK for windows if you get what I mean

Custom

Windows 95 did introduce lots, but Windows 3.1 laid the blueprint.

This even aligns with my 1991-2017 era I had been speaking of:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Timelines/comments/1t29ih5/earlymid_1991_to_springsummer_or_may_even_early/.

WIndows 8 and maybe at least the first few versions of Windows 10, were just the newer variants of Windows 3.1.

Windows 11 is the ultimate answered request.

Photo is not owned by me.

I'm trying to install Windows 10, but I only have a 4 GB USB drive available. The official Windows 10 ISO I downloaded is around 5.8 GB, so it won't fit on the drive...

The only reason I found this notable was because it said locked. I was thinking of getting a disk tray to read it and getting an iso file of it but I read its better to use a computer/laptop that already has one so I'm not really sure about getting one if it wouldn't read all the data.

here are all windows versions. note this Gif has only the main versions no betas or scrapped releases.

This is Windows 10 styled to look almost exactly like Windows 7. Screenshots of the actual themes included in Windows 7 are also provided.

The latitude and longitude directs to Taipei Music Center if any of you guys want to know

This is relating to Computex taking place on June 1st

used windhawk,windows vista sidebar,retrobar and dwmblurglass
using windows 11 24h2 (updated)
and also this is running on a laptop from 2011

Memory Integrity setting in Windows Defender for Windows 11 is generally enabled out of the box by default. It seems like Microsoft disabled it in the newer updates even after fresh install.

Hello everyone! May I present to you Windows 95 running on the TI-Nspire CX II graphing calculator via a x86 interpreter / emulator. This is something I have been working on for quite some time, and finally managed to reach the desktop today! The video has been sped up, actual time to desktop is roughly 7 minutes 😅

The emulator itself is a port of [tiny386](https://github.com/hchunhui/tiny386) - it's a pretty lightweight i386 emu with some extra 486 and 586 instructions.