Welcome to Classic 7! Classic 7 is a Windows 10 (IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021) modification made to look 1:1 to Windows 7. It has all of the goodies that Windows 7 had along with some extras included! Classic 7 features … Read more
Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux. WSL9x runs a modern Linux kernel (6.19 at time of writing) cooperatively inside the Windows 9x kernel, enabling users to take advantage of the full suite of capabilities of both operating systems at the same … Read more
Welcome to the repository for Sudo for Windows 🥪. Sudo for Windows allows users to run elevated commands directly from unelevated terminal windows. The “Inbox” version of sudo is available for Windows 11 builds 26045 and later. If you’re on … Read more
I’m currently working on the next edition of my Windows Server book for Cengage, updating everything from Windows Server 2022 to 2025. As you’d expect, my primary lab machine is a high-end 14th Gen Intel Core i9 system running Windows … Read more
Back in the days of 16-bit Windows, many system components were redistributable, meaning that programs that used those components could include a copy of those system components and install them onto the system as part of the program’s installer. The … Read more
I’m a Windows guy; I always have been. One of my first programming books was Beginning Visual C++ 6, which crucially came with a trial version of Visual C++ that my ten-year-old self could install on my parents’ computer. I … Read more
As Zig has evolved, it has become a target to avoid calling Win32 APIs from kernel32.dll etc., instead using lower-level ones in ntdll.dll. This has been discussed in #1840, but this issue serves as its replacement, and a reformulation of … Read more
(and Word, and Excel, and so much more) by Nina Kalinina, December 27th, 2025 (rev. 1.01 2025-12-27) I bought my first Apricot PC about three years ago, when I realised I wanted an 8086-based computer. At the time, I knew … Read more
2025-11-30 – Programming – Windows On its own, the title of this post is just a true piece of trivia, verifiable with the built-in subst tool (among other methods). Here’s an example creating the drive +: as an alias for … Read more
Windows launched way back in 1985, when I was still using a Commodore 64 and PCs were all of four years old–barely out of diapers. The GUI or Graphical User Interface, has changed a lot over the years and I … Read more