Did you know that pigs eat humans (opens in new tab) “far more often than people expect?” If not, surely you must have heard the important, breaking news that a priest “died” in 2016, went to Hell (opens in new … Read more
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Calmira Reborn Calmira Reborn is a Windows 9x-inspired shell for Windows 3.1, featuring: Shortcuts on the desktop A taskbar with a Start Menu, Quick Launch, running programs, user-defined applets, and a clock An easy-to-use replacement for File Manager Windows 95 … Read more
While working on my Windows 3.x display driver, I ran into a vexing problem. In Windows 3.1 running in Enhanced 386 mode, I could start a DOS session and switch it to a window. But an attempt to set a … Read more
February 26, 2015 In my opinion, the UI design of Windows peaked in the late 1990s. The classic, utilitarian icons from Windows 98 just look amazing. Why are they so good? Rather than some designer’s flashy vision of the future, … Read more
At this point in time (22H2 is still quite new and I am running it on two production machines) the label “Search” cannot natively be removed. Nothing useful found in reasonably extensive research. What I know from following the Windows … Read more
This is a community-run resource to help you fix the Windows Update service on earlier versions of Windows. Since Windows XP was discontinued in 2014, followed by Windows 7 in 2020, Microsoft’s support for their earlier OSes has significantly dwindled. … Read more
November 15th, 2022 Windows lets you know when your computer’s Internet connection is limited or absent entirely. What is this sorcery? Windows attempts to download a file from a dedicated Web server. Depending on which version of Windows, it’s http://www.msftncsi.com/ncsi.txt … Read more
Release 1.0.0 · microsoft/WSL · GitHub {{ message }} Releases 1.0.0 Removed the “Preview” label – WSL in the Store is now generally available! Use an override in generator.early to prevent the /tmp/.X11-unix socket from being removed during boot Don’t … Read more
