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Windows 2000 – Support lifecycle

Windows 2000 has now been superseded by newer Microsoft operating systems: Windows 2000 Server products by Windows Server 2003, and Windows 2000 Professional by Windows XP Professional. The Windows 2000 family of operating systems moved from mainstream support to the extended support phase on 30 June 2005. Microsoft says that this marks the progression of [...]

Windows SideShow – Market Acceptance

SideShow has been less-than-enthusiastically accepted by OEMs. Some see SideShow as an attempt to make them produce hardware which can be used only with Microsoft operating systems. (Other examples include Windows key, Smart Display and the Toshiba M400 laptop, which requires Windows to upgrade the BIOS). On February 1st, 2010, Ikanos Consulting announced Threemote, a [...]

Hover! – Introduction

”Hover!” is a video game that was included on the Microsoft Windows 95 operating system CD. It was a showcase for the advanced multimedia capabilities available on personal computers at the time. It is still available from Microsoft and will run on all of Microsoft’s operating systems released since Windows 95, including Windows 7. The [...]

Home directory – Introduction

Home directory is a file system directory on a multi-user operating system containing files for a given user of the system. The specifics of the home directory (such as its name and location) is defined by the operating system involved; for example, Windows systems between 2000 and 2003 keep home directories in a folder called [...]

Windows Preinstallation Environment – Introduction

Windows Preinstallation Environment (aka Windows PE, WinPE) is a lightweight version of Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 7, or Windows Server 2008 R2 that is used for the deployment of workstations and servers. It is intended as a 32-bit or 64-bit replacement for MS-DOS during the installation phase of Windows, and can [...]

IExpress – About the tool

IExpress is a tool provided by Microsoft in Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. It was also bundled with installations of Internet Explorer 6 on Windows 2000. It can be useful for distributing multiple files to Windows end-users. It makes a self-extracting DPInst installation package or a compressed CAB file. All self-extracting files creating [...]

PortableApps.com – Compatibility

The majority of applications can run on almost any computer with Windows 2000 or later Some applications will also run on Windows 95/98/Me and under Wine on Linux-based operating systems. However, it was announced on April 27, 2010 that Windows 95/98/Me support is ending as of version 1.6.1, in both the menu and any apps [...]

Multi-touch – Software

Many recent operating systems support multitouch, including Mac OS X, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP Tablet PC Edition and Ubuntu (since version 7.10), Samsung’s Bada, Apple’s iOS, Google’s Android, Palm’s webOS, Symbian ^3 OS, Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7, BlackBerry OS 6.0, Xandros and Neprash Technology’s N-Touch Platform. Adapted from the Wikipedia article Multi-touch, under [...]

Multi boot – Introduction

Multi-boot or Multi-booting is the act of installing multiple operating systems on a computer, and being able to choose which one to boot when starting the computer. The term dual-booting refers to the common configuration of exactly two operating systems. Multi-booting requires a program called a boot loader. Adapted from the Wikipedia article Multi boot, [...]

Microsoft Auto – Introduction

Microsoft Auto (also previously known as Windows CE for Automotive, Windows Automotive, and Windows Mobile for Automotive) is an embedded operating system based on Windows CE for use on computer systems in automobiles. The operating system is developed by Microsoft through the Microsoft Automotive Business Unit that formed in August 1995. The first automotive product [...]

Windows NT – Introduction

Windows NT is a family of operating systems produced by Microsoft, the first version of which was released in July 1993. It was originally designed to be a powerful high-level-language-based, processor-independent, multiprocessing, multiuser operating system with features comparable to Unix. It was intended to complement consumer versions of Windows that were based on MS-DOS. NT [...]

Media Transfer Protocol – Windows MTP support

On Microsoft Windows, MTP is supported in Microsoft Windows XP if Windows Media Player 10 or later versions are installed. Windows Vista has MTP built-in. Most MTP-compatible devices do not appear through drive letter assignment in Windows Explorer, instead they will appear as “devices” in Windows Explorer. Additionally, on Windows, MTP-compatible devices support a feature [...]

Regsvr32 – Introduction

regsvr32 is a command-line utility in Microsoft Windows operating systems for registering and unregistering DLLs and ActiveX controls in the Windows Registry. To be used with ”regsvr32”, a DLL must export the functions DllRegisterServer and DllUnregisterServer. Adapted from the Wikipedia article Regsvr32, under the G. N. U. Free Documentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

Lego Creator (video game) – Windows XP/Vista compatibility

Older versions of ”Lego Creator” CDs do not work in Windows XP unmodified. When installed from an original game disc, overwritten with a third party patch and run in Windows 98/Me compatibility mode, the game will play on some Windows XP computers. Lego has released a newer edition which is XP compatible and has also [...]









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