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What was the first Windows NT build to support Windows Registry?
The early alpha builds do not have a registry, thus I wonder what build was the first to include registry?
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Did Windows 2.x actually receive support until end of 2001?
I stumbled on the Wikipedia page for Windows 2.x the other day and briefly scrolled through it. One thing that caught my eye was that it apparently was supported until December 2001.
While I know that Windows releases tend to get supported for 10+…
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How did malware spreading through PIF files work?
If you've used legacy Windows, you probably know about program information files aka PIF files.
At some point, when Internet usage became widespread, these files became a vector of infection for computers and some of you probably remember mail spam…
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How can I find out the OS version and CPU type in Windows CE?
How can I find out the OS version and CPU type in Windows CE, without disassembling the device or compiling any extra software?
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Where can I find software that was designed for Windows 1.0?
Once every decade I get the itch to boot up a Windows 1.0 environment to poke around at it and marvel at how far we've come. However, in any of the environments I've seen (say PCjs), they never seem to have anything other than the default…
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Windows NT 3.51 title bar buttons
What is exact meaning Windows NT 3.51 title bar buttons?
Arrow up is maximize and arrow down minimize?
And left button is close?
Its my assumption right?
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Installing Windows NT 4 without a floppy or CD drive
I need to install Windows NT 4 on a Pentium computer with Windows 98 installed on a FAT32 partition 160 GB drive. I made a 2 GB FAT16 primary partition before this C partition with PartitionMagic, hidden. I do not have CD access and would avoid the…
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2003 Exchange Server connection problems
Just fired up an old copy of Win10 again, and after update that environment is showing problems connecting to Exchange 2003. Specifically,
Edge is unable to connect to Exchange Web Mail, and
Outlook 2003 is unable to connect to Exchange (using the…
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What was it like to use Windows NT 3.1?
For those who used it back in the day, what was it like to use Windows NT 3.1 (or 3.5/3.51)? What did you view its pros and cons to be vs., say, the consumer version of Windows 3.1, or heck, against OS/2 for multitasking/stability?
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What technologies were used to harden Windows against Bluescreens
Quoting a comment from this question: Why did Windows 95 crash the whole system but newer Windows only crashed programs?
"A lot of effort has gone into automatically enforcing that drivers are more robust. This is one of the reasons that Windows 7…
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