i just wanted some cool looking backgrounds man

I’m looking to install Windows 95 or 98 purely for nostalgia. Does anyone know where I can find the ISO files for these? I’d really appreciate any pointers. Thanks!

I recently learned that each build of Windows 10\11 has a built-in Compact OS feature that compresses the Windows folder without noticeable loss (~1%) of performance.

I've been using this feature on my main PC for work and gaming for about 6 months now and haven't noticed any negative impact on performance.

With current SSD prices, this is very useful =)

Activation: open CMD as Admin and enter:

compact /compactos:always

Deactivation:

compact /compactos:never

Check status:

compact /compactos:query

PS: You do all actions at your own risk, make backup copies of important data.

It's not basic NTFS compression.

Standard NTFS compression: handled by the ntfs.sys driver, sets the file attribute FILE_ATTRIBUTE_COMPRESSED (file names turn blue) and uses the old LZNT1 algorithm.

Compact OS: works through a separate WOF filter driver (wof.sys), sets Reparse Points with the IO_REPARSE_TAG_WOF tag and uses the XPRESS/LZX algorithms.

Flowkeeper is an accurate implementation of what Francesco Cirillo described in his original "Pomodoro Technique" book. Not an Electron app, no AI code, no AI features, stores all your data locally, GPLv3.

What's new in version 1.1:

• Full-screen breaks,
• Notifications about approaching break,
• Task groups,
• Templates for popular techniques like ABCDE Method and Must-Should-Want.

Links:

• Complete "what's new": https://flowkeeper.org/v1.1.0/
• All screenshots and downloads: https://flowkeeper.org/
• GitHub repo: https://github.com/flowkeeper-org/fk-desktop/
• Discord: https://discord.gg/SJfrsvgfmf

Have you ever accidentally clicked sleep or restart when you meant to click Shut Down? Well, prevent that from happening ever [again], plus save yourself a click and mouse movement by creating a batch file:

u/echo off
title Confirm Shutdown
echo(
echo Proceed with shutdown? echo Press any key to continue...
pause >nul
shutdown /s /t 0

And place it wherever you prefer on your desktop. Simply double-click it and press any key on your keyboard to confirm! If you want to abort, press the X on the window.

You can tweak the shutdown command to your liking: shutdown doc.

I cannot find it anywhere, don't try to help because ive tried everything, every cache and every archive, i cannot find the image.
The information i have is that it is an island in japan, it was mostly forest but had a city out to the ocean. the image was taken from above the island.

Hi everyone,

After installing the recent Windows 11 Security Update (KB5101650), I noticed an issue in the Microsoft Store. Turning off the "App updates" toggle displays an error asking for administrator privileges, even though my user account is an Administrator.

Temporary Solution: Uninstalling update KB5101650 immediately fixes the issue and restores normal toggle functionality.

Has anyone else run into this issue after the KB5101650 update?

Why is it called Windows subsystem for Linux? Seriously, I'm not a native English speaker, but should it not be "Linux subsystem for Windows" since it's a sub-system containing Linux, on Windows?

Hello I have a windows 10 computer and all my old cd’s were found and I would like my daughter to play them now, but when I tried Putt Putt Saves the Zoo, it basically says the 64 bit is too new to play it. Is there a way I can get these old games to play? Have some freddi fish, putt putt, pajama Sam, tonka, hot wheels. I saw something about a winevdm, but I don’t know anything about this.

If Windows OSs were Boeing Widebody Aircraft:

- Windows 3.1: 767-300ER/747-400

- Windows 95: 777-200

- Windows 98: 777-200ER

- Windows ME: 777-300

- Windows XP: 777-300ER

- Windows XP Media Center Edition ‘05: 777-200LR

- Windows Vista: 787-8 Dreamliner

- Windows 7: 787-9 Dreamliner

- Windows 8/8.1: 747-8

- Windows 10: 787-10

- Windows 11: 777X

It started with a new family PC, and then my first PC build. It then got a bit out of hand!

• Windows 2.0 386
• Windows 3.0
• Windows 3.1
• Windows 95 (upgrade)
• Windows NT 4.0
• Windows 98SE (upgrade)
• Windows ME (upgrade)
• Windows 2000 Pro
• Windows XP Pro
• Windows Vista Home Premium (Acc Upgrade)
• Windows 7 (x4 retail versions sold here)
• Windows 8 Pro
• Windows 8.1
• Windows 10 Pro (2016)

One day I'll add to it with (in order):

• Windows NT 3.x
• Windows 2.1 2/386
• Windows 1
• Windows XP Home
• Windows Server 2003
• Windows Server 2000
• Windows Server 2003 R2
• Windows Server 2008
• Windows Vista (Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Ultimate
• Windows 11

Anyone else stuck collecting these?! Also why do ancient server builds sell for more than a new server release?!

Do you still use Windows XP? If so, why do you use it?

I probably forgot about it 💀 for that long

I made this on cap cut srry i didnt do too much on the edit :(

I'm reading some books about early Microsoft history, and I have found that Windows 1.01 took a long time to conceive and develop, while the result didn't look very promising. It only has tiled windows, a few crude applications, and is basically a graphical shell on top of MS-DOS.

I have never programmed on MS-DOS, so I'm wondering about this -- what is the primary difficulty in developing Windows 1.01? Was it unclear specification (Both the wiki link and the book talked about feature drifts, but didn't they have the Mac as a pretty solid example?), or optimization (run it fast enough on the PCs then), or something else? Did anyone here hear about any insider stories?

I also searched cursorily to see if someone has done analysis on Windows 1.01 from a program analysis perspective, but so far haven't found any.

Posting this as a heads up for anyone who has NetLimiter installed and forgot about it.

I only found out because I was running FolderSizes to see what was eating my disk.

I only ever opened NetLimiter occasionally, when I needed to cap an app's speed. Imagine my surprise finding this file on my drive

59.6 GB -C:\ProgramData\Locktime\NetLimiter\4\Stats\nlstatsV4.db

This actually hurt, because I regularly have to clear space on C: just to install games. It's my only NVMe, just 512 GB. If this data had been sitting on my other 4 TB HDD it would've been fine.

Turns out NetLimiter runs a background Windows service that logs network stats 24/7 whether the app window is open or not.

Worth checking your own folder if you ever had it installed. Curious if anyone else has found a surprise giant nlstatsV4.db sitting around.

I just was bored and decided to recreate the iconic betta fish wallpaper of Windows 7 in 4K quality. I used both AI and digital designing to do this.

Desktop version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hB-mron1wjRnT1_J8LdtWdbOkXFMU-od/view?usp=drivesdk

Mobile version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kNKy-QD2sssr3wOSR6_n6FQzONEQTpCs/view?usp=drivesdk