Windows 3.x means either of, or all of the following versions of Microsoft Windows: Windows 3.0 Windows 3.1 Windows NT 3.x This set index article includes...
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released for the Windows 3.x platform, mostly created between 1989 and 1994. Many are also compatible with the later 32-bit Windows operating systems...
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Windows 3.1 is a major release of Microsoft Windows. It was released to manufacturing on April 6, 1992, as a successor to Windows 3.0. Like its predecessors...
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Black screen of death (section Windows 3.x)
Windows after Windows 3.1 (Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 and Windows 11)...
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x. Usenet: [email protected]. Retrieved 6 March 2013. e.g. "X Windows FAQ", the FAQ for Usenet newsgroup comp.windows.x. The X Window System:...
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modern Windows GUI with the Taskbar and Start menu. It was designed to replace the Windows 3.x Program Manager/File Manager based shell with Windows Explorer-based...
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Windows NT 3.x may refer to either of, or all of the following versions of Microsoft Windows: Windows NT 3.1 Windows NT 3.5 Windows NT 3.51 This set index...
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support for Windows 3.0, along with previous versions of Windows and Windows 95, Windows for Workgroups, and MS-DOS versions up to 6.22. Windows 3.0 features...
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Windows 95 is a consumer-oriented operating system developed by Microsoft and the first of its Windows 9x family of operating systems, released to manufacturing...
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of Windows 9x is 4.x. The internal versions for Windows 95, 98, and Me are 4.0, 4.1, and 4.9, respectively. Previous MS-DOS-based versions of Windows used...
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MS-DOS starts WIN.COM. In Windows 3.x, the WIN.COM starts KRNL286.EXE (standard mode) or KRNL386.EXE (386 enhanced mode). In Windows 9x, the WIN.COM starts...
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industry – Windows (unqualified) for a consumer or corporate workstation, Windows Server for a server and Windows IoT for an embedded system. Windows is sold...
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Microsoft Windows was announced by Bill Gates on November 10, 1983, 2 years before it was first released. Microsoft introduced Windows as a graphical user...
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In computing, Windows on Windows (commonly referred to as WOW) is a discontinued compatibility layer of 32-bit versions of the Windows NT family of operating...
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Memory paging (section Windows 3.x and Windows 9x)
to programs. Paging has been a feature of Microsoft Windows since Windows 3.0 in 1990. Windows 3.x creates a hidden file named 386SPART.PAR or WIN386.SWP...
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usually call a window is a top-level window in the X Window System. The term window is also used for windows that lie within another window, that is, the...
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Windows 98 is a consumer-oriented operating system developed by Microsoft as part of its Windows 9x family of Microsoft Windows operating systems. It...
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format in Windows 3.x that is saved with the file extension rle; it is a run-length encoded bitmap, and was used as the format for the Windows 3.x startup...
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or Windows PowerShell. Task Manager was introduced in its current form with Windows NT 4.0. Prior versions of Windows NT, as well as Windows 3.x, include...
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1-2-3/W Release 1 was the first release for Windows, requiring Windows 3.0 or higher, was 16-bit, and was functionally equivalent to Release 3.x for DOS...
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Windows NT is a proprietary graphical operating system produced by Microsoft as part of its Windows product line, the first version of which, Windows...
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manager from previous Windows versions. Although File Manager was included in Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 and some later versions, Windows Explorer was introduced...
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VxD (category Windows components)
is the device driver model used in Microsoft Windows/386 2.x, the 386 enhanced mode of Windows 3.x, Windows 9x, and to some extent also by the Novell DOS...
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List of Microsoft codenames (redirect from Windows codenames)
usually matches the Windows version number. Builds of these semesters were only released via the Windows Insider program. Windows Server 2022 reports...
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replacement for the DCI and WinG APIs for Windows 3.1. DirectX allowed all versions of Microsoft Windows, starting with Windows 95, to incorporate high-performance...
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lists. This number is always up to date by this script. Lists of video games Index of DOS games List of Windows 3.x games List of cancelled Windows games...
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This article compares variety of different X window managers. For an introduction to the topic, see X Window System. LGPL-2.1-only with naming restrictions...
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WinG (category Windows APIs)
Microsoft Windows, although it was quickly discontinued in favor of DirectX. WinG fixed two problems. The first problem that WinG fixed was that Windows 3.x did...
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software initially had Windows 3.x support, but after version 3.0 all support for 16-bit Windows was dropped. Additionally, Windows 95 support was dropped...
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