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Forget Windows 11. These mad lads made Linux look like Windows XP!
You can use the Windows XP interface (as well as other Windows versions) on the Linux distribution Q4OS. Here's how you can ...
It's time for Microsoft to refresh the screensaver experience in Windows 11
Microsoft hasn't refreshed its Windows screensaver selection or interface picker in years, and I think that's a shame. One of ...
Millions of Windows XP disks secretly included Microsoft's failed search assistant to keep pirates at bay — "Bob was actually more useful dead than alive"
Bob resurfaced from Microsoft's Graveyard to pad out the 30MB of free space in Windows XP, keeping pirates at bay.
PCMag16d
A Visual History: Microsoft Windows Over the Decades
Microsoft is turning 50, and nothing has defined the tech giant more than Windows. Like you, we've loved some versions of the desktop OS, and others...not so much.
PC World16d
Every Microsoft Windows operating system, ranked
Windows 3.1 introduced the era of screensavers, MIDI files (played back ... and Vista’s position between Windows XP and Windows 7 just perpetuated that. Like Windows 10, Windows 7 was primarily ...
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32 years later, Windows 11’s infamous Blue Screen of Death is going ‘green’, but why
If there’s one thing that can be called the most annoying – and there are a few – about the Windows operating system, is the infamous Blue Screen of Death. The good news – in some sense ...
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Blue, or green, or black? Windows 11’s infamous ‘screen of death’ error message is going through some confusing changes
Windows Latest reports that the redesigned BSOD is apparently going live in Windows 11 24H2 already (or it’s at least rolling out to some users), as well as being spotted in testing. (Note that ...
Bleeping Computer24d
Windows 11 KB5053656 update released with 38 changes and fixes
Windows 11 KB5053656 highlights Once installed, this optional cumulative release will update Windows 11 24H2 systems to build 26100.3624. The March 2025 preview update comes with additional fixes ...
India.com25d
Windows XP’s Iconic ‘Bliss’ Wallpaper: See How The Legendary Landscape Looks Like Today
The famous Windows XP wallpaper, "Bliss," captured in 1996, looks drastically different today—here’s how the iconic landscape has changed over time. Windows XP’s ‘Bliss’ wallpaper, captured in 1996, ...
Daily Mail25d
NFL chiefs want bombshell new rule change for 2025 season
The NFL is recommending making its dynamic kickoff rule permanent and moving touchbacks to the 35-yard line in hopes of generating even more returns. The league's competition committee released ...
PC Gamer26d
From pixels to pinot: The Windows XP 'Bliss' wallpaper hill was real and this is what it looks like now
Windows XP shipped with a version measuring just 800 by 600 pixels. Anywho, Inside History has a series of follow up images taken from the same vantage point in 2006, 2020, 2024 and 2025.
PC Gamer27d
After punishing my graphics card with Monster Hunter Wilds, I've returned to the rock-solid frame rates of my old hunting grounds: Windows XP
The stages I farm my XP in are just as well thought out. Ragnarok Online always had a vibrant world, and here that translates into a buffet of fantastic locations to fight my way through.