Buried deep within Windows’ bosom is a carbon-crusted fossil from the ancient days of computing. This aged wart on Windows’ soul harkens back to a more primitive time, when computers lacked the oomph ...

(1) Commands and functions that work equally in DOS and Windows. DOS was the underlying control program for the early versions of Windows, and most all the DOS functionality was built into later ...

I’VE JUST LEARNED that my Windows Me Secrets co-author, Davis Straub, recently set a new world record for miles flown in a hang glider. Smashing the 10-year-old record of 308 miles, he launched his ...

That may make it interpret it differently. Also you can try to install DOS 6.22 before installing Windows and I think it used to allow you to choose in the startup menu whether you wanted to go into ...

Kenneth M. Frith is moving away from Windows XP (as he should). But he still has some old DOS programs he’s either unwilling or unable to give up. Can they run in Windows 8? The big question is: Does ...

As the forerunner to the graphical user interfaces in Microsoft’s Windows platform, MS-DOS helped set the stage for the company’s dominance in the PC software market. When MS-DOS was released in 1981, ...

The reality is that Windows does a good enough job at handling driver updates. Manufacturers submit the latest versions to ...

In Windows 11/10 you can open a Command Prompt in full-screen, but in Windows 7 or Windows Vista, if you try to maximize the command prompt window, it will expand only to cover around half the screen.

Starting in the 1990s, Windows NT ushered in a new architecture that has been carried forward more or less intact ever since. Current client version of Windows. Windows is a 64-bit OS and runs only on ...