Tag: windows

Does Showing Seconds in the System Tray Actually Use More Power?

Enviado por Fabio
We're no strangers to poking around the weird settings of an OS, but we'll admit: we haven’t paid much attention this one because the setting is off by default and why would we want to decrease our...

14/07/25 | hace 4 días | www.lttlabs.com

The Windows That Never Was

Enviado por Fabio
Windows 96 promised to build on the success of Windows 95, yet it never materialized as originally intended.

21/06/25 | hace 27 días | timemachiner.io

Windows 7: A 2025 perspective (rose-tinted or not)

Enviado por Fabio
Short review of Windows 7 with 2025 perspective, including setup and installation, system updates and associated tweaks, security posture with up-to-date browser, standard user and EMET, available...

10/06/25 | hace 38 días | www.dedoimedo.com

KDE para los exiliados de Windows 10

Enviado por Fabio
Actualiza tu software, no tu equipo

05/06/25 | hace 43 días | kde.org

Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers

Enviado por Fabio
As technology marches on, some people get trapped using decades-old software and devices. Here's a look inside the strange, stubborn world of obsolete Windows machines.

26/05/25 | hace 53 días | www.bbc.co.uk

Windows 2: Final Fantasy of operating systems

Enviado por Fabio
It is common knowledge that Final Fantasy could have been the "final" game for the studio, the first and the last in the series. It is far less known that Windows 2, released around the same time,...

03/01/25 | hace 196 días | www.ninakalinina.com

Why did Windows 95 setup use three operating systems?

Enviado por Fabio
Curiosamente el setup del Windows 95 pasaba primero por MS DOS, luego Windows 3.1 y al final recién Windows 95, tres sistemas operativos para instalar uno solo, delirio de la época

22/11/24 | hace 238 días | devblogs.microsoft.com

Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison

Enviado por Fabio
NT is often touted as a \"very advanced\" operating system. Why is that? What made NT better than Unix, if anything? And is that still the case?

29/09/24 | hace 292 días | blogsystem5.substack.com

A Windows Control Panel Retrospective Amidst A Concerning UX Shift

Enviado por Fabio
Once the nerve center of Windows operating systems, the Control Panel and its multitude of applets has its roots in the earliest versions of Windows. From here users could use these configuration a…

07/09/24 | hace 314 días | hackaday.com

Carmageddon: el videojuego que rebasó todos los límites de la moralidad

Enviado por Fabio
La historia del videojuego comienza con sus dos creadores: Patrick Buckland y Neil Barnden, quienes fundaron en Reino Unido la empresa Stainless Software en 1994, actualmente conocida como Stainless...

10/07/24 | hace 373 días | www.generacionbeta.es

Recall es una pesadilla para la seguridad de tus datos en Windows 11

Enviado por Fabio
Recall, la nueva memoria fotográfica de Windows 11, tiene una vulnerabilidad que permite a un hacker acceder a todos tus datos.

05/06/24 | hace 408 días | hipertextual.com

Windows XP can run on an Intel CPU from 1989 thanks to dedicated modder

Enviado por Fabio
For those of us who came of age in the early days of personal computing, the names \"Intel 486\" and \"Windows XP\" evoke a nostalgic whirlwind of memories. The 486 was the hot new CPU of the early...

22/05/24 | hace 422 días | www.techspot.com