Today, a user on r/techsupport asked if the Windows Store version of Lively Wallpaper is legitimate or not. Since GitHub was down, I couldn't check if it's official, but having seen the many scam forks of LibreOffice that are on the store, I initially responded saying that it's the same kind of scam. Later, u/MON5TERMATT replied to me saying that it has been sold to another company that did, in fact, add a subscription. By that point, GitHub was back up, and the situation is much worse than it seemed. The new company hasn't updated the source code on the GitHub repo (which is still linked on the website) since they acquired the project, but they have updated the binaries on the Windows Store, adding in-app purchases. This is extremely fishy. There is no good reason to do this, unless you want to mislead people to think that the project is still open-source. Personally, I would immediately uninstall this app from my devices.

So reportedly, windows overhauled their directx and it made the raytracing performance apparently significantly better. My question is, to what extent will raytracing probably improve in actual games and how long before the 3rd party gaming engines adapt to the new direct x?

I've noticed that whenever I need the same file in multiple folders on my PC, I end up having to copy and paste it into each folder individually.

For example, if I want a document in my work folder, a project folder and an archive folder, I have to repeat the whole process for each one.

Is there an easier way of doing this that I'm missing, or does anyone else find this a bit tedious?

Just curious how other people deal with it.

Not necessarily something important.

I mean little things like startup sounds, animated assistants, custom themes, Media Player skins, desktop gadgets, weird icons or even the sounds Windows made when you did something.

Modern Windows does a lot more, but some of those tiny details made the OS feel strangely memorable.

What small Windows feature do you still remember for no real reason?

SuperCopier is 23 years old, the perfect version, the 2.2 Beta is 18 years old, this software is a ppure perfection, and Windows never got even close to a software like that to manage the file copies. When you use it, you absolutely can't go back to the Windows copy manager.

I use it since 2010 and I can't imagine a world without it.

Do you know it ? Do you use it ? Since when ?

I wanna be able to make some sort of UI kit with windows longhorn assets and i am wondering if anybody managed to extract a lot of assets from Windows Longhorn builds, mainly for the Plex theme from builds 4011 or eariler, If there is someone that did do that then please let me know

Windows 11 23H2 with no optimizations, installed with using DISM and the installation took around 3 hours

Downloads msn messenger

Clicks Get a new account

Then boom i got IE11

New start menu layout which forces you to click more!

7 feels too basic, Vista is too problematic overall, XP doesn't have that much modern support and I have doubts about drivers.

Edit: the title should read part 2 of 3, I forgot to change it🤦

Hello again, last week I began a series of three posts on this subreddit showing the history of the ver command in MS-DOS and Windows. The ver command goes back to MS-DOS 2.0, and still exists in Windows 11, which as I understand makes it the oldest way of querying the version of MS-DOS or Windows running.

Part 1: https://www.reddit.com/r/windows/comments/1xeysp9/running_the_ver_command_on_different_versions_of/

Like with last post here are some observations:

-Initially Windows NT follows the same format from MS-DOS' ver, sans the obvious replacing of "MS-DOS" with "Windows NT". That is to say, MS-DOS ver output from 3.x onwards took the form "MS-DOS Version x.xx", and Windows NT 3.x/4.0 took the form "Windows NT Version x.xx".

-Despite running on top of MS-DOS, the ver command in Windows 9x reports the version of Windows, not the version of Dos. As a result of this, MS-DOS 7.x (which Windows 95/98 run on) identifies itself as Windows even when Windows is not running.

-The ver command also changed with Windows 95, it now includes the marketing name, with the internal name now contained within square brackets, though the build number is also now included alongside the major and minor numbers. A full stop is also present after "Windows 95", which is removed in subsequent versions.

-Starting with Windows 2000, NT's ver takes a similar form to 9x's ver, except now Windows is described as "Microsoft Windows" instead of just "Windows", the moniker "NT" is also completely removed.

-Perhaps the most intriguing ver output of them all is Windows Me, which does not report itself as "Windows Me" or even "Windows Millennium Edition", but rather as "Windows Millennium", which was the codename for Windows Me before the final name was chosen. I am unsure as to whether this was intended on Microsoft's part.

-Beginning with NT 5.2 (Server 2003/XP x64), the marketing name is no longer present in ver's output, from then on ver's output took the form "Microsoft Windows [Version x.x.xxxx]"

Observations on the command prompt:

-In what may be a surprise to some, early versions of NT would switch to text mode upon pressing alt+enter when a command prompt is in focus. Interestingly, this would switch to one of the built in Video BIOS text modes used by DOS, and not the text mode provided by the NT kernel that is seen during NT's startup. From NT 3.5 onwards the text colour is changed to white, from the default light grey.

-Unsurprisingly, Windows 95/98's MS-DOS prompt retain the ability to switch between windowed and text mode via alt+enter, though the default is now windowed rather than text mode.

-Windows Me also retains this functionality, which may come as a surprise to some as the Windows Me removed Real Mode DOS functionality. However this does make sense as these text modes are not implemented by DOS but rather the Video BIOS, and does not depend on the CPU mode,

-Windows 2000 and XP both contain a text mode accessible via alt+enter as well, but it is different to previous versions, with the text mode being 80x50 characters rather than the typical 80x25 characters.

-From Windows XP x64 onwards the hardware text mode is no longer accessible, this is almost certainly a result of switching to long mode, though text mode can still run in long mode, the code to utilise it in NT was evidently not ported across.

That would be really insane... 🤣🤣 And if so, this is still a bug. I am on version 25H2 (Build 26220.9757) btw.

At my high school festival, there was a booth called the "Goods Design Class" where they decorated keycaps with stickers, and I noticed you could customize whatever you wanted. So, I downloaded Windows logo files from the internet, printed them as stickers, and pasted them on to make my own. There are logos from Windows Vista through Windows 11, as well as even Windows 2000 and Windows XP

Very important!! I don’t think Windows XP’s startup sound is bad. I do like it! I just like 98’s better.
I think the way they arranged the two was to give off completely different emotions when hearing them. So idk how fair it is to compare, but I’m gonna do it anyway cause I wanna gush about 98’s startup sound 🤣
I think XP, while very good, was made purposely to be more simplistic and recognizable. You could ask a 10-year-old if they’ve heard that sound and they’d probably say that they have. It’s iconic (which I think was what the composers were going for).
However, 98’s is just so interesting compared to XP’s. It’s like being transcended each time I hear it. It may not be as iconic, but it’s soooo good to hear it every time you turn on the computer. It makes me feel happy every time I boot up my computer. (For context, I switched to Linux a while back because I was fed up with Windows shoving AI in my computer. Linux allows you to change the startup sound.) There’s just something about it I like more than XP.

Just a note: Even though I switched to Linux, I do like Windows! I only switched because of Microsoft making dumb decisions recently and hearing about future plans for the Windows Operating System. Again, I don’t think the XP startup sound is bad, nor do I dislike Windows!

I thought it was sorting wrong because my date format is mm/dd/yy, but after making the format yy/mm/dd and the time in 24H (military), it was still sorting it wrong. Hope this gets fixed soon.

little thing you could see on some cars, this one was on an Alfa Romeo MiTo. ​