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winfile
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old-new-win32api
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Why does part of the Windows 98 Setup program look older than the rest?
Do you have any recommendations?
I assume this is the one you’re talking about https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/
I was curious, went to the end (page 699!) and it’s pretty interesting. But obviously it’s hard to find the important ones.
- Frontman of Weezer, Rivers Cuomo, is an active developer on GitHub
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Windows NT: Peeking into the Cradle
Not quite. DOS was just the bootloader for Windows 9x.
While Windows 95's kernel didn't have the full feature set of NT, it still was more sophisticated than DOS.
Source: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/?p=24063
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KSP2 is spamming the Windows Registry until the game stops working permanently
Some registry keys also have The Old New Thing posts by Raymond Chen [1] /s
[1] https://github.com/mity/old-new-win32api#registry
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Lookin for a decent C++ data structure resource
Lucky you, Raymond Chen did an overview in his blog series "Inside STL". You can view it here: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/
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Microsoft's backwards compatibility is insane
Yes, Raymond Chen describes such fixes in [several blog posts](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/) and in his book The Old New Thing. Check the old posts, back at the beginning. There are posts about to which lengths they went to ensure buggy applications still worked after an update or a fix.
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Is there a known reason that Vista's startup screen was so plain?
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/larryosterman/ https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/
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Technical articles recommendation
A couple of blogs as an example: - Raymond Chen - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/ - Pavel Yosifovich - https://scorpiosoftware.net/ - Adam Sawicki - https://asawicki.info/index - Matt Pettineo - https://therealmjp.github.io/ - Scratchapixel - https://www.scratchapixel.com/
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Ask HN: Who are tech bloggers with a good archive?
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/
- Why is the FAT directory creation time 24 bits and not 16 bits like the modified time?
winfile
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Why does part of the Windows 98 Setup program look older than the rest?
Ask and ye shall receive: https://github.com/Microsoft/winfile
File Manager, or winfile.exe, was the predecessor to Explorer's file management aspects. You can use it on Windows 10 and 11 (and all the others) if you want to.
Program Manager, or progman.exe, was the predecessor shell to Explorer. It was included with Windows through Windows XP SP1 before finally being stubbed in SP2. You can probably grab the binary from XP SP1 and run it in newer Windows versions, though.
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RIP, WordPad
> Plenty of open source apps are abandoned. The maintainers get tired, too busy, or whatever.
Other people can pick up the baton. For example my window manager of choice is Window Maker which was abandoned for literally years (fortunately since the underlying tech doesn't change every other month, it still kept working) before someone else it picked it up and nowadays there are a few developers working on it.
> If it was open source, the odds are no one would care to take over maintenance (though they could) since it’s basically redundant at this point.
When Microsoft opensourced winfile[0] (the file manager from Win3.x/NT 3.x) some developers did flock to it (i personally even added a small feature to allow for multiple file masks which was merged), so i'm pretty sure the same would happen for an opensourced wordpad.
[0] https://github.com/microsoft/winfile
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[Windows 10/11] [S Files Pro X] [$14.99 -> $0] [Dual Pane File Manager with Colorful Themes]
There's always winfile lol. I wish they'd drop the 95 era file explorer source. That was the best one imo.
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How to split your models among several drives in Windows 10
The ancient winfile (that get revived by microsoft), ctrl+shift drag to make symlink.
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Is there a better file manager than Explorer that I can download?
Joke comment: WinFile if you do not have Windows 11 22H2.
- Valve is paying a whole lot of developers to keep the Steam Deck's open-source software going
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I’m trying to install Monkey Island but don’t know what I should install it on.
Here's the WinFile link, enjoy :) - https://github.com/Microsoft/winfile/
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file manager/windows explorer
Good old Windows File Manager from the early 90s! In the Microsoft Store or github https://github.com/microsoft/winfile
- Windows10Debloater: Script to remove Windows 10 bloatware
- the "folder jump up" problem in Ms windows and it's solution in WinFile.
What are some alternatives?
winforms - Windows Forms is a .NET UI framework for building Windows desktop applications.
ubuntu.com - The official website for the Ubuntu operating system
anbox - Anbox is a container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system
Files - Building the best file manager for Windows
reactos - A free Windows-compatible Operating System
yori - Yori is a CMD replacement shell that supports backquotes, job control, and improves tab completion, file matching, aliases, command history, and more.
GameStretcher - Run 2D Windows Games (GDI, DirectDraw, D3D9) with a stretchable window, and a SuperXBR upscale filter
MS-DOS - The original sources of MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0, for reference purposes
AnyAny - C++17 library for comfortable and efficient dynamic polymorphism
webapp-manager
apps - a monorepo of all my python scripts, modules, and packages
budgie-extras - Additional Budgie Desktop enhancements for user experience