• 9x series was Windows 95, which was succeeded by Windows 98 and then Windows Me, which was the third and last version of Windows on the 9x line, until the...
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    The Windows 9x series of operating systems refers to a series of Microsoft Windows operating systems produced from 1995 to 2000. They are based on the...
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  • Defunct families include Windows 9x, Windows Mobile, Windows Phone, and Windows Embedded Compact. The first version of Windows was released on November...
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    and by the early 1990s, the Windows line had split into two separate lines of releases: Windows 9x for consumers and Windows NT for businesses and enterprises...
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  • (GUIs). All versions of Microsoft Windows are commercial proprietary software. Basic general information about Windows. * Has partial 32-bit compatibility...
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  • currently running processes and killing them, or creating new processes. Windows 9x has a program known as Close Program which lists the programs currently...
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  • Windows Me (Millennium Edition) is an operating system developed by Microsoft as part of its Windows 9x family of Microsoft Windows operating systems...
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    HKEY_PERFORMANCE_DATA (only in Windows NT, but invisible in the Windows Registry Editor) HKEY_DYN_DATA (only in Windows 9x, and visible in the Windows Registry Editor)...
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  • booting between Windows 9x and DOS. When booting into DOS, they are temporarily renamed CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT. Backups of the Windows 9x versions are...
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  • Windows kernel may refer to: Windows 9x kernel, used in Windows 95-98 and ME Windows NT kernel, used in all Windows NT systems (including Windows NT,...
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    fly. Windows Console apps are distinct from MS-DOS apps, even though on Windows (especially on Windows 9x), they may not look different. Windows Console...
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    work as an operating system, often called a Web OS, and a parody of the Windows 9x series. It was developed and is managed by two French musicians and programmers...
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    contrast to the Windows 9x series, the Windows NT-derived 32-bit operating systems (Windows NT, 2000, XP and newer), developed alongside the 9x series, do...
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    of memory protection in Windows 9x OSes, BSoDs were much more common. The Windows Embedded Compact (formerly known as Windows CE) line of embedded operating...
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  • Edition". Windows Me was the last operating system to be based on the Windows 9x (monolithic) kernel and MS-DOS, with its successor Windows XP being based...
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  • Windows Update is a Microsoft service for the Windows 9x and Windows NT families of the Microsoft Windows operating system, which automates downloading...
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  • Windows Setup is an installer that prepares a computer for a Microsoft Windows installation by allowing the user to pick installation settings (modifying...
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  • Windows 95 is a consumer-oriented operating system developed by Microsoft as part of its Windows 9x family of operating systems. The first operating system...
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  • a version of Microsoft Windows under development in 1999. Based on Windows 2000, it was originally to replace the Windows 9x series and was scheduled...
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  • Windows 98 is a consumer-oriented operating system developed by Microsoft as part of its Windows 9x family of Microsoft Windows operating systems. It...
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  • Windows 2000 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft and oriented towards businesses. It is the direct successor to...
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  • 9X or 9-X may also refer to: 9x, or nine times in multiplication 9X Generation, a Vietnamese term for people born during the 1990s Windows 9x, a generation...
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  • component in the Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95 as System Agent. Its core component is an eponymous Windows service. The Windows Task Scheduler infrastructure...
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  • Windows product line, including eliminating the 16-bit memory access limitations of earlier Windows releases such as Windows 3.1 and the Windows 9x series...
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  • IO.SYS (category Microsoft Windows stubs)
    IO.SYS is an essential part of MS-DOS and Windows 9x. It contains the default MS-DOS device drivers (hardware interfacing routines) and the DOS initialization...
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  • Cmd.exe (redirect from Windows command line)
    COM in DOS and Windows 9x systems, and analogous to the Unix shells used on Unix-like systems. The initial version of cmd.exe for Windows NT was developed...
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    MS-DOS 7 (category Discontinued Windows components)
    included in the Windows 9x family of operating systems. Windows 95 RTM reports it as MS-DOS 7.0, and Windows 95 OSR 2.x and Windows 98 report as 7.1...
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  • starts WIN.COM. In Windows 3.x, the WIN.COM starts KRNL286.EXE (standard mode) or KRNL386.EXE (386 enhanced mode). In Windows 9x, the WIN.COM starts...
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  • MS-DOS Editor (category Windows commands)
    Windows. The Editor may be used as a substitute for Windows Notepad on Windows 9x, although both are limited to small files only. MS-DOS versions are limited...
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    itself continued to be included in Windows 9x releases such as Windows 95, 98, and Me. The program across all Windows 9x releases remained as a 16-bit program...
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