versions of Windows, and includes functionality for window management, message passing, input processing and standard controls. Windows USER provides a...

The Windows Registry is a hierarchical database that stores low-level settings for the Microsoft Windows operating system and for applications that opt...

Windows 11 is the latest major release of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system, released on October 5, 2021. It succeeded Windows 10 (2015), and is...

User Account Control (UAC) is a mandatory access control enforcement feature introduced with Microsoft's Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 operating...

"[Solved] Where Are Passwords Stored in Windows 10/11". "Password Storage Locations For Popular Windows Applications". "User Name Formats". MSDN. Developer technologies...

improvements to the user interface and memory management. Windows 2.03 changed the OS from tiled windows to overlapping windows. The result of this change...

Windows 8 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was released to manufacturing on August 1, 2012, made available...

representing each user's workspace, and window management is represented via a Rolodex-style flipping mechanism in Windows Vista (see Windows Flip 3D). In...

The Windows shell is the graphical user interface for the Microsoft Windows operating system. Its readily identifiable elements consist of the desktop...

dialogs, control panels, icons, fonts, user notifications, and the "tone" of text used. On Windows Vista and Windows 7 computers that meet certain hardware...

account (Windows XP and earlier) or one able to elevate privileges to superuser (Windows Vista/7/8/10/11 via User Account Control). In Windows XP and earlier...

Windows Vista is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was the direct successor to Windows XP, released five years...

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...

2015. Windows 10 was made available for download via MSDN and TechNet, as a free upgrade for retail copies of Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 users via the...

Windows 7 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was released to manufacturing on July 22, 2009, and became...

for home users until the introduction of its successor Windows XP on October 25, 2001. Windows Me was targeted specifically at home PC users, and included...

A child window opens automatically or as a result of a user activity in a parent window. Pop-up windows on the Internet can be child windows. A message...

C# or Visual Basic. Windows Forms provides access to native Windows User Interface Common Controls by wrapping the existent Windows API in managed code...

user accounts, were moved exclusively to this app on Windows 8 and cannot be performed from Control Panel. As of the October 2020 update to Windows 10...

Microsoft Windows was announced by Bill Gates on November 10, 1983, 2 years before it was first released. Microsoft introduced Windows as a graphical user interface...

Windows Settings (formerly PC settings), or simply Settings app, is a component of Microsoft Windows. It allows users to adjust their user preferences...

respond to the mouse. A graphical user interface (GUI) using windows as one of its main "metaphors" is called a windowing system, whose main components are...

(standard folder on English version of Windows 2000, XP and Windows Server 2003) matching the logon name of the user. Should a folder of that name already...

release, Windows XP received critical acclaim, noting increased performance and stability (especially compared to Windows Me), a more intuitive user interface...

Windows 9x is a generic term referring to a line of discontinued Microsoft Windows operating systems from 1995 to 2000, which were based on the Windows...

Windows NT is a proprietary graphical operating system produced by Microsoft as part of its Windows product line, the first version of which, Windows...

Windows Mobile and Zune. Windows Phone featured a new user interface derived from the Metro design language. Unlike Windows Mobile, it was primarily aimed...

Windows 10 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. Microsoft described Windows 10 as an "operating system as a service"...

A window manager is system software that controls the placement and appearance of windows within a windowing system in a graphical user interface. Most...

Start screen in Windows 8, 8.1 and Server 2012) is a graphical user interface element that has been part of Microsoft Windows since Windows 95, providing...