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I have Windows 7 ultimate on my computer.I tried to make a Ms-Dos floppy disk from the menu format on my floppy drive.But when I start my computer with this floppy on my drive it went on Ms-Dos mode.Then when I typed C: for my hard disk drive or E: (ms-dos command) to change drives it didn't...

Short answer: yes. Long answer: yes, but you may not see much real difference. Before explaining why, there is an important contraindication to be aware of: if you use any 16-bit Windows applications or DOS applications, you'll have to either stick with 32-bit Windows, or run those applications...

Hi! Thought I might introduce myself. My name is Henrik and I live in Stockholm, Sweden. I own a company by the name of Reachground that creates audio for video games. Even though it's common to use MAC for audio I feel more home with Windows which I've been using since 3.1. Before that DOS...

Link Removed Prepare for a trip down memory lane. YouTuber Andy spends what seems like a whole day upgrading Windows, starting from DOS 5.0 and working his way up until Windows 7. Microsoft truly deserves a hand for making this process possible. Andy keeps track of several interesting...

I saw this "Chain of Fools" video yesterday that is brilliant in what it does. The producer uses VMware to show every update to Windows since the very first DOS release more than 20 years ago. It's fantastic in that it shows some of the more historic developments of the technology such as the...

An anonymous reader writes "YouTube user Andrew Tait has uploaded a video titled Chain of Fools: Upgrading through every version of Windows. Tait starts with MS DOS 5.0 running Windows 1.0 and keeps upgrading the operating system until he reaches Windows 7, taking note of the changes to system...

Ever had the urge to put one computer through 20 years of Microsoft Windows history? Andrew Tait (or “TheRasteri” on YouTube) did. He decided to take one virtual machine and put it through the upgrade process from MS-DOS 5.0 all the way to Windows 7, and test out whether settings stuck and...

If you're old enough to remember tweaking your Autoexec.bat and tackling IRQ conflicts, days when launching Windows required typing "win" at a command prompt, prepare for a blast of nostalgia. YouTuber Andrew Tait (aka "TheRasteri") took a freshly minted VMWare instance and spent what looks to...

The Windows install and upgrade process isn’t normally something users get nostalgic over – in fact, more often it’s an anxiety-provoking experience that most would rather avoid – but for one man it’s an opportunity to track Microsoft’s OS progress over the past 25 years. Andrew Tait started out...

Here at Microsoft, we are celebrating the 25th Anniversary of Microsoft Excel by taking a look through its compelling and dramatic history, which is filled with great tech tidbits. In this video, we talk to Scott Oki, Charles Simonyi, Jeff Raikes, and other visionaries behind Excel. We go back...

iam using windows7 32bit,dell inspiron 1525.iam not able to play prince of persia old games.it is a 16 bit ms dos game.and it is showing an error message that the system does not support full screen mode.'choose close to terminate the application . how can i solve the problem.

What to do when you upgrade from DOS to Win7 QUESTION I've decided to replace my Windows 98 PC with a Windows 7 machine, but I'm concerned about transferring Microsoft's QuickBasic suite, which I frequently use. In Windows 7 I'll have to reboot in DOS each time I want to use any of these...

Hi guys Its like this..... I have this evening been getting the blue screen of death. I don't know why this suddenly happened. When I re-boot the windows 98 splash screen comes up, thing is I have never ever installed windows 98 on this machine, then it re-boots itself and starts up in DOS. I...

I recently purchased a new computer. I put the whole thing together but the only thing is I have no cd drives yet. So, I need to boot up Windows 7 another way. The only external hard drive I have is my 500gb My Book. I tried a program called wintoflash, that was supposed to both make my hard...

The CFS site has links to many, many thousands of completely free – and legal – Windows and DOS programs. We have access to archives dating back to the early 1980s! All listed freeware, not hosted by CFS, is freely available to all visitors, as are all our exclusive program reviews. Over 2,000...

I work for a software company that uses several DOS programs and we sell an alarm monitoring program that is dos based and uses the pc speaker to produce sound. Whenever we use any of the dos programs, ie: the database. the dos mail program, a billing program, etc, any sound generated by the...

When will Microsoft provide the feature to print a list of files from within Windows? Of course we can take multiple screenshots, or go out to DOS and use a switch, but come on.... WordPerfect was able to do this back in the early 90's. Or maybe even the lat 80's. :confused:

Until 18th Oct. Fully functional - no time limits. 64 and 32 bit installers. I have been using this for a while - works perfectly on 7 x64. It is the same build as PM10. You don't get the Adaptive restore feature, or the WinPE boot cd. You can run off the Linux /dos based cd from within...

Hi, I've downloaded Win 7 Professional from MSDN and have been trying to install it since midnight yesterday, but still no luck. I've tried a few methods on my laptop and desktop and all FAILED so i'm pretty emo and lack of sleep right now. I'm running windows vista home basic on both...

I have two older (originally DOS) programs which I need. They are database type programs. I was able to zip them from the original programs, install and use them in Windows XP. I have been unable to find a way to carry them over into vista home premium (64 bit). Is there a way to do this...