Whatever, the icons are 32 by 32 pixels and 16 colours, though Windows 95 did actually support 256-colour icons. And if you ...

David William Plummer began his career at Microsoft as an intern on the MS-DOS team and was later offered a full-time position. During his 10 years ...

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The Windows clipboard history is a useful tool for looking back on something you copied and pasted not too long ago. Operating systems like Windows 11 use the clipboard to help store text and images ...

I’ve pinned a whole lot of stuff to my Windows Clipboard — so much stuff that I’d forgotten that there were screenshots of ID cards in Clipboard history for a license renewal I did once. I nearly fell ...

Windows File History is still the easiest, cheapest (free) continuous data protection software for Windows. The Add folder function has been removed, but it will back up Libraries you create yourself.

Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer Select, back when CDs were new-fangled, and IBM's PC XT was wowing the crowds at Comdex. He spent more ...

Backing up your documents and other files in Windows is always advisable in case the originals ever get lost or corrupted. That's especially true for files that are important, sensitive, or ...

Clipboard history is a useful productivity feature that can help you save lots of time in a workday by ensuring the various items that you copy/cut — from snippets of text to URLs — are all easily ...