Microsoft announced the development of Windows in 1983, a graphical user interface (GUI) for its own operating system (MS-DOS). The 3.x and 4.x family includes DOS, Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows ME. The DOS-based Windows for Workgroups 3.11 achieved the breakthrough from 16- to 32-bit networking and 32-bit disk access. Windows NT family started with NT 3.1 in 1993. Modern Windows operating system versions are based on the newer Windows NT kernel.

A lot of Windows users feels this way unconfortable when they get a hardware of theirs not working optimally and glitches like poor PC performance, computer hangs, hardware failure etc. after they have upgraded their Windows with a newer version or Service pack or sometimes some updates or in due course of time. This is due to incompatibility and obsoleteness of the drivers in their computer. To rectify best thing is to update all the drivers, but to update them all manually is the biggest pain.

Passwords in Windows is one of the strongest way to make your files secure, but what if you forget the password for login? It aint easy to get the lost password until and unless you use help of sites like loginrecovery and pay for them. So the forgotten password cant be recovered easily giving options to get back by re-formatting. Windows account password can be rest by using Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (MDRT). The solution is using Diagnostics and Recovery Toolkit (DaRT).

A lot of Applications & features on Windows requires .Net Framework to be installed over it. Since Service Pack versions of Windows XP, Microsoft has started including .Net framework on Windows. This Chart shows which version of .NET Framework is included in which version of Windows.

However, you may check it in Programs and Features (or Add/Remove Programs) control panel as well.

Chart Via MSIGeek.

FixWin utility is a utility for Windows 7 and Windows Vista, that repairs or fixes 50 common Windows annoyances & issues.

There are several tutorials and how-to’s available on the Internet to deal with such annoyances, FixWin  is a free portable application with size of 529KB, that helps to fix the most 50 common annoyances which may be caused by Viruses Infection, Change of system settings in dilemma & applying unknown tweaks. No registry tweaks required. Simple Click to Fix it up,

There is an issue that when ever click any drive in windows is clicked it opens it in new window and than each every single folder opens in new window.In such cases following actions can be taken to solve the problem :

1. Reset the folder options view

Organize > Folder & search Options > General > Browse Folders > Select “Open each folder in same windows”

Here is a list of versions of Windows, since Windows Operating System 1.0. The distinguish of versions rather than OS names are important for developers and the distinguish of Windows structure. The list can also be found on MSDN OSVERSIONINFO Structure

This Windows Logo Key is getting more and more use on Windows and its application. And it gets utilized even much more in Windows 7. Almost each function and new feature in Windows 7 have the keyboard shortcuts alternative that does the same thing, a lot of which are the combination of Windows Logo Key and the letters. Here are numbers of use in Windows 7 that are quite commonly used.