Who doesn’t remember PC games such as Maniac Mansion, the King’s Quest series and the dubious adventures of Leisure Suit ...

The good news is that there's a fast, highly customizable, and easy-to-use shell on Windows that'll let you experience your terminal in all its 24-bit color glory. And if you use the Windows command ...

(1) Commands and functions that work equally in DOS and Windows. DOS was the underlying control program for the early versions of Windows, and most all the DOS functionality was built into later ...

vDos is one of the DOS emulators for Windows that lets you run DOS programs on your Windows device. You can download it from softpedia.com for free. After downloading ...

Buried deep within Windows’ bosom is a carbon-crusted fossil from the ancient days of computing. This aged wart on Windows’ soul harkens back to a more primitive time, when computers lacked the oomph ...

I’VE JUST LEARNED that my Windows Me Secrets co-author, Davis Straub, recently set a new world record for miles flown in a hang glider. Smashing the 10-year-old record of 308 miles, he launched his ...

The setup file for Windows 95, which was released in 1995, consisted of three types of programs: MS-DOS, 16-bit, and 32-bit. When upgrading from MS-DOS, Windows 3.1 was installed along the way.

ANSWER: Forget what Microsoft tells you about Windows being its own operating system. Windows is just a showy DOS. There’s no reason to subdivide your drive to accommodate both. Linux and Windows/DOS ...

Microsoft talked briefly about the new features in its upcoming Windows 10 operating system, but it glossed over one thing that will surely be of great interest to sysadmins and developers alike: the ...