Fun fact, those icons are actually called little logos.

Little icon, those fun facts are called actually

Wow 😮

Actually they're called fun facts, those actual logos@@AoiRozlin

Fun fact, those icons are actually called little pictures with words under them.

That's what the keyboard number pad is for. It should still work after dialing.

The program expects numbers and a few symbols. If you type a symbol that it is not expecting it will crash. It is easier to make the buttons with the expected input than disable the keys you are not supposed to type on your keyboard. A lot less work.

@@oardudeOr you can just check if the key is valid and pretend you didn't press anything if it's not valid.

@@IsYitzach And if you don't have a keyboard? If you're using a pointer by blowing into a tube because you're a quadriplegic or something? 🤨 Then what? Open the OSK when the dialer could just have have a keypad built-in?

@@I.____.....__...__ They don't know or care about disabled people, accessibility, or user-friendly intuitive skeumorphic design!

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Yeah, that was one I missed

Welp the advantages of successfully make a program with minimal closed source library that can break anytime is that it will just works and somewhat fixable.

🤢

Problem with HT is that it wasn't owned by MS, but only licensed to be included in Windows up until XP. From Vista onwards you needed to purchase it, and not from MS.

*Until Windows XP Service Pack 2

And the guy who mostly made it, is on KZfaq too! @DavesGarage

​@@VincentMartens93- he was (one of) the devs who created task manager, but did he do program manager too?

@@UserNameAnonymous Ah wait, I think I got confused between the two.

Task Manager

Winux95

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Linux users trying not to tell the world they use Linux; Task: Impossible

​@@Abu_Brandino yup

I use arch btw

Windirstat

@@VividFlash WizTree is better nowadays

I love the Windows 93 disk fragmenter as it lets you play snake

I popped the drive out of my old Win95 machine and put it into my brand new XP machine back in the day, I ran the Win95 defrag, and it was super fast on XP.

"Drive contents changed. Restarting."

I still use 15 year old software to break in to new computers (when people forget their passwords, obviously). Ping and tracert have been around since the 80s.

The fact they are still using the actual Windows 95 graphic says a lot about Microsoft as a company. I think it is utterly pathetic they can't spend 2 minutes making a new icon. Thankfully, we are close to the point where x86 and Windows will just drop off like the necrotic limb they are. They are a day late and a dollar short for WARM (Windows on ARM), and it is more like lukeWARM.

Yeah, the only one of these I don't use is the phone dialer. The rest I use anywhere from every few months to daily.

@@Lurch-Bot "x86 dies and RISC backfills" I want to believe... truly I do. If we ditch x6 and we take away the SIM from ARM how will they spy on us though?

Especially control panel and the godmode folder!

that's only if they're not 16bit, which some are :( the worst part is that sometimes Win9X programs are 32 bit but the installer is 16bit, so basically impossible to install without pulling some mad hax

Time to get starlink! (or wait for it's competitors to become viable if you don't wanna make Elon richer)

Yeah, internet in rural areas is still quite lacking. I live in a rural area and we didn't get fiber until like a year and a half ago. The other options were satellite or awful DSL (3mbps on a good day .7mbps on a bad day) but the problem with the DSL besides it's speed was the price. CenturyLink only had tiers available for "High Speed internet" with that nice little asterisk by it '*Some areas do not have high speeds, FU.' They charged 80$ a month for it, it would be all cool if they had priced it accordingly but CenturyLink are crooks like most modern telecom companies. Oh yeah, they also stole a bunch of money from the state and fed to 'expand rural broadband' with and then did absolutely nothing, if only giant companies actually got punished for being thieves.

I hope it's at least a DSL and not 56k.

I remember those days it was pre-2000 and my modem wouldn't connect past 32K, crappy phone service, I also remember when I upgraded past 2400 buad to 9600 and I had to have the phone company come out a fix the lines. They wouldn't do it since they didn't support past 28,800. So when my city went to cable internet, I signed up to be one of the first to get it. Back then it was only $5 more than a phone and a dial-up service. I dropped the dedicated phone line for the modem.

Wait what?

Nintendo Wiimotes can be used as Bluetooth controllers in windows. When you connect to them it asks for the password but the password is nothing. Settings menu doesn't let you proceed with nothing in the text field but the control panel version does. Love the old control panel

funny but why

If you are adding a print driver, even via the newer Settings menus and then select "Have Disk..." it will revert to "A:" if you haven't got a previously remembered folder in it - back to the good old floppy disk days.

But nowadays everything is plug and play, you either connect wirelessly to the printer or just plug it in and it works. That feature is useless today.

​@@sylver369Or another outcome is that it doesn't work.

I used it last Sunday to get up and down arrows in a project for work. Comes in handy.

win + . is the modern replacement. Handy, because it lists the recently used symbols so typing in often used weird symbols is very fast.

@@IamR3D88 For some reason, I thought you were about to say you used charmap last Sunday to the OP's mother. 😂

It so amazingly useful that pin it to the taskbar right next to the calculator. Underrated Windows feature to be sure!

Never knew the Alt Codes were shown in the bottom corner of the Character Map window.

But it was also a disk grinder - win3.1 asked for a lot less

Floppy disks? Don't you mean "3D printed save icons"?

and those diskettes used proprietary format, so they stored not 1.44MB but actually 1.8MB each.

@@mexmer3223 A memory jogger. I had forgotten that.

@@mexmer3223The format wasn't completely proprietary in the sense of Microsoft-only though, I used a DOS package named fdformat and the fdread TSR that could let me format some of my own.

Paint has a new ui now

Windows Paint, comes from as far back as Windows 1, along with its partner, Calculator. Maybe Write/WordPad will come back as freeware like File Manager?

Animation?

@@bandito241 Yes

Yay! We used to create cartoons in Paint some 20 years ago! That was fun!

These medical professionals who still use fax are horrific. Are they still practicing medicine the same way they did in 1993?

​@@Charleigh_CopleyCouldn't you just send it via US Postal Service?

FAX machines are used primarily because of their security. They cannot be hacked. Both medicine and legal services use FAX.

@@UltimatePerfection Yep! Until a few years ago, the only computer in my family doctor's office was a 1993 Macintosh Classic II!

@@UltimatePerfection - Postal service isn't fast enough, and the medical profession is (as a whole) distrustful of encryption because it may not be end-to-end, but they know a fax is. Nevermind how easy it is to listen in on fax tones in flight. And with painful fines for violating HIPAA they prefer the simplicity of faxing, even if most systems start and end with an email to the fax service these days.

There was a major change to how drivers worked with the OS that started with Vista. Ultimately it was an important and more secure way of doing things, but it caused a lot of early adoption issues. 7 was basically Vista 1.1, basically the same deal under the hood in a lot of ways, but by then 3rd party drivers were more compatible with the changes.

This is why I never liked any Windows after Windows XP

@@zugy I agree

​@@zugyIndeed, but was Windows 7 a bigger upgrade than Windows 11? I'd tend to say yes, but I'm not entirely sure since I don't remember Vista too much.

@@zugy “Windows 7” was literally Windows NT 6.1!

Great job windows, you did it.

I knew this, and is why I hate the settings app. I always go to control panel anyway.

Is that true? That's hilarious!

So once again chill guys, this is misleading info from someone who has no idea what they are talking about. Settings is completely independent. However what he accidently was referring to is how a few links in settings will bring you back to control panel.

I love spreading misinformation 🥰

I also really like the modern addition of the emoticon character map (which you can open with Win + . ) 😀

Also useful for obscure symbols for passwords (as long as your phone has the same symbols available-not all do).

I use O&O defrag. You can view a map of the drive and see where files are.

Norton system works from 2003 had a defrag like that too

This is so true,defragger in newer windows are so bad.Doing defragment is same as not doing it.Cause ur hard drive still works very slow even after doing defragment in newer windows os.

Yeah! I won't comment on its effectiveness, I was under the impression that the newer one (made in XP ? Vista ? 7 ?) was better. But yeah, it's basically a completely redone app. Unlike the others which are still mostly the same they were in Windows 95.

LOTS of 3rd-party programs duplicated that behavior. I used to like VoptXP which was the most effective and powerful derangementer of its time which gave _much more_ control than most other defraggers.

Wordpad is what MS is removing, not Notepad.

Watch as I save this guy a half hour every year for the rest of their life: CTRL+SHIFT+V Most the time you should get it as an option in your right click menu, but basically what it does is pastes plain text without the formatting from what was copied. There's a ton of shortcuts on windows with various key combos. I'm sure you can find some videos that mention this, and more, on LTT or techquickie.

In many programs, Ctrl+Shift+V is "Paste unformatted"; it's also often in the right-click menu for where you're pasting to. Searching around, it looks like OpenOffice might use Ctrl+Alt+Shift+V, with the Paste Special menu button as another option. But it also has a setting to make Ctrl+V paste unformatted. I use LibreOffice myself, so I'll add to this after I check what _it_ does for "paste unformatted".

@@Phalanx443I'm aware that it is Wordpad that is being removed. I was just saying I would be unhappy if they someday choose to get rid of Notepad.

@@AaronOfMpls I recently learned about pasting unformatted text, but in Open Office it brought up a menu to choose what kind of unformatted text I wanted. I should probably just use that ctrl shft v shortcut, but I have been using Notepad for decades.

Yeah, I use character map almost every day. No idea why anyone would want to google that shit when you can do it locally.

there's a better third party one, called Babelmap, which pairs great with Babelpad. Somehow I managed to extract all of the fonts from Babelpad, so along with all of Microsoft's suplemental fonts, I have fonts for nearly every language.

Win + . does the same thing

Try Linux

You mean almost 30 years newer?

yep i've been using windows for years and this is the first I've heard of it. And yep it opened up on my Windows 11.

Right now. Someone managed to compile win95 to WebAssembly, so you can run it in a browser tab.

or use a virtual machi- oh wait, modern processors cant run windows 95 inside virtual machines

@@rikschaaf Is there a way to have it normally

Like a dual boot?@@rikschaaf

_pcem_ _pcem_ Sorry, had something in my throat.

Task Manager got a pretty big overhaul though. I can't remember if it was a W11 change or one of the newer editions of W10, but it's reasonably different to the old one. The others I definitely agree with.

I use RegEdit fairly often.

System Restore was introduced in ME

​​​​@@samhobday1274Task Manager got a major overhaul in 8, and again in 11, though you can still run Windows 8 Task Manager in Windows 11 by running the 32-bit version in Smthe SysWOW64 folder

Why did you think that?

@@sebclot9478 Because they said "Windows 95 in it". People usually refer to something being IN an OS if it's part of the OS, whereas applications are usually referred to as being ON an OS. For example, if someone is using someone else's computer, the temporary user would ask the owner "Do you have Edge on here" if Edge is their favorite web browser, not "Do you have Edge in here", even though Edge comes with Windows. As a result, my mind went searching for what from Windows 95 could possibly still be IN a modern OS. There are lots of potential answers to this, but kernels and drivers are the main 2 topics that KZfaq videos cover when covering the internals of an OS, and I knew for certain that modern drivers are very different from Windows 95 drivers, but I was less certain about the kernel.

And here it is: The linux snob.... jk, I use manjaro...

​@@raminatox And here it is: another linux snob... Jk i use Arch

​@@SethTheKitsuneAnd here it is: another linux snob... Jk i use Android

@@not2hot99And here it is again: another linux snob... jk, I use Pop!_OS

And here it is: The linux snob jk, I use arch btw

Keep in mind that the file system on NT and it's ofspring (NTFS) was NOT the same as the older file system from MS-DOS that Win 95 inherited. A WIn95 based defragger WOULD NOT WORK on NT. 2000 was "combined" from WIn98 and from NT4, it and all of the later versions had both file systems available to hard drives, depending on which you selected when you formatted the drive.

but they are actually from windows vista. the installer is unchanged since nt 6.0

Also the same when you do a Windows Defender scan offline from what I remember.

@@Jaguarek62 you're right, I even knew it was from Vista but my mind told me to write 7 for some reason. That said it's still almost 20 years old and I know it might sound like something minor but as someone that often installs and formats computers seeing they still haven't updated that to something more modern with the current UI is crazy.

He means clicking each digit instead of just typing them on the keyboard

1 There's a one from my num pad. I'll be surprised if that didn't work.

@@IsYitzach It's nice that you have a numpad, but not everyone does, some people don't even have keyboards at all, in fact, some people don't even have hands. It's like NOBODY remembers accessibility is a thing. 😒

@@I.____.....__...__ how many keyboards dont have the number row above the letters?

There is a keypad that one can click on the modern "Phone Link" Windows app that does the same thing, except for a linked cellphone rather than a landline phone. I use it often!

Speaking of which, I missed those old screensavers. Windows 7 bubble screensaver was my fav.

...and wipes

Schön, daß das geht. Oh wait, wir hatten 2006 ne Rechtschreibreform?

@@bspringer ich war damals 1999 in der ersten klasse, also hab ich die reform von 1996 gelernt. mir war garnicht bewusst das da später noch was geändert wurde 😅 laut wikipedia wars 2004 und dann 2006.

It is actually ʃ rather than f. Historically ʃ was used in the middle of a word and s at the end.

Sure, but it got a complete remake in Windows 8.

It's one of the windows I've kept open pretty much all the time since my computer in 2019 had some issues

The person who created the original task manager David Plummer has an excellent video called "Inside Task Manager with the Original Author" on the history of Task Manager on the Channel Dave's Garage. He came onboard during the Windows 95 days.

The current version just stops responding if I leave it open over night on the 96-core

That’s not that old. On 95 or 98 was just like alt-tab with the ability to kill (pardon terminate) applications

Heck, I was still using those in Windows 7 (along with a few icons from the Windows 95/98 Plus! themes). They came in handy for shortcuts to DOS games I was launching through DOSBox. (These days I run Linux, and haven't bothered to make shortcuts to my DOS games -- beyond making .bat files for within DOSBox itself, anyway.)

Nobody cares

Did you use CP/M or RT-11?

@@bricefleckenstein9666 Well .. let's just say I had a 300 baud modem for my C-64 lol .. right next to the audio cassette tape data storage drive.

@@THE-X-Force I had the Commmodore 300 for a while, don't think I ever bothered with the cassette drive. But that was about the 5'th computer I used regularly, behind a S-100 bus machine, a Kaypro II then a IV, and a TRS-80. I didn't end up with the Xerox 820 motherboard or the Bigboard and BigBoard II machines 'til after I had the C64.

Have you tried the Scanner program in Windows? It literally only scans.

I used it on my old old desktop last year, and my laptop a few months ago

People think performance is the only issue and forget about data-recovery. 🤦

SSDs work in a way that defragmantation has ZERO EFFECT on their speeds. There is ZERO need to defrag them.

@@bricefleckenstein9666 Nope. Sequential read speeds are orders of magnitude higher than Random read speeds (100 MB/s RRS vs 7000 MB/s SRS as an extreme example). Your SSD is fragmented = files are spread in random chunks = they are read at Random read speeds = that is slower.

​@@bricefleckenstein9666in simple words, there is an index which has information about physical location of files. Fragmented files have a lot of such addresses that SSD Controller needs to access which does reduce speed. Even RAM slows down when it comes to random access but not as much as SSD as RAM has wider bus width ( more pins for data transfer)

@@swapnilkumar9363 Tue real world difference isn't orders of magnatude in modern SSDs. I did underestimate the difference - it CAN be 3x-5x different (taking real world numbers from the Samsung EVO 960 in multiple tests). It does seem very odd to see such a big difference on a device that takes NANOSECONDS to access each data block in either mode - and for most folks you'd never notice the difference. Defragging does have the "damage the device due to the writes" issue either way, and THAT there is no way around. Wear leveling also renders the "speed increase" less than you might expect as sometimes the 'sequential' block really isn't.

I wonder if Windows will ever add a Compose key, like I've gotten used to having in Linux. It makes for more intuitive shortcuts for these characters, like [Compose]+[s]+[s] for _ß,_ or [Compose]+[o]+["] for _ö._ (I set my right Windows key as Compose, since Unicomp keyboards put it in a convenient size and place for it.)

Alt+225 does the job as well.

​@@AaronOfMpls set your keyboard to International English (US Intl with dead keys) on Windows and the alt graphic key to the right of the spacebar becomes the compose key.

On the phone just long press the S to get the ß eszett this works for all the accented characters on a smartphone. just long press the character to get the extended characters

@@katamsterdamI set up 3 keyboards, English (United States), English (United States) United States-International and Greek to cover most of what I need. It's easy enough to toggle when I need to do so, unfortunately, I usually don't recall how to compose the Greek characters when I need them. English International is pretty easy to use, but I keep the generic English around because International keyboard is a PITA when you are programming. I do miss the old keyboards that included the compose key though. Ironically, I had no idea how to use it back then.

There are other issues involved in cases like that, NOT the "fragmentation" itself. Probably you have one or more bad sectors that didn't get a chance to get "rotated out of usage", or it's an old SSD that didn't have the "rotate spare sectors in place of dead ones automatically and internally" option.

The closest thing to a Windows 94 would have been Windows for Workgroups 3.11 But I think that came out in 1992 or 1993.