There used to be a time when you'd log in to your Windows 7 machine, and have enough time to go fetch a cuppa as it thought ...

Windows 11 has been around for less than four years, but murmurings about its successor started long ago. While many believed ...

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Whaddaya mean you don't recognise it? It's the Windows 95 start-up sound, and it's recently been added to the US Library of Congress list of nationally significant recordings. Alongside "Goodbye ...

We may get a commission if you buy through our links. Windows 10 is extremely flexible and your desktop can easily come alive in a few minutes. All you need is a live wallpaper Windows 10. But you don ...

If you’re also looking to add some fresh wallpapers to your desktop, you can download the Windows 50th Anniversary Wallpapers collection. The exclusive Windows 50th-anniversary collection features 16 ...

In the years that followed Windows 95 and its not-very-different successor, Windows 98, new releases tended ... it looked like on top of Vista's Aurora wallpaper. "Microsoft's new OS is a big ...

Microsoft is celebrating its 50th anniversary this week, and it’s offering some new Windows wallpapers to mark the occasion. Over on Microsoft’s Windows blog, Microsoft has published a basket ...

Windows 98 was also the first time we saw Windows ... Ditto for the background wallpaper, Bliss. XP didn’t add that much: ClearType rendered fonts better on LCD displays, prefetching sped ...

Windows 98 continued to embrace the hybrid app support and was similar ... The icons went through an evolution too, and who could forget the iconic Windows Bliss wallpaper? The lush greenery ...

To commemorate the milestone, the company has released eight limited-edition Windows wallpapers with themes familiar to anyone who's been around during the half-century run. Exploring the funnier ...