Jan 19, 2026
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What was the secret sauce that allows for a faster restart of Windows 95 if you hold the shift key?
An old flag from 16-bit Windows.
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Dec 23, 2025
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When irate product support customers demand to speak to Bill Gates
So transfer them to his office, or so it seems.
Nov 25, 2025
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The apocryphal origins of the Hot Dog Stand color scheme
Challenge accepted.
Nov 11, 2025
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Behind the scenes on how Windows 95 application compatibility patched broken programs
Replacing bytes with the greatest of care.
Nov 10, 2025
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How did Windows 3.1 distinguish two different programs that happened to share the same executable name?
The trouble with disambiguation.
Nov 4, 2025
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The Microsoft SoftCard for the Apple II: Getting two processors to share the same memory
Reportedly Microsoft's first hardware product.
Nov 3, 2025
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Why does SHFormatDateTime take an unaligned FILETIME?
Designed for its original use case.
Oct 28, 2025
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How did the Windows 95 user interface code get brought to the Windows NT code base?
Ported bit by bit.
Oct 24, 2025
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The early history of the Windows Runtime PropertyValue and why there is a PropertyType.Inspectable that is never used
It used to be there because PropertyValue started out as the fundamental variant type before shifting focus to being the fundamental boxed type.
Oct 20, 2025
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What about the icons in pifmgr.dll?
Just for fun.