Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Your PC Still Has Windows 95 In It”.
Did you know that there are programs from Windows 95, which came out 28 years ago that are still included with Windows? 11? Let’S have a look at some of the more surprising ones, starting with phone dialer. This does exactly what it says. It will dial a phone number for you. It appears to be mostly unchanged since the Windows 95 days right down to that very old school pixelated logo that appears in the taskbar. When you open it, if you want to see it for yourself open up the Run, dialogue and then punch in dialer you’ll get a simple interface with a space to enter the number you want to call a key had if you’d rather just click the digits one. At a time for some masochistic reason and eight programmable speed, dial slots, just like the landline phones of yester year, of course, you’ll need an actual phone modem in order for this functionality to work. But the good news is that these are still available for the Retro Computing Enthusiast. We all know one. Let’S move on and talk about the character map. This one is still accessible under Windows tools in the start, menu and probably still has more practical usage than the old phone dialer. The character map actually goes back back all the way to the days of Windows 3.1 and serves the same purpose.
Now, as it did, then it displays all characters included in a particular font and makes it easy to copy the one that you need to the clipboard. So if you need the trademark symbol or one of the Greek letters to advertis your next sorority event or that sharp s that looks like the letter B, because you’re typing something in German cuz, they really mad, you could find it on the character map, along with Special alt codes for some characters that allow you to type them in directly from the keyboard. Google’S ability to quickly bring up a special character has made the character map less relevant, but it’s still quite useful if you know what you’re looking for or if your internet connection is down, but there’s another app. That Google has also made a bit less relevant and we’ll tell you what it is right after we thank delete me. Here’S an issue. Your personal info is floating around online without your say, so totally not cool right, well, delete me thinks it’s downright wrong. No one wants scammers blowing up their phone with robot calls and sketchy emails and delete. Me is here to save the day manually ually.
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Microsoft has actually done a reasonable enough job. Keeping up with the program. The modern version resembles a simpler version of Microsoft. Word down to the neish ribbon: UI wordpad has more features than Windows. Other built-in text editor notepad, which made it very useful for folks that didn’t want to Shell out money for a standalone word processor, but these days free Alternatives like Google Docs offer features that wordpad doesn’t such as spell check and collaborative tools like comments. Perhaps this is why Microsoft decided in late 2023 that it would no longer be included with new clean installations of Windows 11, especially considering that a flaw in wordpad was targeted recently byy malware. But of course the more cynical take.
Is that they’d rather not give a rich text editor away for free when they can try and push people toward Microsoft, 365 subscriptions Perpetual money and here’s one more that you might actually still be using regularly? If you have a mechanical hard drive disc defragmenter, you can learn more about defragmentation in this article, but the gist of it is that it’ll take any files that have become fragmented and put them into one continuous space on your disc, speeding up file access. This is the big deal for mechanical drives as file. Fragmentation can really hurt performance, but defragging ssds can wear them out prematurely because ssds aren’t mechanical. There isn’t a downside of a file being broken up into to non-continuous chunks, so instead modern Windows versions give you options for optimizing. Your SSD by running the trim command, which prepares blocks to have new data written to them.
Since Windows is supposed to do this automatically every so often you might not ever touch the dis, def fragmentor SL Drive Optimizer program anymore, which means there’s a good chance. You’Ve heard its feelings and it never forgets, but there are other old school Windows features that are still around, so let us know if you’re interested in a part two of this trip down memory lane, thanks for watching guys, if you like this video hit like hit Subscribe and maybe hit up that video about storage and the defragmentation Glen, it’s a good one. .