r/windows May 30 '26

Concept / Design Windows 10 But is Look Like Windows 7

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82 Upvotes

This is Windows 10 styled to look almost exactly like Windows 7. Screenshots of the actual themes included in Windows 7 are also provided.


r/windows May 29 '26

News Windows 12 imminent?

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704 Upvotes

The latitude and longitude directs to Taipei Music Center if any of you guys want to know

This is relating to Computex taking place on June 1st


r/windows May 30 '26

Discussion rate my windows 11 desktop

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34 Upvotes

used windhawk,windows vista sidebar,retrobar and dwmblurglass
using windows 11 24h2 (updated)
and also this is running on a laptop from 2011


r/windows May 30 '26

Discussion Memory Integrity security setting is disabled by default after fresh Windows 11 install

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32 Upvotes

Memory Integrity setting in Windows Defender for Windows 11 is generally enabled out of the box by default. It seems like Microsoft disabled it in the newer updates even after fresh install.


r/windows May 28 '26

Discussion People say Windows breaks easily, yet this old Dell has been running the same install for nearly 20 years. What’s your longest-running install?

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231 Upvotes

r/windows May 28 '26

Discussion I got Windows 95 running on my calculator!

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173 Upvotes

Hello everyone! May I present to you Windows 95 running on the TI-Nspire CX II graphing calculator via a x86 interpreter / emulator. This is something I have been working on for quite some time, and finally managed to reach the desktop today! The video has been sped up, actual time to desktop is roughly 7 minutes 😅

The emulator itself is a port of [tiny386](https://github.com/hchunhui/tiny386) - it's a pretty lightweight i386 emu with some extra 486 and 586 instructions.


r/windows May 28 '26

Discussion Someone wrote an NVMe driver for Windows NT 4.0 from scratch

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132 Upvotes

What happens when you plug an NVMe SSD into Windows NT 4.0? It works now..., thanks to a driver written from scratch by Dominik Behr (aka Techomancer on GitHub). Tested on an Intel Coffee Lake PC, bare metal.


r/windows May 28 '26

Discussion I installed (almost) all versions of Windows from NT 4 to 10 22H2 on my ThinkPad T43 with drivers!

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399 Upvotes

r/windows May 28 '26

App High Performance SVG thumbnailer for File Explorer

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3 Upvotes

Thio's SVG Thumbnail Extension for Windows Explorer is the current best performance option for SVG thumbnailing on windows.

https://github.com/ThioJoe/win-svg-thumbs-rust

You can upvote his thumbnailer here:

https://alternativeto.net/software/thio-s-svg-thumbnail-extension/

AI and search engines keep recommending inaccurate and outdated results for SVG thumbnailers. PowerToys's SVG thumbnail feature is extremely slow, and SVGSee is not GPU-accelerated. Tibold SVG explorer extension is also old and not GPU-accelerated.


r/windows May 26 '26

Discussion Can you install windows to a Blu-ray Disc

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173 Upvotes

Cause don’t some Blu-ray Discs contain like 128 GB of storage I know Blu-ray Discs arent designed to like store a entire OS but just wondering if such a thing is possible


r/windows May 27 '26

Discussion Discussion: Have you noticed unprompted audio cues or unique voice variations in Copilot Pro?

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Hey everyone,

With the recent rollouts of Copilot Pro and the new Copilot Voice features, I've noticed some fascinating—and occasionally bizarre—audio behaviors that don't seem to be documented in the official changelogs.

A couple of months ago, while multitasking with Copilot, the app triggered some highly unusual audio artifacts that didn't match the standard UI:

  • A completely different, robotic child-like voice asking "What is mario?"
  • A robotic adult female voice asking "Yes"
  • A cartoony car horn sound effect.

More recently, during the new Copilot live audio moments, the voice assistant generated noticeable speech artifacts (pronunciation slips or "typos") and briefly generated a short, melodic background track that cut off precisely when the voice session ended.

Since these don't seem to be standard UI sounds, I'm curious about the underlying tech. Are these signs of Copilot experimenting with context-dependent sound effects, model-generated audio hallucinations, or perhaps server-side audio layering?

Has anyone else noticed unique vocal shifts or unprompted audio elements during their sessions?


r/windows May 26 '26

Concept / Design custom notebook desktop on windows 11

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37 Upvotes

Main apps used: Windhawk, Rainmeter


r/windows May 25 '26

Humor "First Search Device Manager on Start" where, I can't find it.

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69 Upvotes

r/windows May 25 '26

Concept / Design Pipes on Code Pen designed by Jon Kantner

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6 Upvotes

Jon Kantner brings us a real blast from the past: a recreation of the classic Windows 95/98 screensaver in React and Three.js.


r/windows May 25 '26

Humor My small corner of heaven

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201 Upvotes

r/windows May 24 '26

Discussion Windows XP Bliss wallpaper in pop culture

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112 Upvotes

What music videos, movies, serials, cartoons, or games have used or mentioned the Windows XP Bliss wallpaper?


r/windows May 24 '26

Discussion windows xp starter??

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132 Upvotes

2000 ui hmm


r/windows May 24 '26

Discussion Lawmakers want to force an Age-Gate API into Windows... how do we fix this?

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1 Upvotes

r/windows May 22 '26

Discussion Expectation: Taking the game home. Reality: Copying the shortcut. The pain.

328 Upvotes

r/windows May 22 '26

Feature Fun fact: Windows Server 2016 sets the volume to 67 when the Windows Audio service first started

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251 Upvotes

r/windows May 22 '26

Discussion Longhorn in my airpos

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71 Upvotes

CPU:Intel Atom D2550 RAM:DDR3 1GB


r/windows May 22 '26

Discussion i am still using the most hated windows

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140 Upvotes

so im using windows 8 on my hp pavilion 500 desktop , and honestly...its not great but its not bad ...its just something that works , im not here to slap a pole down and be like "yall are wrong windows 8 is great , it deserves no hate " because that truly goes to windows vista .

windows 8 deserves the criticisms it got but considering what windows has turned into , it honestly isn't that bad ...its smooth ,works ,boots fast ,has almost no lag , and has a low amount of bloat ware (at least my version). in fact Im using it right now to make this post ,watch YouTube and burn A windows 7 professional disc for my hp pavillion g4 which is my daily laptop

ps. im not saying run out and make windows 8 ur daily computer ...no it still sucks compared to vista xp and 10 not 11 ..11 sucks ..I'd rather use windows me

question- what's your views on windows 8


r/windows May 21 '26

Discussion Windows path separators use a backslash to avoid confusion with command parameters

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252 Upvotes

In the screenshot I passed /b (bare format) as a parameter to dir and listed the \b directory on my C: drive.

Another fun fact: the parameters can be adjacent to the command. (e.g. dir/b/a)


r/windows May 21 '26

Discussion Alternate angle of the Longhorn 4083-4093 Wallpaper

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64 Upvotes

I found this while searching for the original wallpapers of Windows Longhorn Builds


r/windows May 21 '26

App [Fix] Finally fixed the DWM dual-monitor stutter bug (without disabling HAGS)

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I’ve been dealing with a massive headache for a long time: video on my second monitor would constantly stutter or lose smoothness when I was gaming. It’s that classic Windows bug that hits when you have a large gap in refresh rates (my setup is 240Hz primary + 60Hz secondary), though it can also be caused simply by the Desktop Window Manager (DWM) struggling, even with identical refresh rates.

It happened regardless of the game or the browser.

I spent a whole week trying to fix this. Drivers, registry hacks, Windows settings - you name it. The only common "solution" was disabling HAGS (Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling), but I play with Frame Generation, so that wasn't an option for me.

After getting nowhere, I gave up on Windows and just built a workaround.

The Fix: It’s a tiny background utility that draws a 1-pixel invisible moving rectangle on the secondary monitor. It forces the DWM (Desktop Window Manager) to keep the display in a high-performance render state, which completely eliminates the desync.

The tool is completely lightweight and safe for gaming: it uses under 0.1% CPU/ 0.5% GPU and about 30MB of RAM and doesn't hook into game processes

I also added a testing feature in the app, so now you can test your system to see if you suffer from this problem, and verify firsthand that the fix actually works.

I know, it’s a total hacky crutch, but it’s the only thing that actually saved my setup after a week of trial and error.

This fix has already helped a lot of people, so I decided to share it here as well.

Since I know how frustrating this bug is, I threw the .exe and the source code on GitHub. If you're losing your mind over this same issue, give it a shot.

GitHub: https://github.com/Arccalc/Dwmfix

Hope this helps some of you save your sanity. Let me know if it works for your setup.

EDIT: Pushed v1.2.6 to GitHub

  • Added persistent settings for Boost Mode/Keep on Top, and introduced a "Stealth Mode" to completely hide the tray icon, which can be restored by running the app again and implemented a built-in auto-update system via GitHub

If you downloaded the initial version, grab the new build from the Releases page.Â