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10 easy software tweaks to make an old Windows laptop feel like new

Your old Windows laptop will feel like new by the time you’ve gone through all these software tweaks. If you still notice ...
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Warner Bros., DC Comics Poised to Keep Superman Foreign Rights

DC Comics Inc. and Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. are likely to retain the foreign rights to Superman after a Manhattan judge said Thursday one of the heirs of the superhero’s creator gave away the ...
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Inside the Windows 1.0 reunion: How a scrappy team shipped the product that changed everything, eventually

Members of the Windows 1.0 team at their 40-year reunion this week. L-R, kneeling/sitting: Joe Barello, Ed Mills, Tandy Trower, Mark Cliggett, Steve Ballmer (holding a Windows 1.0 screenshot) and Don ...
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Windows 3.1 included a red and yellow 'Hot Dog Stand' color scheme so garish it was long assumed to be a joke, so I tracked down Microsoft's original UI designer to get the ...

Every so often, a wonderful thing happens: someone young enough to have missed out on using computers in the early 1990s is introduced to the Windows 3.1 "Hot Dog Stand" color scheme. Back in the day ...