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  2. Bliss (photograph) - Wikipedia

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    Bliss, originally titled Bucolic Green Hills, is the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It is an unedited photograph of a green hill and blue sky with white clouds in the Los Carneros American Viticultural Area of Wine Country, California. Charles O'Rear took the photo in January 1996 and Microsoft bought the rights ...

  3. List of Easter eggs in Microsoft products - Wikipedia

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    "The Windows Team" Easter egg in Windows 1.0x. Microsoft Bear appearance in an Easter egg Windows 95 credits Easter egg Windows 98 credits Easter egg Candy Cane texture in Windows XP. Windows 1.0, 2.0 and 2.1 all include an Easter egg, which features a window that shows a list of people who worked on the software along with a "Congrats!" button.

  4. ‘Searching’ turns a computer screen into compelling cinema

    www.engadget.com/2018-08-27-searching-john-cho.html

    Searching opens with the bright blue and green of the Windows XP login screen. We watch as Pamela, David's wife, creates a user account, sets up her email and collects family photos. These are all ...

  5. Winlogon - Wikipedia

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    Classic "Begin logon" dialog box on Windows XP Windows 11 lock screen, requiring user to press Ctrl+Alt+Delete.. Winlogon (Windows Logon) is the component of Microsoft Windows operating systems that is responsible for handling the secure attention sequence, loading the user profile on logon, creates the desktops for the window station, and optionally locking the computer when a screensaver is ...

  6. The quest for Autumn: Windows XP's elusive backdrop - Engadget

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    Although Autumn may not be most people's default background in Windows XP, it's still well regarded, and for one Vanity Fair writer, it sparked a worldwide quest to find its origin. Expecting the ...

  7. Windows 10 review: the best of Windows 7 and 8 - Engadget

    www.engadget.com/2015-07-28-windows-10-review.html

    The default dark theme felt a bit more mature than Windows 8, and you can also flip on an option that automatically pulls an accent color from your current desktop wallpaper. Overall, Windows 10 ...

  8. Blue screen of death - Wikipedia

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    The Blue Screen of Death in Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 (RTM–1511), which includes a sad emoticon In the Windows NT family of operating systems, the blue screen of death (referred to as " bug check " in the Windows software development kit and driver development kit documentation) occurs when the kernel or a driver running in kernel ...

  9. User profiles in Microsoft Windows - Wikipedia

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    NTUSER.DAT. Within the root of the profile, a file named NTUSER.DAT contains the user's personalized settings for the majority of software installed on the computer; including Windows itself. When the user logs on, NTUSER.DAT becomes merged with the computer's registry, such that it appears as the HKEY_CURRENT_USER branch of the registry tree.