History of Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows has been around for over 30 years. Their critics sound like their are the bumbling fool that has only been around a few years.

As a little review below is a brief history of Windows.

• 1985- Windows 1.0
• 1987- Windows 2.0
• 1990- Windows 3.0
• 1993- Windows NT & 3.11
• 1995- Windows 95
• 1996- Windows NT 4.0
• 1998- Windows 98
• 1999- Windows 98SE
• 2000- Window ME
• 2000- Window 2000 Professional
• 2001- Windows XP (Home & Professional)
• 2002- Window XP (Media Center & Tablet
• 2007- Windows Vista

For more details on the evolutions of Windows check out Microsoft History

No readers

What do you do when no one reads your blog? Especially when you have tried all you can think of to do.

What am I doing wrong???

More Than One Print Types

Some people have just one printer connected to their computer. Some have a All-in-One fax, scanner, and printer combo. Then their is people like me who have a printer along with print type programs.

Yes, I said print type programs. These are programs that print to a file, not a physical printer. The The most common ones print to a PDF format. (Portable Document Format) These printed type files save paper. This allows emailing of a document that can be later printed.

You don't have to buy a program that prints to a PDF format. Quicken, and Microsoft come with it packaged with it's product. Then there is a number of free programs that act as a printer from most any program that allow you to print to a printer.

Below is list of my printers. Only one is a phyical printer. It is the LaserJet 4L.

Printing; Stop and Start

I am more than likely the worse when it comes pushing my computer to the limit. This holds true for my printing habits. I will my printer backed up waiting to print an invoice, map, and special instructions for a job.

Don't worry printers have what is called a queue. This is a holding area for print jobs waiting to be printed. You can see what is in your printers queue by follow the steps below:

1. Double-clicking the printer shortcut on the Windows desktop. If you haven’t made such a shortcut, right-click the printer icon in the System Tray. This is found on the far-right side of the Windows taskbar. select Open All Active Printers and Faxes on the pop-up menu that appears.

2. The window with the print jobs queued up for your printer opens, you can do any of the following things to the contents:

• Pause the printing of the documents in the print queue,
  
• Choose Printer
  
• Cancel one or all Printing
• Remove a particular file from the print queue
• Change the position of a document in the print queue, drag the print queue description to a new position in the list

Note: You can not move a print job to a new position in the queue if the document status shows that the job is currently being printe

Cache Pronounced Cash,

As computer developed over time. Programmers and engineers saw that computers were going to be required to do more with less. They build into computers a little thing called Cache.

Cache is extra storage of memory. There is Cache in any storage device on your computer. It is a good thing. So when you are buying your next RAM or Hard drive, and you see a number in front of Cache; it is a good thing.

Record Sounds

During the end of the school year, my daughter was practicing for a talent show. I got tired of hearing her walk around the house singing out of tune. So set up her computer with a headset and microphone. I used the Windows Sound Recorder.

I left clicked on the Start button. > All Programs > Accessories > Entertainment > Sound Recorder. This open the Sound Recorder and select File menu then New.
All she needed to do to begin recording, is left click the button with the big red dot.

When she was finished all she had to do was press left click on the button with the black square to stop recording. To play it back all she had to is left click on the triangle button. This way she could hear how she sounds when she sings.

Windows Sound Recorder can save it in a wave file, for future reference. This is done by left clicking on File menu, select Save then give your new file a name, and then click the Save button

Power Nap for Your Computer

A program hanging up, the computer running slow is not a time to panic. If you don't turn you computer off. Maybe it is time to give your computer a Power Nap.

All those electrons running through the processor, to RAM don't get much rest. If you bounced around like they do, you would get tired, also.

If you work you computer, like I do. The best thing for it is to turn it off 3 or 4 times a week. You will find that your computer computer will run better.