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  2. Blue screen of death - Wikipedia

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    BSoDs in the Windows NT family initially used the 80×50 text mode on a 720×400 screen. Windows 2000, Windows XP, Vista, and 7 BSoDs use the 640×480 screen resolution. Windows 2000 used its built-in kernel mode font, Windows XP, Vista, and 7 use the Lucida Console font, and Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 used the Segoe UI font. BSoDs on ...

  3. QR code - Wikipedia

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    The QR code system was invented in 1994, at the Denso Wave automotive products company, in Japan. The initial alternating-square design presented by the team of researchers, headed by Masahiro Hara, was influenced by the black counters and the white counters played on a Go board; the pattern of position detection was found and determined by applying the least-used ratio (1:1:3:1:1) in black ...

  4. Windows SideShow - Wikipedia

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    Windows SideShow. Windows SideShow (codenamed Auxiliary Display) was a feature by Microsoft introduced in Windows Vista to supply information such as e-mail, instant messages, and RSS feeds from a personal computer to a local or remote peripheral device or display. SideShow was intended to enhance the Windows experience by enabling new mobility ...

  5. ATATool - Wikipedia

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    On Windows Vista and later it requires an elevated-privileges command prompt (see User Account Control). The target drive must be connected to a physical disk controller. The software cannot be used via a USB bridge or similar device. Display detected hard disks: ATATOOL /LIST Display information on hard disk 1: ATATOOL /INFO \\.\PhysicalDrive1

  6. Black screen of death - Wikipedia

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    MS-DOS, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 and Windows 11 display a black screen of death when the operating system cannot boot. There are many different causes for this problem to occur, and each one of them requires a different solution.

  7. My Documents - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft first introduced the "My Documents" folder in Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2, as a standard location for storing user-created files. The folder, located under the root directory of the boot volume. A shortcut to it is displayed directly on the user's desktop . The Windows NT family of operating systems set up the "My Documents ...

  8. Snarl (software) - Wikipedia

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    Snarl (software) Snarl is a notification system for Windows inspired by Growl that allows applications to display alpha-blended messages on the screen. Unlike other forms of notification, Snarl does not hijack the current focused window, nor does it force the taskbar to be visible. Notifications can either be canceled by clicking on them, or ...

  9. Tom Ebersold - Wikipedia

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    Tom Ebersold. Thomas G. Ebersold was an artist and the inventor of Contemporary Cloisonné. He was born in Santa Monica, California in 1943 and died in March 1976, from cystic fibrosis. [citation needed] He grew up in Vista, California where his family moved to in 1946, when he was just two. He spent most of his life in Vista, where he attended ...