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Windows 10 can now be activated using Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 product keys. [60] The last printer used is automatically set as default printer; this behavior can be turned off. Ability to set default printer by network location is removed. [55] [50] The settings app hosts a central location to manage connected accounts. [55]
Windows Media Center is discontinued, and is uninstalled when upgrading from a previous version of Windows. [15] [12] Upgraded Windows installations with Media Center will receive the paid app Windows DVD Player free of charge for a limited, but unspecified, time. [16]
On May 2, 2017, Microsoft unveiled Windows 10 S (referred to in leaks as Windows 10 Cloud), a feature-limited edition of Windows 10 which was designed primarily for devices in the education market (competing, in particular, with ChromeOS netbooks), such as the Surface Laptop that Microsoft also unveiled at this time. The OS restricts software ...
It is the update users received when they upgraded to Windows 10 through the free upgrade offer or after checking for updates on PCs preloaded with Windows 10. 10.0.10240.16413 [85] [86] KB3081424 Fast ring, slow ring and public release: August 5, 2015 10.0.10240.16430 [87] [88] KB3081436 Fast ring, slow ring and public release: August 11, 2015
Windows 10 includes WDDM 2.0, which is designed to dramatically reduce workload on the kernel-mode driver for GPUs that support virtual memory addressing, [37] to allow multithreading parallelism in the user-mode driver and result in lower CPU utilization.
In computing, protected mode, also called protected virtual address mode, [1] is an operational mode of x86-compatible central processing units (CPUs). It allows system software to use features such as segmentation, virtual memory, paging and safe multi-tasking designed to increase an operating system's control over application software.
Many 16-bit Windows legacy programs can run without changes on newer 32-bit editions of Windows. The reason designers made this possible was to allow software developers time to remedy their software during the industry transition from Windows 3.1x to Windows 95 and later, without restricting the ability for the operating system to be upgraded to a current version before all programs used by a ...
The Windows 7 On-screen keyboard removes the ability to change or specify the font as a result of which keyboard layouts of fonts which use Dingbats and Unicode characters in place of alphabetic characters can no longer be viewed. The Windows 7 On-screen keyboard removes direct access to function keys. Function keys are now accessed using the ...