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Welcome to Windows.
You've heard of Unpartitioned space, I'm sure. You used to have to use FDISK. Be prepared for Microsoft to overwrite your boot sector in this release.
Oh well.
This used to take an hour to install. The modern world has spoiled most users when it comes to technical details.
Oh boy, the Microsoft Kool-Aid's here. Note the usage of the term portion..
Found some orange in the installation. Pointer at the default location.
Windows playing with the video card to get you out of 640*480.
Now you have to use the "Finish" button to get to Windows..
Developers have been fighting about progress bars in Windows for years. Windows XP's minimal start-up indicator implies a brief loss of computer output. Look closely.
Two personal computer towers are shown in the Windows XP tour. I have a hearing disability, so I'm going to yield to that community and not go back to verify the vocal presentation. However I'm sure it's relevant.
Windows Media Player is shown with a curious DVD Video logo setup in its window.
Unlike Apple Computers with its "alias" designation, Microsoft opted to use the term "shortcut".
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Even in this era, developers would pack the user interface to get their message across in the intended place. This isn't a dark art, and some have billions of dollars to waste on redesigning every release to keep people guessing.
M.S.N. showing some curious selection dialogue layout that seems apt to confuse some.
Some strange Windows Media Player visualizations, competing with Justin Frankel's Winamp of that era. Don't look forward to the dreadful choice of bundled song. I think they were trying to ditch computing back then. Bill Gates' billion dollar software company paid someone to type "green is not your enemy". Okay. Some people sure do like their color green. (Down with purple Apple.)
This parking space is reserved for Mr. Emad El-Haraty
Now that all the marketing is latched in, and X is making $44 billion acquisitions to again mark the Spot, whoever that is, did Microsoft really have to rename theming to break the theater people? In the Media software? Come on.
D:\I386\DRW detected
Microsoft Application Error Reporting, originally known as "DW.Exe". Yikes. These programs have digital signatures from Microsoft Corporation.
Slightly different from the previous screen grab. This shows the various attention modes of the user interface. There are very easy and very complex ways to understand how to be interoperable in interfaces such as this. So if you are proficient, due to how the graphical environment is designed, you might be mechanically inclined.
I don't know what to say.
A legacy dialog box shows up to let you know they're paying the support staff differently.
I think Dad would've laughed at this icon.
Some information from the help system about the imposition of DVD region errors. You think the rest of the system would max this one out after Hollywood went bankrupt? What can I say? Any Trump or Larry Hogan ATM receipts? Any more letters to slam into the ratings system?
Accessible or distracting? Windows didn't used to have mouseover events for its widgets.
Speaking of all those friends from autism stuck in "Offline Web Pages".. There was a conspiracy someone tried to start using 9/11/2001 and Wingdings. How unlikely, or as some users might say, silly, is that?
Widget overlapping active usage area
How confusing? Uncertainty adds up.
0-19 or 1-20.. No, it's not The Orioles, it's the similar font Arial. Either way, the H and the initials of the Certificate of Authenticity are riding the right rail. By the way: Merry Christmas.
System Information app sporting "Dr Watson" in a menu overlapping to show the "Forced H" of "Forced Hardware". Somebody somewhere is really running this as a problem. So don't be born having Dr. Watson's initials, I guess. Seems important..
Before Google stole the Microsoft colors, Windows had a useful file search. Here, Windows XP found a limited amount of media. It didn't look in the C:\WINDOWS system folder. It's worth noting, perhaps, the Italian word "scherzo" may hint at a music being a hidden school of thought, or not. Beethoven is activation-bundled with Microsoft Windows XP now, just as he was in the movie "A Clockwork Orange". (sigh)