Windows components

desktop search platform by Microsoft

graphical user interface for the Microsoft Windows operating system

components of Microsoft Windows

an application of Microsoft windows

Windows utility which deletes the contents of certain folders

Automation Technology

component of Windows 2000

Basic word processor formerly included with Microsoft Windows

the shell of Windows 3.x and Windows NT 3.x operating systems

component of Windows in charge of monitoring and displaying alerts about various security- and performance-related metrics

image viewer included with the Windows NT family of operating systems

Edlin is a line editor, and the only text editor provided with early versions of IBM PC DOS, MS-DOS and OS/2. Although superseded in MS-DOS 5.0 and later by the full-screen MS-DOS Editor, and by Notepad in Microsoft Windows, it continued to be included in the 32-bit versions of Microsoft operating systems up to Windows Server 2008 and Windows 10.

configuration interface of Windows 8 or later

web browser of Microsoft

component of Microsoft Windows

AutoRun and the companion feature AutoPlay are components of the Microsoft Windows operating system that dictate what actions the system takes when a drive is mounted.

web browser of Microsoft

Windows utility which defragments a hard drive

Windows audio recording program

In computing, netsh, or network shell, is a command-line utility included in Microsoft's Windows NT line of operating systems. This command was officially launched with the release of Windows XP in 2001, although netsh did first appear on Windows 2000 in 1999. It allows local or remote configuration of network devices such as the interface.

2012 video game

software

Svchost.exe (Service Host, or SvcHost) is a system process that can host one or more Windows services in the Windows NT family of operating systems. Svchost is essential in the implementation of shared service processes, where a number of services can share a process in order to reduce resource consumption. Grouping multiple services into a single process conserves computing resources, and this consideration was of particular concern to NT designers because creating Windows processes takes more time and consumes more memory than in other operating systems, e.g. in the Unix family. However, if

Speech recognition software

Windows' built-in magnifying software

Screen reader for Microsoft Windows

Wikimedia list article

VxD is the device driver model used in Microsoft Windows/386 2.x, the 386 enhanced mode of Windows 3.x, Windows 9x, and to some extent also by the Novell DOS 7, OpenDOS 7.01, and DR-DOS 7.02 (and higher) multitasker (TASKMGR). VxDs have access to the memory of the kernel and all running processes, as well as raw access to the hardware. Starting with Windows 98, Windows Driver Model was the recommended driver model to write drivers for, with the VxD driver model still being supported for backward compatibility, until Windows Me.

photo browser included with Windows

component of the Microsoft Windows operating system used to list and manage hardware

peer-to-peer collaboration program developed by Microsoft

thumb|387px|Installation of a ClickOnce application ClickOnce is a component of Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 and later, and supports deploying applications made with Windows Forms or Windows Presentation Foundation. It is similar to Java Web Start for the Java Platform or Zero Install for Linux.

file format

the centre of the Windows NT security subsystem

software with which Microsoft Windows installs and partitions data carriers and controls the system language and keyboard

desktop notes application included in Microsoft Windows

Interix was an optional, POSIX-conformant Unix subsystem for Windows NT operating systems. Interix was a component of Windows Services for UNIX, and a superset of the Microsoft POSIX subsystem. Like the POSIX subsystem, Interix was an environment subsystem for the NT kernel. It included numerous open source utility software programs and libraries. Interix was originally developed and sold as OpenNT until purchased by Microsoft in 1999.

Features in Windows 10

component of Microsoft's Windows operating system

special folder in Microsoft Windows

text editor in MS-DOS and Windows 9x

Microsoft Windows application

thumb|right|250px|Classic "Begin logon" dialog box on Windows XP thumb|right|250px|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 running (requiring another authentication step). The roles and responsibilities of Winlogon have changed significantly in Windows Vista and later operating systems.

application debugger included with the Microsoft Windows operating system

command used to begin execution of a program

Windows 10 app

part of Microsoft's Windows Live services

component of Microsoft Windows operating systems

DRM mechanism used by Microsoft

online video editor by Microsoft

term

address book application used in Windows XP and before

defunct media player app and digital video service, developed by Microsoft

task switcher and virtual desktop system

Implementation of logical volume manager for Microsoft Windows NT

Software avatar toolkit

Uniscribe is the Microsoft Windows set of services for rendering Unicode-encoded text, supporting complex text layout. It is implemented in the dynamic link library . Uniscribe was released with Windows 98 SE, Windows 2000 and Internet Explorer 5.0. In addition, the Windows CE platform has supported Uniscribe since version 5.0.

Microsoft Windows feature for backing up and retrieving data

The PathPing command is a command-line network utility included in Windows NT operating systems since Windows 2000 that combines the functionality of ping with that of tracert. It is used to locate spots that have network latency and network loss.