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did you know that there are programs from Windows 95 which came out 28 years

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ago that are still included with Windows 11 let's have a look at some of the more

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surprising ones starting with phone dialer this does exactly what it says it

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will dial a phone number for you it appears to be mostly unchanged since the

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Windows 95 days right down to that very old school pixelated logo that appears

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in the taskbar when you open it if you want to see it for yourself open up the

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Run dialogue and then punch in dialer you'll get a simple interface with a

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space to enter the number you want to call a key had if you'd rather just

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click the digits one at a time for some masochistic reason and eight

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programmable speed dial slots just like the landline phones of yester year of

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course you'll need an actual phone modem in order for this functionality to work

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but the good news is that these are still available for the Retro Computing

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Enthusiast we all know one let's move on and talk about the character map this

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one is still accessible under Windows tools in the start menu and probably

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still has more practical usage than the old phone dialer the character map

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actually goes back back all the way to the days of Windows 3.1 and serves the

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same purpose now as it did then it displays all characters included in a

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particular font and makes it easy to copy the one that you need to the

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clipboard so if you need the trademark symbol or one of the Greek letters to

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advertis your next sorority event or that sharp s that looks like the letter

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B because you're typing something in German cuz they really

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mad you could find it on the character map along with special alt codes for

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some characters that allow you to type them in directly from the keyboard

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Google's ability to quickly bring up a special character has made the character

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map less relevant but it's still quite useful if you know what you're looking

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for or if your internet connection is down but there's another app that Google

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has also made a bit less relevant and we'll tell you what it is right after we

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wordpad which has also been around since Windows 95 has been a Mainstay because

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for a long time it was hard to imagine operating system shipping without a word

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processor in fact it replaced an older program called Microsoft WR that first

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appeared in Windows 1.0 Microsoft has actually done a reasonable enough job

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keeping up with the program the modern version resembles a simpler version of

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Microsoft Word down to the neish ribbon

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UI wordpad has more features than Windows other built-in text editor

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notepad which made it very useful for folks that didn't want to Shell out

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money for a standalone word processor but these days free Alternatives like

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Google Docs offer features that wordpad doesn't such as spell check and

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collaborative tools like comments perhaps this is why Microsoft decided in

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late 2023 that it would no longer be included with new clean installations of

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Windows 11 especially considering that a flaw in wordpad was targeted recently

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byy malware but of course the more cynical take is that they'd rather not

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give a rich text editor away for free when they can try and push people toward

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Microsoft 365 subscriptions Perpetual money and here's

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one more that you might actually still be using regularly if you have a

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mechanical hard drive disc defragmenter

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you can learn more about defragmentation in this video but the gist of it is that

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it'll take any files that have become fragmented and put them into one

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continuous space on your disc speeding up file access this is the big deal for

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mechanical drives as file fragmentation can really hurt performance but

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defragging ssds can wear them out prematurely because ssds aren't

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mechanical there isn't a downside of a file being broken up into to

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non-continuous chunks so instead modern Windows versions give you options for

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optimizing your SSD by running the trim command which prepares blocks to have

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new data written to them since Windows is supposed to do this automatically

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every so often you might not ever touch the dis def fragmentor SL Drive

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Optimizer program anymore which means there's a good chance you've heard its

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feelings and it never forgets but there are other old school Windows features

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that are still around so let us know if you're interested in a part two of this

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trip down memory lane thanks for watching guys if you like this video hit like hit subscribe and maybe hit up that

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video about storage and the defragmentation Glen it's a good one