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My Windows Quiz!
I was inspired by the one on the winhistory.de site, it was a lot of fun and took me a good few goes to get all of them right. So I made my own one, there are 20 questions currently but I will add more as I think of them.
1. Which of these Windows commands did not exist in MS-DOS?
2. Which was the last Windows version to include the NTVDM (NT Virtual DOS
Machine)?
3. Which is the first user mode process to start when the OS boots?
4. Which limited edition product was used to promote Windows 11 during its
launch back in 2021?
5. Which is the last Windows version to fit on a standard CD?
6. What was the big change in the graphics architecture between Windows 7 and
8?
7. Which Windows version reached end of support in 2010?
8. What is the name of the internal function that is called when the system
crashes?
9. Why was the XP marketing slogan changed only a few weeks before its
release?
10. Which is the Windows NT epoch (internal reference date to measure system
time)?
11. Which two ASCII characters can be found at the beginning of every Portable
Executable file? (These include .exe, .dll, .mui, .sys, and so on)
release?
12. Which of these is the default shell in Windows 3.1?
13. How many different BSOD codes are there? (approximately)
14. Which of the following was not one of the sample songs included with
Windows 7?
15. Which of the following was moved into kernel mode starting with NT 4.0 in
1996?
16. How long was Windows 8 supported for?
17. Which of the following parts of Windows are mostly written in C++?
18. What is the internal codename for Microsoft's latest project to improve
Windows 11?
19. Which was the first version of Windows to have a startup sound out of the
box?
20. Which one of these programs was not included with the very first version of Windows in 1985?
