In Windows, users can run DOS programs along side Windows programs. Pressing Alt-Tab switches between all open DOS and Windows applications. DOS programs are usually run in a window so they can be ...

Kenneth M. Frith is moving away from Windows XP (as he should). But he still has some old DOS programs he’s either unwilling or unable to give up. Can they run in Windows 8? The big question is: Does ...

My father is currently using an old Windows 95 machine circa 1999 to run a DOS program which he uses to bill the government. Buying a new program is not really an option because all the modern ...

While most businesses use Windows-based applications, some entrepreneurs still use legacy DOS-based programs that they find useful. Whether it's because the application is no longer being developed or ...

If I play video games they're usually pretty low tech ones. One of the few games I miss from the old days is Duke Nukem, and I'm talking about the Duke before he went 3D. If you have an old DOS game ...

My PC always stated "updating config files" once I updated the msconfig settings. And now it says "Windows 98 loading DOS program" every since a ran this one DOS game. And the Windows 98 startup ...

The Config.sys is the main configuration file used by OS/2, MS-DOS and other operating systems. Config.sys commands loads programs into the memory and sets ups the memory management of the system. The ...

When old programmers like me (I'm 41) get together we talk about the applications from the old days. What happens to these beauties? The answer, obviously, is that their fate only matters if people ...