Windows 10: Microsoft's Windows NT 4.0 launched 20 years ago this week

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Yeah, I had just gotten a copy of WinNT 3.51 when 4.0 was announced so I went with the new, good experience as I was in a computer shop and everything was networked.

:)

 

Panasonic HD Writer AE 4.0

I'm running Panasonic software HD Writer AE 4.0 on Windows 10 and have done so for some years. A few weeks ago the preview function within the program ceased to show any video picture (only sound). No changes or updates were made to anything. I've been
in touch with Panasonic and Microsoft but still no joy. Any ideas?

 

NT 4.0 (Service Pack 5) compatibility mode was available in Windows 7, but not Windows 10.

Original Title - NT 4.0 Compatibility in Windows 10

NT 4.0 (Service Pack 5) compatibility mode was available in Windows 7, but not Windows 10. Is there any way to get a .exe that requires this to run in Windows 10?

Thanks in advance!

 

As a systems admin, I loved NT. Most of the users hated it!

 

I still have mine (NT4 SP1).

I did have it running in a VR, but I lost it in a crash.

Will set it up again one of these days.


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I don't know what you're talking about. I like Windows NT 10.

 

Hi there

over the years I've installed every version of windows --even as far back to windows/286 --that's probably a long time before some members of this Forum were even thought of --much less actually born.

I have to say that Windows NT ranks as THE WORST O/S I've ever used --everything - even simple networking was a major exercise to get it working - you needed a Doctorate in Computer Science even to understand the documentation.

We referred to Windows NT as WINDOWS NEANDERTHAL or WINDOWS NO THANKS,

The best Windows versions were : (IMO)

Windows 3.11 for workgroups
Windows 95
Windows 2000
Windows 2003 Server --- still doing sterling service - it's now on the final chapter but it really was a great networking OS. Windows XP (probably one of the most popular OS'es ever was based on it).
Windows XP
Windows 7
Windows 10

Windows Vista would have been OK but came out too early before hardware was up to it --if you run it in modern hardware on say a VM you can see that it was actually OK.

Dogs were Windows NT
Windows Millenium
Windows 8
Windows before 3.0

And I'm being unkind to Dogs here --especially with Windows NT --a Guiness book of records entry should be submitted for the world's "Most User AGGRESSIVE" system ever to hit the planet.

I remember with horror with horror trying to get simple networking connections and RAS to work. RIP Windows NT and GOOD RIDDANCE -- nobody will miss you --unlike Win XP etc.

Cheers
jimbo

 

You only think you're old, Jimbo. I started on an old IBM mainframe with Fortran back in the early '70s. On the PC side, I first loaded MSDOS 2.11 in 1983. Then upgraded to Windows 1.0 and on up the ladder. NT, was a work in progress. Many core objects carried over into subsequent Windows, most notably the disk file system, NTFS, which is pretty much the standard disk file system for XP on. The biggest complaint that I ever heard about NT was that it attempted to make a clean break from what came before. It simply didn't work like what was familiar to users.