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Dinosaur Sightings: Windows splash screens from 1.01 to 7

Summary: Check out the splash screens that have graced various Windows operating systems!

Greg Shultz

By Greg Shultz |

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Microsoft released Windows Vista on January 30, 2007

Windows Vista’s splash screen actually has two parts to it, here we have the progress bar…
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Topics: Microsoft, Operating Systems, Software, Windows

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  • Ahh Windows 2000 Professional

    The greatest OS of all time.
    x I'm tc
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    • RE: Dinosaur Sightings: Windows splash screens from 1.01 to 7

      @jdakula YES I loved win 2k pro. Everything else including win7pro has paled in comparison. The most stable, quick and effective os experience i have ever had to date.
      awkward hug
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  • RE: Dinosaur Sightings: Windows splash screens from 1.01 to 7

    I loved booting 3.1 <img border="0" src="http://www.cnet.com/i/mb/emoticons/happy.gif" alt="happy">

    I had to type win.exe to get it to start in dos
    DJK2
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