Running Windows 1.0 Apps on Windows 10?

Is it possible to run applications from Windows 1.0 on Windows 10? Let's find out!

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[grantbiteman]

lol I've never seen an app say it was last modified in the 80s.

[wojtekpolska]

Just think about it - They made clipboard function in windows so good, that they didn't do any significant changes in like 35 years (because the program still recognized everything which wouldn't be the case it they significantly edited the code)

[PhirePhlame]

If that was Windows Smartscreen then it would have said something like "Windows protected your PC" and given you the option to run it. "This app can't run" is a compatibility message.

[Uzedrname]

22:09 - Windows: Please hold on while Windows reports this problem to Microsoft

Microsoft employee: Uhhhh... we just got an error report for the Windows 2.0.3 DOS Executable

edit: Wow, I take a vacation, and this becomes my most popular comment by far.

[godie]

Windows 10: Please hold on while we report this problem to Microsoft...
MS Employee: Why is someone still using 2.0.3 DOS executable, and why is it failing?

[ChrisStoneinator]

MSDOS.exe from Windows 1: *exists*
Windows 7: 'Sure!'
Almost anything made before 2015: *exists*
Windows 10: 'No, I don't think I will.'

[mariannmariann]

Actually, the first kind of window control was introduced in Windows 3.0, where doubleclicking the menu opener thing on the top left of a windows closes it sometimes.
Also, Reversi was removed in specifically Windows 3.1.
Minesweeper is also officially in the Microsoft Store.

[kemi]

I never knew, you could still run apps from Windows 2.0 on Windows 10 so far, you can adjust things in the control panel, and log out from MS DOS Executive. This leads me to beleive, there is still some ancient code that dates back to the 80s is still lurking inside Windows 10's kernel.

[NeedForSpeed.]

This program requires Microsoft Windows.
Windows 10: Am I a joke to you?

[MrEdrftgyuji]

The programs from Windows NT 3.1 work fine in Win10, even on 64bit as they are 32bit native applications. Have Win3.1 paintbrush running in 4k resolution on Win10

[iPodee]

the color changes do change throughout the system
15:22 before
20:16 after

[ilcuriosonedelweb]

15:34 Try to run Control Panel as administrator (Windows doesn't allow to change the time/date without admin rights) and disable the auto-sync in the Settings app

[nerfspartanEBF]

Congratulations, you've just convinced me to go through the masochism of installing a Windows 1.0 VM in case, for some remarkably contrived reason, I run into some form of software somewhere that needs it.

[chunye]

I read about this ages ago but can't find it again. It's possible to run 1.0 apps on windows 10. Step one is to use a hex editor and modify the exe header to say it's for windows 2.0. Then you need an old version of the Borland resource editor (or resource compiler? I forgot the name) to recompile the embedded resources from the 1.0 format to a newer format (embedded resources can be icons, text messages, window layouts etc.)

[snbeast]

The Windows 1 MS-DOS executable said "1 byte" when you moused over it.

[meligarcia]

25:35 This painting must belong in a museum :D

[minusone]

The structure of Windows kernel has definitely been changed a lot with transition to NT kernel for performance and stability.

However Windows has not changed Windows API in NT kernel based Windows for compatibility with DOS kernel based one,
so most Windows APIs (like CreateWindow) used in Windows 1.x are still remained with usable state in Windows 10.

Not surprising. I guess most software developed for Pre - Windows 95 can be run in Windows 10,
if legacy codes for 16 - Bit system (far / near pointer, Local / Glocal Memory Allocation) are replaced with modern ones.

[FubarMike]

I would have liked to see if you open windows 3's regedit if you can edit the windows 10 registry. Another thing, try opening a massive modern day photo with paintbrush

[FarhaanIslam]

I'm pretty sure the time and date in Windows 10 is set by the internet and you have to disable it to change the time and date manually?

[PatLund]

I think the time is resetting because you have to setting to automatically sync your time on.