Книга: Windows 95: Windows 95, Internet Explorer 4, Make Compatible, Taskbar, Start Me Up, Drivespace, Full Tilt! Pinball, Hover!, Windows Messaging

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Windows 95, Internet Explorer 4, Make Compatible, Taskbar, Start Me Up, Drivespace, Full Tilt! Pinball, Hover!, Windows Messaging, Windows Desktop Update, Activemovie, Internet Explorer 1. Excerpt: ActiveMovie running under Windows Vista ActiveMovie is a streaming media technology now known as DirectShow , developed by Microsoft to replace Video for Windows . ActiveMovie allows users to view media streams, whether distributed via the Internet , an intranet and CD-ROMs . Originally announced in March 1996, the first version was released in May 1996 bundled with the beta version of Internet Explorer 3.0 . When ActiveMovie was installed an option was added to the Start Menu to launch the ActiveMovie Control . This allowed users to play multimedia files and thus was a rudimentary media player. In March 1997, Microsoft announced that ActiveMovie was going to become part of the DirectX set of technologies, and by July it was being referred to as DirectShow. Version 5.2 of Windows Media Player would remove the ActiveMovie Control icon from the Start Menu upon installation. Microsoft provided instructions for reinstating the icon on its website. References (URLs online) See also (online edition) Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Screenshot of DriveSpace running on Windows 95 DriveSpace (initially known as DoubleSpace ) is a disk compression utility supplied with MS-DOS starting from version 6.0. The purpose of DriveSpace is to increase the amount of data the user could store on disks, by transparently compressing and decompressing data on-the-fly. It is primarily intended for use with hard drives , but use for floppy disks is also supported. There have even been people who claim to have compressed USB flash drives and other removable media. Overview In ...