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Windows For Workgroups 3.11

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Windows 3.11

The successor of Windows 3.10 was Windows 3.11 for Workgroups (WfW) with network abilities for use as a client in an network. The operating systems supports now beside Netbeui for the first time TCP/IP too. WFW could combine and show up to 25 computers in a working group. DOS drivers remains resistant after the Windows start. The system can be specified over the following configuration files: WIN.INI, SYSTEM.INI and PROGMAN.INI, the Registry has no great importance and only a minor meaning.
With the extension Win32s published later, also few 32-bit applications designed for Windows 95 could be executed now, last version of Win32s was 1.30c of February 1996. With 'Video for Windows' (VfW) the multimedia ability got updated. The minimum hardware requirements for use of Windows 3.x are 2 mbyte RAM and 15 mbyte free harddisk storage.

Windows 3.0 / 3.1 for Workgroups 3.11. Windows 3.x was the first to gain significant development and commercial traction. It combined the 8086, 286, and 386 modes of Windows 2 in to one package.
Windows for Workgroups 3.11. Windows for Workgroups 3.11 (originally codenamed Snowball) was released on August 11, 1993, and shipped in November 1993, by Microsoft. It supported 32-bit file access, full 32-bit network redirectors, and VCACHE.386 file cache, shared between them. WFW 3.11 dropped standard mode support and requires a 386 machine.
Intended Audience This post will be of interest if you are considering revisiting MS-DOS 6.22, the last standalone version of Microsoft DOS, and Windows for Workgroups 3.11 (WfW), the first commercial version of Windows to gain any real traction. For this post, I’m working with VirtualBox 5.2.12 under Windows 10 Home (build 1803). A working Continue reading VirtualBox and Windows for.

And there were no files visible on either even though they were all turned on. First you have to log on the lap top (which is running WFWG 3.11) with a name and password of the PC you want to transfer files to. That immediately allows you to see ALL shared files/directories, etc on that PC, but again not vice-versa.

Area of application
- private users
- Office use
- network client
Structure information
- cooperative multitasking
- 32-bit addressing in protected mode (with 386 CPU or better)
- 16-bit operating system
- File size up to 2 gbyte

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- File system is FAT16
Features
3.11

- high compatibility to DOS
- low resource required
- difficult network configuration

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- limited security
Microsoft announced for the 01.11.2008 to take Windows 3.11 of the market definitely. The operating system manufacturer offered licences for equipment manufacturers till now. The support was already terminated at the end of 2001.

31st December 2001: Windows 3.11 Support has ended

Phone support that may charged on an hourly base and extended, limited hotfix support has ended.

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Windows 3.11 - Setup of WfW 3.11	one of two Kinds of installation are to choose	The desktop of Windows 3.11 looks that way	The program manager represents graphical Shell
The system control	The file manager for the file and directory access	Windows 3.11 needs explicitly a DOS installation, in this case MS DOS 6.22	Network card driver
installed Microsoft Windows Network, Ping command	Network - TCP/IP-32 3.11b, Internet Explorer 5.0	Internet Explorer 5.0 and file download

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