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Nostalgia-Galore
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July 19, 2022
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New Activation Link
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Dummy Vasu Dummyman
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May 30, 2022
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The links
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wileK209
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April 17, 2022
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Advice on activating
Sure, while the link TheTank20 posted doesn’t work, I had success in activating it with that key by calling the automated toll-free number provided on my Smartphone, to when they provided me the option to activate via my Smartphone and they sent me a fresh link there. So yeah, it’s kind of an extra step, but it’s worth it.
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Filiplukic
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March 18, 2022
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Reply to TheTank20
The link doesn’t exist anymore, it says 404 Error
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WF4123
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October 23, 2021
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Microsoft Plus! Digital Media Edition activation not working for Administrators.
So I installed Microsoft Plus! Digital Media Edition on My Windows XP VM for VMware, trying to activate with right key, and it says, «Cannot Activate Plus! Digital Media Edition». Now I wonder how could you help to fix this problem, so leave the review to solve the problems.
SOLVED: I think I did it, and it’s activated by using registration installation from VETUSWARE.com.
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TheTank20
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September 26, 2021
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To activate
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Something I Guess
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September 10, 2021
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Nice
All the cool kids had this back in the day.
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CX2600
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August 10, 2021
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No, this won’t run on ReactOS.
ReactOS is not XP based. It has absolutely no Windows code in it at all (since that would be illegal). It’s an open source clone of Windows written from scratch.
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AltingFantasy
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July 14, 2021
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answering the Andre guy below my review
Uh… dude? ReactOS is Windows XP-based, but it DOES NOT MEAN it’s full XP, and Microsoft Plus! requires full XP, ok? (like the NT architecture, some stuff I don’t know blah blah blah)
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Andre Espinoza451
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June 7, 2021
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NOT WORKING!!!
ReactOS is a Windows XP-based OS, like Windows Server 2003. And all it says is «Microsoft Plus! for Windows XP requires that Microsoft Windows XP must be installed.» WHY CAN’T IT LET ME INSTALLL!?
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displayman
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April 3, 2021
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Key
Found a working KEY:
Q93MT-334D4-T78M4-37W69-DB3JQ
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medik152
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May 16, 2020
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I need the key
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FanaticYak86
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February 14, 2020
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Combines 2 great products
Microsoft Plus! For Windows XP
Microsoft Plus! Digital Media Edition
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Developer(s) | Microsoft |
|---|---|
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
| Successor | Windows Ultimate Extras |
| Type | Operating system enhancement package |
| License | Closed source |
Microsoft Plus! is a discontinued commercial operating system enhancement product by Microsoft. The last edition is the Plus! SuperPack, which includes an assortment of screensavers, themes, and games, as well as multimedia applications. The Microsoft Plus! product was first announced on January 31, 1994, under the internal codename «Frosting». The first edition was
an enhancement for Windows 95, Windows 95 Plus!
The enhancements that make up Microsoft Plus! were generally developed by Microsoft itself. The Plus! packs also included games and content from third-party companies; for example, in Plus! for Windows XP, the HyperBowl game developed by HyperEntertainment Inc. was included. Plus! features that enhance the base operating system or provide utility are generally included free of charge in the next release of Windows.
Microsoft Plus! was discontinued in favor of Windows Ultimate Extras in Windows Vista.[1]
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Versions[edit]
Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95[edit]
Windows 95 with Microsoft Plus boot screen
This was the first version of Plus! and had an initial cost of US$49.99.[3] It included Space Cadet Pinball, the Internet Jumpstart Kit (which was the introduction of Internet Explorer 1.0), DriveSpace 3 and Compression Agent disk compression utilities, the initial release of theme support along with a set of 12 themes, dial-up networking server, dial-up scripting tool, and the graphical improvements such as anti-aliased screen fonts, full-window drag, the ability to stretch or shrink the wallpaper to fit the screen and highcolor icons.
Task Scheduler as it is present in later Windows versions was included as System Agent. A utility to notify the user of low disk space (DiskAlm.exe) also ran as part of System Agent. Plus! for Windows 95 was initially marketed for adding features for «high-performance computers», the minimum system requirements were an 80386 CPU with 8 megabytes of RAM.[citation needed] Later releases of Windows 95 (OSR2 and onwards) included DriveSpace 3 and Internet Explorer 3.0. Windows 98 included all of the enhancements included in Plus! for Windows 95. Space Cadet Pinball was not installed by default, but included on the Windows 98 CD. Although Windows NT 4.0 is not intended to support desktop themes, each desktop theme from this pack (except the More Windows theme and the Windows 95 256-color theme) along with the Space theme from the Microsoft Plus! for Kids pack (albeit with a different startup sound) and three additional exclusive desktop themes is installable on this operating system via the Windows NT 4.0 Resource Kit.
The screen-saver and wallpaper files include images from the Codex Leicester, which Microsoft co-founder, then CEO Bill Gates bought in 1994.
Microsoft Plus! for Kids[edit]
This version was released in 1997 and aimed at children of ages 3 to 12. It includes three new applications: Talk It!, a text-to-speech program that says what users type using various voices; Play It!, an electronic keyboard with music and sound effects; and Paint It!, a version of Paint oriented for kids. It also contained a «picture picker» along with clipart, fonts, 10 new desktop themes, and Protect It!, parental controls for Internet Explorer. Plus! for Kids was the only Plus! release from the Microsoft Home and Entertainment division rather than the Windows Operating System development group. Four desktop themes from this collection — Baseball, Jungle, Space and Underwater – were included in Windows 98 and Windows Me; the Underwater theme, however, was modified to have its sounds play in different events.
There is also a demo version for Microsoft Plus! for Kids; however, it only contains the readme for the program and the Underwater theme. The pack can also be installed on Windows NT 4.0 if the user is granted administrative privileges, according to the Readme document included with the pack, although Protect It! and the desktop themes cannot be installed, mainly due to design differences between Windows 95 and NT 4.0.
Microsoft Plus! 98[edit]
As the sequel to the original suite of enhancements to Windows, Plus! 98 included eighteen new desktop themes (Some were based on popular comics such as FoxTrot and Garfield.[4]), along with new programs and tools for Windows 98. An «organic art» 3D screensaver rendered unique infinite 3D visual shapes.[4] A Start Menu cleanup utility was added to Windows 98’s Maintenance Wizard.[4] A Cybermedia Non-Critical File Cleaner utility was integrated into Disk Cleanup. ZIP file integration with Windows Explorer was first introduced with this version under the name of «compressed folders». New games, such as Microsoft Golf 1998 Lite, Lose Your Marbles and the now popular Spider Solitaire were also part of Plus! 98.[4] A Deluxe CD Player with CDDB support[4] and a basic «express» version of Picture It![4] were also included. Finally, Plus! 98 came with McAfee VirusScan 3.0, along with a six-month supply of free updates.[4]
Some Plus! 98 features such as compressed folders and the Spider Solitaire game were included in Windows Me and later Windows versions. The Deluxe CD Player was included with Windows 2000. Although Windows Me does not include all of the Plus! 98 features and Plus! 98 Setup is blocked by Windows Me as incompatible, it can be installed on Windows Me by copying the setup files to the local hard disk and renaming Setup.exe before running it.
Microsoft Plus! Game Pack: Cards & Puzzles[edit]
This Plus! pack was released at the time of Windows Millennium Edition; however, it could also be installed on Windows 95-98 and 2000.[5] It included the Microsoft Entertainment Pack: The Puzzle Collection — a collection of 10 arcade games and Microsoft Bicycle Card Collection, another set of 12 card games (Hearts, Spades, Cribbage, Pinochle, Crazy 8’s, Oh Hell!, Go Fish, Old Maid, Euchre, Gin Rummy, Schafkopf and Skat). A trial version of Microsoft Pandora’s Box was also included.
Microsoft Plus! for Windows XP[edit]
Package containing Windows XP version of Microsoft Plus!.
Marketed as «The Ultimate Companion for Windows XP», Microsoft Plus! for Windows XP was launched alongside the Windows XP operating system on October 25, 2001. This version of Plus! was created to show off the enhanced capabilities that Windows XP presented with its updated Windows Media Player and DirectX 3D core technologies. Continuing the feature categories of the previous Plus! products, the product features were desktop themes, screen savers, games, and utilities.
Plus! for Windows XP includes:
- Plus! Themes (Aquarium, Nature, da Vinci and Space)
- Plus! Screen Savers (Aquarium, Nature, da Vinci, Space, Robot Circus, Sand Pendulum, Mercury Pool and Plus! My Pictures Premium screensaver)
- Plus! Voice Command for Windows Media Player
- Plus! Personal DJ
- Plus! MP3 Converter
- Plus! CD Label Maker
- Plus! Speaker Enhancement
- Plus! 3D Visualizations for Windows Media Player (Oddworld: Munch’s Odyssee, Maxx’s Kingdom and Plus! Undersea Wonders)
- Plus! Skins for Windows Media Player (Aquarium, Nature, da Vinci and Space)
- Plus! Hyperbowl
- Plus! Russian Square
- Plus! Labyrinth
Microsoft Plus! Digital Media Edition[edit]
Marketed as «The Ultimate Photo, Music, and Movie Enhancement Pack for Windows XP», Microsoft launched Plus! Digital Media Edition along with Windows XP Media Center Edition. Plus! Digital Media Edition signified the first time Microsoft had released a second Plus! product based on the same base operating system. Microsoft Plus! Digital Media Edition was also the first Microsoft product to be made available for sale to consumers via e-commerce as full product download through online retailers.
Released on January 7, 2003, Plus! Digital Media Edition built upon two newly enhanced Windows XP core components: Windows Media Player and Windows Movie Maker 2. This product version focused more on utility features for photos, music and movies rather than including the more traditional Plus! features like themes, screen savers, and games.
Plus! Digital Media Edition includes:
- Plus! Photo Story 2
- Plus! Party Mode
- Plus! Analog Recorder
- Plus! CD Label Maker
- Plus! Dancer
- Plus! Audio Converter
- Plus! Effects and Transitions for Windows Movie Maker 2
- Plus! Alarm Clock
- Plus! Sleep Timer
- Plus! Skins for Windows Media Player 9 Series
- Plus! Sync & Go for Pocket PC
Microsoft Plus! Digital Media Edition is the only version of Microsoft Plus! to require activation.
Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 includes some of the themes and screensavers from Microsoft Plus! for Windows XP, as it retains the Aquarium, Da Vinci, Nature and Space themes. It also includes some applications from Microsoft Plus! Digital Media Edition, namely, Audio Converter, CD Label Maker, Dancer and Party Mode and the My Pictures Premium screensaver. A Windows Media Player skin called Darkling, developed by The Skins Factory is included, the skin is exclusive to Microsoft Plus! Digital Media Edition.
Microsoft Plus! SuperPack for Windows XP[edit]
On October 19, 2004, Microsoft replaced its two separate Plus! products for Windows XP with a single combined version called the Microsoft Plus! SuperPack for Windows XP. There were no new features or functionality added nor are the two separate products integrated. On Windows XP Media Center Edition the Pack was not needed as it had included the Plus Pack features. The Plus! series has been discontinued, as some of its features have been integrated into Windows Vista and later Windows versions.
See also[edit]
- Windows Ultimate Extras
- Microsoft Photo Story
- Microsoft Picture It!
- Microsoft Windows Media Player
- Microsoft Windows Movie Maker
External links[edit]
- Official Microsoft Plus! Website at the Wayback Machine (archived May 3, 2007)
- Microsoft Plus! for Modern Windows (Windows 98+)
References[edit]
- ^ Thurrott, Paul (2007-01-17). «Paul Thurrott’s SuperSite for Windows: Windows Ultimate Extras Review». SuperSite for Windows. Archived from the original on 2007-04-15. Retrieved 2017-04-16.
- ^ «Microsoft Plus!». Microsoft. Archived from the original on 2003-01-09. Retrieved 2011-07-31.
- ^ «Microsoft Suggests $209.95 Retail Price For Windows 95». The Seattle Times. June 7, 1995. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f g «Consumer Companion for Windows 98 Offers Powerful New Utilities Desktop Themes and Exciting Games» (Press release). Microsoft Corporation. 1998-06-25. Archived from the original on 2009-02-10. Retrieved 2009-02-14.
- ^ «Microsoft Plus! Game Pack: Minimum Requirements». Microsoft. Retrieved 2014-02-19.
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Microsoft Plus! Digital Media Edition+Microsoft Plus! SuperPack for Windows XP
Microsoft® Plus! Digital Media Edition, the ultimate photo, music and movie enhancement pack for Windows®
“Plus! Digital Media Edition represents tremendous value for consumers who want to enhance their digital photo, music and home video experiences,”
said Dave Fester, general manager of the Windows Digital Media Division at Microsoft.
“For example, tens of millions of people have taken digital photos over the recent holiday season, and the new Plus! Photo Story feature enables them to tell the story behind those photos to friends and family around the world.”
Creating New Experiences With Digital Media on the PC
Plus! Digital Media Edition includes a broad range of new features and tools to provide new experiences for anyone who enjoys digital photography, digital music and home video, and taking content on the go.
Digital photo buffs will enjoy Plus! Photo Story, which creates a whole new way to enjoy and share digital photos, enabling users to build unique digital photo albums with narration and music, and even automatically add motion to the photos via pan and zoom effects that make photos come to life in a file size small enough to share via e-mail or over the Web.
Digital media aficionados will love Plus! Digital Media Edition’s great assortment of features and tools, including these:
- Plus! Party Mode turns the PC into the ultimate party jukebox, complete with visual effects, song and artist displays, and an interactive guest book, while restricting access to personal files and information.
- Plus! Dancer turns the desktop into a dance floor with more than 10 lifelike, high-definition 3-D dancers that groove in time to the music that’s playing.
- Plus! Analog Recorder enables users to easily create clean, vibrant digital copies of their aging vinyl records or cassette tapes using automatic hiss and pop reduction and automatic track-splitting.
- Plus! Audio Converter is a general-purpose conversion tool offering easy interchange between formats and bit rates. Files can be converted from MP3 and WAV to Windows Media®
Audio (WMA) or from WMA to MP3 (if a compatible MP3 encoding plug-in for Windows Media Player 9 Series is installed). - With Plus! CD Label Maker, users can create and print CD covers and labels in just four easy steps.
- The Plus! Alarm Clock turns the PC into a full-featured alarm clock that can play music from a user’s library of favorite tunes.
- The Plus! Sleep Timer allows users to fall asleep to the music they choose by gradually decreasing volume over time to provide an enjoyable entry into a good night’s sleep.
- Plus! Digital Media Edition also adds eight new, high-quality skins for Windows Media Player 9 Series , giving users more choices for personalizing their player.
- Home movie fans will enjoy 50 stunning new effects and transitions , created by Pixelan Software LLC, for Windows Movie Maker 2 for Windows XP , the completely redesigned video-editing feature for Windows XP that takes fast and easy home video creation to a whole new level.
- 2001: Plus! for XP
Like its predecessors, Plus! XP is designed for consumers that wish to get the most out of the new OS. But this time around, Plus! XPdispenses with the sort of dry system utilities that populated past Plus! packs and goes right for the entertainment jugular: All of its features are entertainment related, with a heavy emphasis on digital media features, games, and UI customizations.
Microsoft bills Plus! Digital Media Edition (Plus! DME) as the ultimate photo, music, and movie enhancement pack for its best-selling XP operating system. Plus! DME is a far stronger effort than Plus! XP, with fewer filler-type features. And with an incredible price of only $20, Plus! DME is almost a no-brainer for digital media enthusiasts.
2004: Plus! SuperPack
Plus! SuperPack for Windows XP combines the features from Plus! Digital Media Edition and Plus! for Windows XP. Among other tools, Plus! SuperPack for Windows XP includes the amazing Plus! Photo Story 2, over 10 screensavers and themes, 50 additional transitions and effects for Windows Movie Maker 2, and several games.
Conclusions
Given its low-ball pricing, Plus! SuperPack for Windows XP is a no-brainer for anyone who’s interesting in extending the digital media functionality in Windows XP. Most of the Plus! for Windows XP features are dated and uninteresting, but there are a few gems, and Plus! Digital Media Edition is Microsoft’s best Plus! pack yet. If you haven’t picked up either one of these products yet, now’s your chance.
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Thanks for the it 
Direct link please
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Good thing my old laptop is still running XPsp3!
(Meanwhile my 1st desktop is running the mighty Win7Crux,
and I’m building a 2nd desktop to try out Win10. haha)
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good game thanks
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will add to 2 older dells. Thank You
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Thanks for the share, been looking for this.
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Been looking for this for a long time. thanks
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thanks for this legendary item (Y)
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thank you , now hoping that my XP machine is holding it out (lol)
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nice … keep going waiting for more stuff like this
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What a blast from the past! I totally forgot about the Plus! packs. This will be fun to explore. Thanks.
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| Microsoft Plus! | |
|---|---|
| Тип | Пакет дополнений для операционной системы |
| Разработчик | Microsoft Corporation |
| Операционная система | Windows |
| Лицензия | Проприетарная |
| Сайт | microsoft.com/windows/pl… |
Microsoft Plus! — коммерческий продукт, дополняющий возможности Microsoft Windows. Последней редакцией была Plus! SuperPack, которая включала в себя заставки, темы, игры и мультимедийные приложения. Microsoft Plus! впервые был анонсирован 31 января 1994 года под кодовым названием Frosting.
Дополнения из Microsoft Plus! обычно разрабатывала сама Microsoft. Пакеты Plus! также включали игры и контент от третьих лиц, например, в Plus! for Windows XP, игра HyperBowl была разработана компанией Hyper Entertainment.
Поддержка Microsoft Plus! была прекращена в пользу Ultimate Extras для Windows Vista и Windows 7.
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- Microsoft Plus! Игровой Пакет: Карты и Пазлы [ править | править код ]
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Версии [ править | править код ]
Microsoft Plus! для Windows 95 [ править | править код ]
Первая версия продукта. Включала в себя Space Cadet Pinball, Internet Jumpstart Kit (в котором, помимо прочего, присутствовал браузер Internet Explorer 1.0), DoubleSpace, Compression Agent (утилиты для сжатия диска), начальные версии тем оформления (всего 12 тем оформления), сервер коммутированного доступа, редактор макросов подключения и графические улучшения: сглаженные экранные шрифты, плавное передвижение окон, способность растягивать или сжимать изображение рабочего стола для соответствия разрешению экрана и 32-битные иконки. Планировщик задач, который присутствует в более поздних версиях Windows, в Windows 95 назывался System Agent. Более поздние версии (OSR2 и новее) включали DriveSpace 3 и Internet Explorer 3.0. Windows 98 включала все эти программы, кроме игры Пинбол, которая появилась в поставках Windows начиная с Windows NT 4.0.
Также были несколько видеороликов, выпущенных к выходу windows 95, а также песни Buddy Holly группы Weezer и Good times Edie Brickell. [ источник не указан 3304 дня ]
Microsoft Plus! для детей [ править | править код ]
Пакет вышел в 1997 году и был предназначен для детей. Включал в себя три новых приложения: Talk It!, программа типа «text-to-speech», Play It! (электронная клавиатура с музыкой и звуковыми эффектами), и Paint It! (версия Paint, оптимизирована для обучения детей). Версия также содержала picture picker наряду с клипартами, шрифтами, десятью новыми темами оформления, и программой Protect It! (Родительский контроль для Internet Explorer). Plus! для детей была единственной версией Plus! от подразделения Microsoft — Microsoft Home and Entertainment. Все остальные версии были сделаны программистами из Windows Operating System development group.
Microsoft Plus! для Windows 98 [ править | править код ]
Как продолжение к оригинальному набору дополнений Windows Plus! 98 включала оригинальный набор тем, в который входили восемнадцать новых тем оформления (некоторые из них были основаны на таких популярных в то время комиксах, как FoxTrot и Garfield [1] ), наряду с новыми приложениями для Windows 98. 3D-скринсейвер organic art обрабатывал уникальные на то время трехмерные модели [1] . Утилита очистки Меню Пуск была добавлена в Windows 98 как Maintenance Wizard [1] . Утилита Cybermedia Non-Critical File Cleaner была интегрирована в «Очистку диска». Интеграция ZIP-файлов в Проводник Windows была впервые произведена в этой версии под названием Сжатые папки. Новые игры, такие как Microsoft Golf 98 Lite, Lose Your Marbles!, и популярный сейчас Пасьянс Паук, также входили в состав Plus! 98 [1] . Deluxe CD Player с поддержкой CDDB [1] и простая «экспресс» версия Picture It! [1] также были включены. Наконец, Plus! 98 поставлялась с антивирусом McAfee VirusScan 3.0 с возможностью бесплатного обновления в течение шести месяцев [1] .
Такие приложения Plus! 98 как Сжатые папки и Пасьянс Паук были включены в состав Windows Me и более поздних версиях Windows. Deluxe CD Player поставлялась с Windows 2000. Также в Windows 2000 осталось приложение для управления темами рабочего стола Themes.exe с функцией автоматической смены тем по расписанию. Однако сами заготовки тем в Windows 2000 включены не были.
Windows XP не поддерживает установку Plus! 98. Однако для тех, кто испытывает ностальгию по играм и темам из него, есть способ установки Plus! 98 под Windows XP. Для этого необходимо установить режим совместимости для установщика setup.exe под Windows 98 и в процессе выбора компонентов снять галочки с заведомо несовместимых с Windows XP приложений (Maintenance Wizard, Сжатые папки, McAfee VirusScan, Spider Solitaire). После установки вполне корректно работают Deluxe CD Player, Picture It!, игра Lose Your Marbles! Есть проблемы при запуске тем рабочего стола (некорректное отображение шрифтов и Flash-компонентов в некоторых темах), экранной заставки Organic art. Также не работает достаточно удобная оболочка выбора тем рабочего стола, где можно было устанавливать автоматическую смену тем по расписанию и отдельные компоненты тем (значки, шрифты, звуки, указатели мыши).
Microsoft Plus! Игровой Пакет: Карты и Пазлы [ править | править код ]
Этот пакет Plus! был выпущен в то же время, что и Windows Millennium Edition, однако его можно было поставить на другие версии Windows. Он включал: Microsoft Entertainment Pack: The Puzzle Collection — коллекцию из десяти аркадных игр и Microsoft Bicycle Card Collection, набор из двенадцати карточных игр. Триал-версия игры Microsoft Pandora’s Box также присутствовала в пакете.
Microsoft Plus! для Windows XP [ править | править код ]
Выпущенный под названием «The Ultimate Companion for Windows XP», Microsoft Plus! для Windows XP представлен вместе с Windows XP 25 октября 2001 года. Эта версия пакета была создана, чтобы показать новые возможности Windows XP: пакет был представлен с обновленным Windows Media Player и 3D-технологиями DirectX. Продолжая традиции предыдущих пакетов, Plus! для Windows XP содержал заставки, игры, и приложения.
Plus! для Windows XP включает:
- Plus! Темы
- Plus! Заставки
- Plus! Голосовые команды для Windows Media Player
- Plus! Personal DJ (Программа для создания списков воспроизведения)
- Plus! Конвертер MP3
- Plus! CD Label Maker (Для создания обложек CD)
- Plus! Speaker Enhancement
- Plus! 3D Visualizations for Windows Media Player (Заставки визуализации для Windows Media Player)
- Plus! Skins for Windows Media Player (Обложки для Windows Media Player)
- Plus! Hyperbowl
- Plus! Russian Square (Тетрис)
- Plus! Labyrinth
Microsoft Plus! для Windows XP может быть установлен в более поздних версиях Windows, в частности, он вполне стабильно работает в Windows 7. Однако при использовании тем рабочего стола от Microsoft Plus! для Windows XP автоматически включается упрощенный режим графического интерфейса Aero.
Microsoft Plus! для Windows XP несовместим с Windows 10.
Microsoft Plus! is an extra or addon pack for windows XP. It contains a lot of features or programs.
All programs are grouped under names:
1) Digital Media
2) Games
3) Themes
4) ScreenSavers
1) Digital Media includes:
«Plus! voice command for windows media player». As the name indicate, it improves accessibility of windows media player by including voice recognition.
«Plus mp3 audio converter»can be used to convert MP3 and WAV files to WMA. WMA format claims to have double the quality of MP3, that is.,
WMA with 64 kbps has the same quality of MP3 with128 kbps bitrate!
Well, after conversion, the quality seems pretty same to me. The only difference is that some songs with large variation in audio pitch may not sound exactly the same. But the compression quality is great. I have all my MP3 converted to WMA and saves GBs of disk space. Conversion speed is fair.
«Plus CD Label maker» is a small graphic editing application used to create CD Labels, just like Nero CD label maker but with less features.
«Plus speaker enhancement» helps in audio enhancement according to different speakers. If your speaker is listed in the «speaker profiles» list, you can get good audio output. But many speakers are not supported/listed.
«Plus! windows media player skins» provide a good selection of skins for Windows Media Player.
«Plus! 3D Visualizations» include many visualizations for Windows Media Player. But the skins and plugins slow down / crash Media Player often and is a problem that needs consideration. Only install plugins you really need.
«Plus! personal DJ» can be used to create playlists for Windows Media Player. Now, playlist files contain a list of media files in your computer. You can create a playlist with your favorite songs and play at any time. It can be done in any media player, but «Plus! personal DJ» makes it easier.
2) Games include 3 games
«Russian Square Plus!»,
«Labyrinth Plus!», and
«HyperBowl Plus!»
3) Themes include
«Plus! Aquarium»
«Plus! Space»
«Plus! DaVinci»
«Plus! Space»
Which are the same themes you get with Windows Media Center Edition.
Not a good collection of themes!
4) ScreenSavers
ScreenSavers too doesn’t have a good collection. There are only 3 or 4 screensavers that too came with Windows Media Center Edition.
Overall, they could have done a lot better withe Microsoft Plus!
Also, they have discontinued this program. All of the features like the speaker enhancement, games, etc are a part of Windows Vista now.
You may find it in some online or retail stores, ebay, etc.
Microsoft Plus! 1.0 is not supported in vista, but it can be run. But you may not get to use all the features.
Microsoft Plus! Sounds for XP
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v.1.0 (23 October 2010)
The original MS Plus! sound schemes adapted for Windows XP.
. 683 WAV files
. 48 sound schemes (adapted from Plus! 95, Plus! 98 and Plus! XP)
Ancient Pathways, Aquarium, Architecture, Baseball, Cathy, Cityscape, Dangerous Creatures, daVinci, Doonesbury, Falling Leaves, Fashion, FoxTrot, Garfield, Geometry, Horror, Inside Your Computer, Jazz, Jungle, Leonardo da Vinci, More Windows, Mystery, Nature, Nature XP, Peanuts, PhotoDisc, Photography, Rock-n-Roll, Science, Science Fiction, Space, Space XP, Sports, The 60s USA, The Golden Era, Travel, Tropical Interlude, Underwater, Windows 98 high color, World Traveler
To install.
1 Copy the «Plus!» folder and contents as a subfolder of windowsmedia
i.e. windowsmediaPlus!
2. Double-click the plus!sounds.reg file to merge with the Windows Registry
When asked «Are you sure you want to add the information. » choose «Yes»
3. Open the Sounds and Audio Devices control applet in Contol Panel
StartControl PanelSounds and Audio Devices
4. Click on the «Sounds» tab
5. Choose one of the Plus! schemes in the «Sound scheme» drop-down list
Choose to save your existing sound scheme if required
6. Click OK
To uninstall.
1. Open the Sounds and Audio Devices control applet in Contol Panel
StartControl PanelSounds and Audio Devices
2. Select the «Sounds» tab
3. Choose the relevant Plus! sound scheme in the «Sound scheme» drop-down list
4. Select Delete to delete the sound scheme (note, this only deletes the scheme list not the files).
5. To delete the sound files if desired, delete the windowsmediaPlus! folder.