Ever wonder why Windows displays the Welcome Screen? It is a way to hide what’s going on in the background. The Desktop Window Manager or DWM loads the user interface or renders the GUI of Windows.

Computer screens, like any component of a computer system, work or fail to work because of a series of possible factors: the input from the computer, the settings on the screen, and the performance of ...

Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer Select, back when CDs were new-fangled, and IBM's PC XT was wowing the crowds at Comdex. He spent more ...