8 Old Windows Apps That Are Still Around in Windows 11
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Summary
While many of Microsoft’s long-standing apps and services have been deprecated, or their features rolled into other apps and services of the company’s making, some still remain in its latest OS, Windows 11, even if they are difficult to find.
This report details eight of them, including Windows 7’s Backup and Restore, which is now better for system image backups than Windows 10’s File History, and its own Backup and Restore feature; the classic, all-blue Windows Media Player, which, while lacking some modern formats, is more than serviceable for listening to music, and can be reactivated in Windows 11; and Character Map, which shows users all available glyphs for a font, and was first introduced in Windows 3.1.
The rest of the features are Disk Cleanup, which, while still present in Windows 11, is wholly superseded by Storage Sense; Snipping Tool, which, while also deprecated, has more functionality than the simple screen capture tool that replaced it in Windows 10; Disk Defragmenter, which has been updated to optimise SSDs as well as HDDs;
