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Non-free media information and use rationale true for Windows NT 4.0
Description	A screenshot of Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP6a, showing the Start menu, Windows Explorer, Welcome to Windows dialog box and About... dialog box
Source	Microsoft
Article	Windows NT 4.0
Portion used	A screenshot of the typical Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP6 computer
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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	03:49, 25 December 2022		365 × 274 (55 KB)	Paowee (talk \| contribs)	Uploading resized per non-free reduce request. To preserve most details, I used Photoshop's Preserve Details filtering.
	03:29, 25 December 2022	No thumbnail	640 × 480 (121 KB)	Paowee (talk \| contribs)	Same screenshot as the previous one, but office is installed.
	02:56, 25 December 2022	No thumbnail	640 × 480 (117 KB)	Paowee (talk \| contribs)	Updated screenshot to the point NT 4 is fully updated (including IE and all other apps) before it's EOL.
	14:53, 21 May 2017	No thumbnail	640 × 480 (10 KB)	Modernponderer (talk \| contribs)	Reverted to version as of 04:18, 5 November 2015 (UTC) the resize has rendered the image virtually unreadable
	09:27, 12 May 2017	No thumbnail	365 × 273 (6 KB)	DatBot (talk \| contribs)	Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable)
	04:18, 5 November 2015	No thumbnail	640 × 480 (10 KB)	FleetCommand (talk \| contribs)	Screenshot of Windows NT 4.0 SP6 Workstation with Internet Explorer ("with Internet Explorer" is part of the name) at full 24-bit color resolution and 640×480, immediately after installation.
	02:35, 5 November 2015	No thumbnail	640 × 480 (18 KB)	Codename Lisa (talk \| contribs)	Both FleetCommand's and Ajfweb's versions have IE5 installed; Ajfweb's has WMP installed as well. Only FleetCommand's version has an About dialog box. Let's not call the kettle black.
	18:49, 1 November 2015	No thumbnail	640 × 480 (9 KB)	Ajfweb (talk \| contribs)	It may be IE5, then. Even so, that image does not use the default icons and does not look like NT4 would have in 1996. Reverted to version as of 18:02, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
	05:56, 1 November 2015	No thumbnail	640 × 480 (18 KB)	FleetCommand (talk \| contribs)	Reverted to version as of 08:22, 31 October 2015 (UTC) No, it does not! I don't even know where to get IE6! It's 2015 after all!
	18:02, 31 October 2015	No thumbnail	640 × 480 (9 KB)	Ajfweb (talk \| contribs)	This version is using IE6 and Plus! icons, which isn't what Windows NT 4 would look like on a fresh install. Reverted to version as of 03:47, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

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