History of Windows Icons
The table below contains a brief history of the more important Windows icons. The quality of icons has improved dramatically over the last few years, because of the new icon formats pushed by the leading operating systems like Microsoft's Windows XP and the high-quality icon editors and tools that emerged over the last few years...
| Windows Version | 1.01 | 2.03 | 3.0 | WfW 3.11 NT 3.1 |
95 | 98 | 2000 | XP |
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| Year Released | 1985 | 1988 | 1990 | 1993 | 1995 | 1998 | 2000 | 2001 |
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| Calculator |  |
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| Address book |  |
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| Terminal |  |
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| Settings | n/a | n/a |  |
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| Keyboard | n/a | n/a |  |
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| Mouse | n/a | n/a |  |
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| Time and Date | n/a | n/a |  |
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| International | n/a | n/a |  |
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| File Manager |  |
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| Help | n/a | n/a |  |
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