There’s one Windows dialog box that has remained untouched for the past 30 years, despite several operating systems and UI updates. The dialog box in question is the one that pops up when you try to ...

Microsoft debuted a new visual style with Windows 11, but 4 years on there are still parts of the operating system that seem to be from a different era. That includes the venerable Run dialog box, ...

If you have a large monitor, and you always get irritated when you have to keep moving your mouse pointer to the center of the screen to acknowledge small dialog boxes that appear, and if you’d rather ...

A movable window that is displayed on screen in response to the user selecting a menu option. It provides the current status and available options for a particular feature in the program. Dialog boxes ...

For the longest time, one of the things that people liked to poke fun at in Windows was a dialog box used to add fonts to the system. The rarely used dialog used Windows 3.1-era icons and fonts, even ...

Q: Here’s my problem. Whenever I open a Word document, I get this message: “The command cannot be performed because a dialog box is open. Click OK, then close open dialog boxes to continue.” I don’t ...