Talk:Microsoft Diagnostics

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[edit] Versions

MSD, Like MsInfo, Assistant, regedit, first shipped with Word, and then spread into the operating system. Here is a table of the known versions of MSD, such as I have collected. (Source is the release files for the products named.)

1.00: Appeared in Word for Windows 2.0 (win30 vintage)
1.10.36: Appeared in Windows 3.0 Multimedia Extensions.
2.00: Windows 3.10, 3.11: Pressing F1 at the help|about dialog gives "No Help Available (so leave me alone)"
2.00a: Windows for Workgroups 3.10
2.01: MS-DOS 6.00, 6.20, 6.21 7.00 beta 1, and OS/2 (2.1 and later) [sometimes have msd.com]
2.10: Windows for Workgroups 3.11
2.11: MS-DOS 6.22
2.13: Windows 95, 95A (help-about says 2.11, but msd /p gives the correct version of 2.13.
2.14: Windows 98, 98SE, ME
3.00: Early chicago beta version, features (non-functional) 'registry' button
3.10: Later chicago version. Like 2.13, but shows OS Version button.

--Wendy.krieger 10:51, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Added 1.10.36 - --Wendy.krieger (talk) 07:31, 12 December 2007 (UTC)