I don’t know why I even bother opening the settings app

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    10 months ago

    I googled a bit, and perhaps this statement comes from this old Reddit thread here in the first comments.

    There it’s mainly used as a joke to describe how Windows is just very backwards compatible in general. The story might have stuck and warped a bit as like it really had a reference to that Barbie game.

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        10 months ago

        I couldn’t find a reference to Barbie in your link, or am I missing something?

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          No, I’m just saying that compatibility databases do seem to exist, and the existence of “custom” ones implies that there is a built-in one. It wouldn’t be surprising to find out that Barbie and about a million other widespread legacy executables are in there.