Everything about Windows USER

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Windows USERA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: PySSA for Windows: End-User Protein Structure Prediction and Visual Analysis with ColabFold and PyMOLInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: X Window System User’s GuideThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: ORTEP-3 for Windows - a version ofORTEP-III with a Graphical User Interface (GUI)Cited 14,253 times
5. Go sideways: Microsoft Windows library filesA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Windows APIA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• ORTEP-3 for Windows - a version ofORTEP-III with a Graphical User Interface (GUI)

  L. J. Farrugia · 1997 · Journal of Applied Crystallography · 14,253 citations

• End user impacts of automated electrochromic windows in a pilot retrofit application

  E.S. Lee, E.S. Claybaugh, M. LaFrance · 2012 · Energy and Buildings · 76 citations

• Cognitive layouts of windows and multiple screens for user interfaces

  Kent L. Norman, Linda J. Weldon, Ben Shneiderman · 1986 · International Journal of Man-Machine Studies · 50 citations

• RUI: Recording user input from interfaces under Windows and Mac OS X

  Urmila Kukreja, William E. Stevenson, Frank E. Ritter · 2006 · Behavior Research Methods · 47 citations

• AppMonitor: A tool for recording user actions in unmodified Windows applications

  Jason Alexander, Andy Cockburn, Richard Lobb · 2008 · Behavior Research Methods · 24 citations

• SpectroChat: A windows executable graphical user interface for chemometrics analysis of spectroscopic data

  Md. Toukir Ahmed, Md Wadud Ahmed, Mohammed Kamruzzaman · 2024 · Software Impacts · 18 citations

• X-windows-based user interface for data acquisition and display

  T. W. Fredian, J. A. Stillerman · 1990 · Review of Scientific Instruments · 15 citations

• Pulser: user-friendly, graphical user-interface based software for controlling stimuli during data acquisition with Spike2 for Windows

  Malcolm Lidierth · 2005 · Journal of Neuroscience Methods · 10 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• PySSA for Windows: End-User Protein Structure Prediction and Visual Analysis with ColabFold and PyMOL

  Hannah Kullik, Martin Urban, Jonas Schaub · 2025 · Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling · 8 citations

• An Enhanced Path Planner for Electric Vehicles Considering User-Defined Time Windows and Preferences

  Maximiliano Cubillos, Mauro Dell’Amico, Ola Jabali · 2023 · Energies · 6 citations

• Continuous Prediction of Web User Visual Attention on Short Span Windows Based on Gaze Data Analytics

  Francisco Diaz-Guerra, Angel Jimenez-Molina · 2023 · Sensors · 5 citations

• Comparative study between suprasternal and apical windows: a user-friendly cardiac output measurement for the anesthesiologist

  Rafaela Souto e Souza, Wendhell Barros de Melo, Claudia Maria Vilas Freire · 2023 · Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology (English Edition) · 4 citations

• DiagAnalyzer: User behavior analysis and visualization using Windows Diagnostics logs

  Sungha Park, Sangjin Lee · 2022 · Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation · 1 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• X Window System User’s GuideValerie Quercia, Tim O'Reilly · 1988
• XView Programming ManualDan Heller · 1989
• The whole Internet for Windows 95Ed Krol · 1992
• Mastering Windows Server 2012 R2Mark Minasi · 2013
• Windows vs. OS/2, the GUI-OOUI WarTheo Mandel · 1994
• WPF control development unleashedKevin Hoffman, Pavan Podila · 2009
• The power of Windows and DOS togetherMartin S. Matthews, Bruce Dobson · 1992
• Microsoft Windows 7Chris Fehily · 2010

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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