The control panel is similar to the one in Windows 2.x.

OS/2 1.3 comes with a built-in help system. This help file uses an expandable tree structure and items in the help text can be clicked on to bring up a new help topic.

Most of the utilities with MS OS/2 1.3 are command line utilities, however this version comes with a graphical FDISK utility.

There is a utility for displaying certain formats of pictures, and a utility for converting some picture format, but conspicuously absent is any kind of paint program.