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Thanks for refreshing my memory. Those were pretty cool programs back then. I definetly remember Windowsblinds too (and geez, it seems they're still around ...
by qplex 7y ago
Thanks for refreshing my memory. Those were pretty cool programs back then.
I definetly remember Windowsblinds too (and geez, it seems they're still around ...).
I was into LiteStep, which basically was a shell replacement for explorer.exe.
I'm also reminded how trivially easy it was to configure Win9x to use a different shell: you'd just edit system.ini under [boot] to say shell=litestep.exe and you were done.
Here are some screenshots:
[0] https://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/wb-aug00g.jpg https://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/wb-aug00g.jpg
[1] http://litestep.net/snapshot1.png http://litestep.net/snapshot1.png
- Izkata 7y ago> I'm also reminded how trivially easy it was to configure Win9x to use a different shell: you'd just edit system.ini under [boot] to say shell=litestep.exe and you were done. Fun fact, Win98 still had progman.exe installed (from win 3.1 and earlier). I had to switch to it in system.ini one day when something in explorer got corrupted and the normal UI wouldn't load.
- Rhinobird 7y agoHoly shit, Litestep! That takes me back.
- Joeri 7y agoYou could do that trick even in windows 3.11. I remember using central point desktop for a while: 3d look, virtual desktops, advanced file manager and a bunch of other goodies in the 3.x era. http://toastytech.com/guis/cpdesk.html http://toastytech.com/guis/cpdesk.html It was bloated and unstable though, so I was glad to upgrade to windows 95.
- core-questions 7y agoLitestep was fun, especially for those of us that couldn't get away with installing Linux on the family computer. I also used eFX, which was a free Windowblinds competitor that made it super easy to make skins, and released a ton of garish and ugly ones back in the day.