Miranda IM has always been a solid IM client. All the utility apps that look like they are from windows 2000 work great. All the old control panel apps that UWP

Miranda IM has always been a solid IM client. All the utility apps that look like they are from windows 2000 work great. All the old control panel apps that UWP/Metro settings app still rely on for a lot of their settings still work better than the pc settings app. All the light-weight notepad clones are great, my fave is notepad3.