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Ha. Perhaps I'm misremembering, but I think I remember this behavior (not using the user background in safe mode) back in Windows 95.

ProAm 6y ago
“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.” - Robert Jordan
- nzgrover 6y ago
  "And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge." - Tolkien
  - berkes 6y ago
    Unexpected diss to Robert Jordan for being a copycat. I love both (I'm one of the few who wrestled through the entire WoT twice and enjoyed that) but your citation shows very pointedly how Jordan was often just copying LoTR.
    - ProAm 6y ago
      I think they both just copied the idiom that history will repeat itself.
    - ry_co 6y ago
      I'm fairly confident that Tolkein didn't write that. It's the prologue to the Fellowship of the Ring movie, and not in the text, as far as I'm aware. So maybe Jordan is actually the one who got ripped off. Still though, pretty cliché idea, but the formulation is too close to not be influenced one way or another.
eldelshell 6y ago
It also removed the IE thing which showed icons or some stuff like that... Wait, that was in 98.
- throwanem 6y ago
  Active Desktop. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Desktop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Desktop
  - decko 6y ago
    Was that the feature that would occasionally replace your desktop background with an error message?
- organsnyder 6y ago
  Ugh. Disabling that was always my first action on a fresh install.
  - ObsoleteNerd 6y ago
    What, you mean you didn’t feel the need to give up 75% of your system resources so you could have an active website as the wallpaper of your desktop?
    - seba_dos1 6y ago
      ...but hey, it allowed you to use a non-BMP image as a wallpaper! :)
ThePadawan 6y ago
Just yesterday I pointed out how a teal wall had a similar color to the Windows 95 background. To me, it's as iconic as the hilly Windows XP scene.
fortran77 6y ago
I just tried booting my Windows 10 in "Safe Mode" It, too, didn't display custom lock or desktop image in this mode. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/12376/windows-10-start-your-pc-in-safe-mode https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/12376/windows-10-st... Microsoft knows what its doing.
- olyjohn 6y ago
  The bummer is that they made Safe Mode about 10 times harder to get into. Last time I tried, you could not hit F8 at boot time to select safe mode. You have to either be able to boot into the OS and say boot to safe mode, or you have to do it from recovery media, which doesn't come with new PCs. I think there's also the condition that you can get to recovery mode after the PC fails to start 3 times... either way, F8 made it easy enough to tell someone how to boot into Safe Mode over the phone without all the extra steps... but I guess you gotta save that half a second of boot time.
  - kojoru 6y ago
    They had a fun blog post about it back in the day: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/b8/designing-for-pcs-that-boot-faster-than-ever-before https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/b8/designing-...
    - CamperBob2 6y ago
      I guess the obvious idea of holding down the Shift or Alt keys to extend the boot time and/or bring up the boot menu was off the table?
      - fortran77 6y ago
        I think there's a problem of how the keyboard works and when in the boot process it's reset. With NVMe drives, the boot processes is even faster!
  - proactivesvcs 6y ago
SilasX 6y ago
And Super Metroid (1992) let you customize the controls. Firefox (2001), after about twenty years of development (more if you count its predecessor's code), won’t let you, as of the 2016 add-on API change.

ProAm 6y ago

“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.” - Robert Jordan

nzgrover 6y ago
"And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge." - Tolkien
- berkes 6y ago
  Unexpected diss to Robert Jordan for being a copycat. I love both (I'm one of the few who wrestled through the entire WoT twice and enjoyed that) but your citation shows very pointedly how Jordan was often just copying LoTR.
  - ProAm 6y ago
    I think they both just copied the idiom that history will repeat itself.
  - ry_co 6y ago
    I'm fairly confident that Tolkein didn't write that. It's the prologue to the Fellowship of the Ring movie, and not in the text, as far as I'm aware. So maybe Jordan is actually the one who got ripped off. Still though, pretty cliché idea, but the formulation is too close to not be influenced one way or another.

eldelshell 6y ago

It also removed the IE thing which showed icons or some stuff like that... Wait, that was in 98.

throwanem 6y ago
Active Desktop. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Desktop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Desktop
- decko 6y ago
  Was that the feature that would occasionally replace your desktop background with an error message?
organsnyder 6y ago
Ugh. Disabling that was always my first action on a fresh install.
- ObsoleteNerd 6y ago
  What, you mean you didn’t feel the need to give up 75% of your system resources so you could have an active website as the wallpaper of your desktop?
  - seba_dos1 6y ago
    ...but hey, it allowed you to use a non-BMP image as a wallpaper! :)

ThePadawan 6y ago

Just yesterday I pointed out how a teal wall had a similar color to the Windows 95 background. To me, it's as iconic as the hilly Windows XP scene.

fortran77 6y ago

I just tried booting my Windows 10 in "Safe Mode" It, too, didn't display custom lock or desktop image in this mode. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/12376/windows-10-start-your-pc-in-safe-mode https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/12376/windows-10-st... Microsoft knows what its doing.

olyjohn 6y ago
The bummer is that they made Safe Mode about 10 times harder to get into. Last time I tried, you could not hit F8 at boot time to select safe mode. You have to either be able to boot into the OS and say boot to safe mode, or you have to do it from recovery media, which doesn't come with new PCs. I think there's also the condition that you can get to recovery mode after the PC fails to start 3 times... either way, F8 made it easy enough to tell someone how to boot into Safe Mode over the phone without all the extra steps... but I guess you gotta save that half a second of boot time.
- kojoru 6y ago
  They had a fun blog post about it back in the day: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/b8/designing-for-pcs-that-boot-faster-than-ever-before https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/b8/designing-...
  - CamperBob2 6y ago
    I guess the obvious idea of holding down the Shift or Alt keys to extend the boot time and/or bring up the boot menu was off the table?
    - fortran77 6y ago
      I think there's a problem of how the keyboard works and when in the boot process it's reset. With NVMe drives, the boot processes is even faster!
- proactivesvcs 6y ago

SilasX 6y ago

And Super Metroid (1992) let you customize the controls. Firefox (2001), after about twenty years of development (more if you count its predecessor's code), won’t let you, as of the 2016 add-on API change.