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RetroBar: Classic Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP taskbar for modern Windows

53 points by smusamashah 5y ago

ilrwbwrkhv 5y ago
Love it. Wish windows would be more open to themes in general.
- chews 5y ago
  For those of us who grew up with windowblinds... there’s a lot of the old MS that we miss. Remember when we used to own our computers and the experience we wanted? Simpler times indeed.
  - efficax 5y ago
    Windowblinds is still around, fyi: https://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/download https://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/download I haven't tried it in years though
  - ilrwbwrkhv 5y ago
    WindowBlinds. Gosh what memories. Things were so much more hacker friendly then. Now everybody wants their way or the highway.
melicoy 5y ago
What does it look like with News and Interest icons?
pcdoodle 5y ago
I miss start drag and drop and contextual menus that were actually useful.
flemhans 5y ago
Give me for macOS!
anthk 5y ago
If you can't set the whole GUI as the old w2k theme all efforts are nil, as Windows 10 has a similar setting for the taskbar but not the theme.
EvanAnderson 5y ago
What I want is the Aero ALT-TAB behavior from Windows 7 in Windows 10. My daily driver is a laptop w/ a touchpad, and I end up using the keyboard a lot. I can switch between programs so quickly and easily using ALT-TAB / ALT-arrows. As far as I can see the functionality just doesn't exist in Windows 10 and it's maddening. I have so much muscle memory built up from that interface and switching between programs via the keyboard is so much clunkier on Windows 10.
- rewgs 5y ago
  How does the Alt+Tab behavior differ between 7 and 10?
  - Tsiklon 5y ago
    I think they meant Super+Tab which on 7 cycled through each window like a deck of cards
    - morjom 5y ago
      Isn't the only difference between the 7 and 10 Super+Tab that instead of the card deck, you can see all of them at once?
  - EvanAnderson 5y ago
    I'm complaining about aesthetics, ultimately. I'm not talking about 'Flip 3D'. That was silly eye candy and served no functional purpose. The stock Windows 10 ALT-TAB behavior presents gigantic thumbnails of the open windows. You can hold ALT and press the arrows to move focus between them. With the number of applications I usually have open it's very cumbersome. The thumbnails are gigantic, do not have a consistent aspect ratio, and do not necessarily look consistent (as they change depending on what's going on inside the app). Example: https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/img_5d2fb024e91ee.png https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/img_5d2... Windows 7 presented thumbnails for the open programs with a consistent aspect ratio and at a manageable size. Example: https://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/alt-tab-windows-7.jpg.optimal.jpg https://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/... There was also an option to display the open programs as icons: https://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/windows-7-alt-tab.jpg.optimal.jpg https://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/... Both of these allowed you to use the arrow keys to move and were less visually jarring than the new Windows 10 ALT-TAB. You can configure Windows 10 to use the icon-style "classic" ALT-TAB, but the arrow keys don't work to move between programs: https://winaero.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/windows-10-classic-alt-tab.png https://winaero.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/windows-... I could probably get used to the ugly stock Windows 10-style ALT-TAB. I found I was much slower than with Windows 7, but I'll probably get faster with time. It would be nice if it took up less of the screen. I really prefer the Windows 7 icon-style but there's no way to get that in Windows 10, apparently.

53 points by smusamashah 5y ago

ilrwbwrkhv 5y ago

Love it. Wish windows would be more open to themes in general.

chews 5y ago
For those of us who grew up with windowblinds... there’s a lot of the old MS that we miss. Remember when we used to own our computers and the experience we wanted? Simpler times indeed.
- efficax 5y ago
  Windowblinds is still around, fyi: https://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/download https://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/download I haven't tried it in years though
- ilrwbwrkhv 5y ago
  WindowBlinds. Gosh what memories. Things were so much more hacker friendly then. Now everybody wants their way or the highway.

melicoy 5y ago

What does it look like with News and Interest icons?

pcdoodle 5y ago

I miss start drag and drop and contextual menus that were actually useful.

flemhans 5y ago

Give me for macOS!

anthk 5y ago

If you can't set the whole GUI as the old w2k theme all efforts are nil, as Windows 10 has a similar setting for the taskbar but not the theme.

EvanAnderson 5y ago

What I want is the Aero ALT-TAB behavior from Windows 7 in Windows 10. My daily driver is a laptop w/ a touchpad, and I end up using the keyboard a lot. I can switch between programs so quickly and easily using ALT-TAB / ALT-arrows. As far as I can see the functionality just doesn't exist in Windows 10 and it's maddening. I have so much muscle memory built up from that interface and switching between programs via the keyboard is so much clunkier on Windows 10.

rewgs 5y ago
How does the Alt+Tab behavior differ between 7 and 10?
- Tsiklon 5y ago
  I think they meant Super+Tab which on 7 cycled through each window like a deck of cards
  - morjom 5y ago
    Isn't the only difference between the 7 and 10 Super+Tab that instead of the card deck, you can see all of them at once?
- EvanAnderson 5y ago
  I'm complaining about aesthetics, ultimately. I'm not talking about 'Flip 3D'. That was silly eye candy and served no functional purpose. The stock Windows 10 ALT-TAB behavior presents gigantic thumbnails of the open windows. You can hold ALT and press the arrows to move focus between them. With the number of applications I usually have open it's very cumbersome. The thumbnails are gigantic, do not have a consistent aspect ratio, and do not necessarily look consistent (as they change depending on what's going on inside the app). Example: https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/img_5d2fb024e91ee.png https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/img_5d2... Windows 7 presented thumbnails for the open programs with a consistent aspect ratio and at a manageable size. Example: https://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/alt-tab-windows-7.jpg.optimal.jpg https://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/... There was also an option to display the open programs as icons: https://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/windows-7-alt-tab.jpg.optimal.jpg https://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/... Both of these allowed you to use the arrow keys to move and were less visually jarring than the new Windows 10 ALT-TAB. You can configure Windows 10 to use the icon-style "classic" ALT-TAB, but the arrow keys don't work to move between programs: https://winaero.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/windows-10-classic-alt-tab.png https://winaero.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/windows-... I could probably get used to the ugly stock Windows 10-style ALT-TAB. I found I was much slower than with Windows 7, but I'll probably get faster with time. It would be nice if it took up less of the screen. I really prefer the Windows 7 icon-style but there's no way to get that in Windows 10, apparently.