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Given your "what Windows looks like now" comment, I thought I would pass along what I found to convert Windows 10 Pro to a Windows 2000 look & feel. Mostly I f

Given your "what Windows looks like now" comment, I thought I would pass along what I found to convert Windows 10 Pro to a Windows 2000 look & feel. Mostly I followed this guide [0] to install a few customizations, the most important part of which I paid the $5 for [1] to bring back the ol' reliable "hit the windows key and type the first couple letters of a destination, hit enter" without waiting for a web search to find Bing results for "downloads" To complete the throwback for myself, I also found an install for Sony SonicStage 4.3 circa 2008 and am very pleased to have all the old library features (Artist Link graph navigation, easy playlists and tagging) [2] I'm going to try Directory Opus, I have to rename a bunch of mp3 files since SonicStage predates certain unicode characters... [0] https://github.com/malvinas2/ClassicThemeForWindows10 https://github.com/malvinas2/ClassicThemeForWindows10 [1] https://www.startisback.com/ https://www.startisback.com/ [2] https://archive.org/details/SonicStage4.3USWindows10Unsigned https://archive.org/details/SonicStage4.3USWindows10Unsigned

zitterbewegung 5y ago
I dont use Windows anymore other than for work and i have been a mac user for more than I can remember . But looking at reviews of Windows 11 and using Windows 10 I wish I still could use Windows 7. I don’t even need Windows to game with using GeForce now.
p_l 5y ago
You can disable web search in start without paying, by modifying the settings through Group Policy (it's in Administrative Templates, windows settings or windows components, find Explorer).
- jazzyjackson 5y ago
  I could be mistaken but I still had issues with the search trying too hard to be predictive, instead of a deterministic “these 4 keystrokes will always open the downloads folder” windows 10 search will give some results, and half a second later change the results, such that hitting return will bring me different places depending how long i wait so anyway I appreciate what startisback has done, I think the hierarchical menu of old is a better design than the fuzzy matching that comes standard today

zitterbewegung 5y ago

I dont use Windows anymore other than for work and i have been a mac user for more than I can remember . But looking at reviews of Windows 11 and using Windows 10 I wish I still could use Windows 7. I don’t even need Windows to game with using GeForce now.

p_l 5y ago

You can disable web search in start without paying, by modifying the settings through Group Policy (it's in Administrative Templates, windows settings or windows components, find Explorer).

jazzyjackson 5y ago
I could be mistaken but I still had issues with the search trying too hard to be predictive, instead of a deterministic “these 4 keystrokes will always open the downloads folder” windows 10 search will give some results, and half a second later change the results, such that hitting return will bring me different places depending how long i wait so anyway I appreciate what startisback has done, I think the hierarchical menu of old is a better design than the fuzzy matching that comes standard today