I was an author for a couple of alternative desktop shells for Windows 9x. I think Windows 95 was the first time I encountered support changing the desktop she

I was an author for a couple of alternative desktop shells for Windows 9x. I think Windows 95 was the first time I encountered support changing the desktop shell (then via the ‘shell’ property in one of Windows’ ini files). I remember some of the main uses cases were: 1. Restoring the Windows 3.x progman (Program Manager) shell 2. Bespoke UIs for educational systems in schools and colleges 3. Bespoke UIs for locked down graphical terminals, like kiosks. The shells I wrote were purely aimed at families though. Designed to make the single user OS a little more like a multi user platform. Windows 95 was pretty terrible when it came to different family members using the same computer. It was fun times but I honestly don’t miss Windows 9x one but.