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i seem to recall there being a setting in windows xp to make your windows and start menu and other things have a "classic" look. isn't there something similar

by there 18y ago

i seem to recall there being a setting in windows xp to make your windows and start menu and other things have a "classic" look. isn't there something similar in windows 7 that offers this? it sounds like such a feature would have eliminated a lot of the problems this guy's colleague was complaining about. maybe just ask the user at first boot whether they want the new windows 7 look or an old classic view, setting default preferences accordingly. make the new mode look really appealing and tell the user what new features they'll get, and discourage the old "classic" mode and make it seem old and clunky, but let the user decide.

dcurtis 18y ago
Windows 7 does, amazingly, have the same classic mode. When you switch to it, everything looks exactly like Windows 98.
- dfranke 18y ago
  To hell with 98. They got the UI right with Windows 1.0. It was a tiling window manager, just like the one I'm using now.
  - jredville 18y ago
    http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2008/11/20/happy-anniversary-windows-on-the-evolution-of-the-taskbar.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2008/11/20/happy-anniversar... They were inspired by some of the things in Windows 1.0
- mynameishere 18y ago
  Why is it amazing? It's a one-checkbox option to get rid of 10 years of candyland-style aesthetic mistakes. The underlying OS has nothing to do with transparent windows and pastels.
  - dcurtis 18y ago
    For 99% of users, the OS is the transparent windows and colors and user flow. No one cares about the "underlying OS" as long as the experience of using it is good. The reason I think it's amazing is because they have managed to add all of the new effects/colors/transitions in Vista/xp/7 while maintaining compatibility with a UI that is ten years old.
- ivank 18y ago
  There are some differences between the 98 and 2000 look, but it might just be the default color palette. I would imagine it looks like 2000.

by there 18y ago

dcurtis 18y ago

Windows 7 does, amazingly, have the same classic mode. When you switch to it, everything looks exactly like Windows 98.

dfranke 18y ago
To hell with 98. They got the UI right with Windows 1.0. It was a tiling window manager, just like the one I'm using now.
- jredville 18y ago
  http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2008/11/20/happy-anniversary-windows-on-the-evolution-of-the-taskbar.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2008/11/20/happy-anniversar... They were inspired by some of the things in Windows 1.0
mynameishere 18y ago
Why is it amazing? It's a one-checkbox option to get rid of 10 years of candyland-style aesthetic mistakes. The underlying OS has nothing to do with transparent windows and pastels.
- dcurtis 18y ago
  For 99% of users, the OS is the transparent windows and colors and user flow. No one cares about the "underlying OS" as long as the experience of using it is good. The reason I think it's amazing is because they have managed to add all of the new effects/colors/transitions in Vista/xp/7 while maintaining compatibility with a UI that is ten years old.
ivank 18y ago
There are some differences between the 98 and 2000 look, but it might just be the default color palette. I would imagine it looks like 2000.