soul

>>106020790 (OP)
i was once obsessed with those

You haven't seen soul

sovl

No. No!
Stop having fun! You are destroying our unified design language!

Still do this

I will take anything not flat. Why the hell couldnt kikerowsoft bring back classic theme for win10??

Windows XP is overrated, millenials just like it because it's one of the few things zoomers can't claim.
Fisher price ass UI

>>106022552
Zoomers like early 2000s stuff and XP was used for so long older zoomers could claim they used it.

>>106022552
Back when XP just came out I remember being very bummed about the aesthetics of it all and felt a sort of impending doom feeling that soon the classic Win95/98 look will vanish and every computer will have this toy-like UI.

>>106022704
I was still using it in 2014

>>106022912
At least you could still set the redmond style up to W7.
If M$ brought back official support for changing the style I'd install it in a heartbeat. You literally only have to maintain 3 styles to win everyone over.
Simple (Redmond)
Elegant (Aero)
Modern (Metro)

>>106023044
I'm still using it in VMs now, including to post this. I just switched my cursor theme to the dinosaur one because of this thread. I forgot it existed.

>buy some game back then
>browse disc contents, as you do
>game includes a nice win9x theme for you to use, complete with high quality sounds, icons and cursors

take me back

>>106021770
>the unified design language

>>106021718

>>106022552
Still use it as daily driver (Posready 2009) and everything, old and new, continues to work just as expected. It isn't a vanilla installation without updates, patches and tweks (obviously), but, you don't get this insane level of utility out of something that's just overrated.

I do agree on the toy gui, it's ugly as all hell and I switched back to 2000 classic as soon as I saw that thing.

>>106021770
I don't want your bauhaus bullshit. Make some art nouveau designs and I might take a look. Make some palladio and I'm sold.

>>106025985
>my briefcase
I never uderstood that. Granted I was a kid who didn't even understood real briefcases, but that icon was so fucking kino.

>>106022552
>>106022912
>>106027788
we could've had this but MS had to go and blow it all up

>>106027853
What bugged me about the UI wasn't even the fisherpricery. It was that I couldn't change the colors like on 95/98. Thinking back, sure it'd require regenerating a ton of images at the desired color (a lot for that time, trivial now), but I saw that it would lead to locked down customizations. Sure, they sold lack adn gold, IIRC, but it's no longer "custom"ization when you're just selecting from the few options they're giving you.

>>106027888
checked and yeah, the ability to change colors was a severe regression I never liked
>1994: "you want to set fonts to 72 pt in Wingdings in yellow, backgrounds in eye-searing pink, and buttons in blood red? sure thing, kiddo! knock yourself out!"
>2002: "we have all the colors you care to use: blue, silver, and green" (few years pass) "ok ok FINE you can have a different blue and a black theme, too. But remember, modifying skins is not allowed because you might hurt yourself."

>>106028022
Double checked.

>picrel
Exactly! I once heard a business guy explaining how a manager in Coca Cola asked him to redo the whole thing because they wanted their indicators to be:
>Red = Coca Cola = good
>Green = puke = bad

It doesn't have to make sense, but if I can't even change the fucking color. And zoomers are loosing the ability to even understand colors. I was giving someone a ride and they were explaining, and we were about to get there, so I asked "what color is the house?" and all I got was the blank stare.

>>106021685
Man I'm mad they removed this from office 2013

>>106028022
>modifying skins is not allowed because you might hurt yourself".

You could make 9x crash by just looking at it. Some things had to go for the sake of stability, and children playing with colors must have been like bottom of the list for developers.

>>106028145
No idea about the clipart browser itself, but I recall most of the clipart from 95/97 day was axed from the Office distribution and moved somewhere else starting with Office 2000. I run 2003 and it ain't there.

>>106028269
I remember dad bought a CD with 500 (or some other "large" number) of images/cliparts/stock photos. I remember spending some afternoons just browsing the contents of that CD. In hindsight, it was probably worth him for the quiet he got from his kids.

>>106027548
>>106021718
I really missed those themes when I moved to XP. I guess that was the start of the soullessness.

>>106021718
>>106027548
damn, pape?

>>106027692
>daily driver
just why?

>>106028905
Why not?

>>106028803
It's in there:

https://archive.org/details/microsoft-windows-wallpapers-pictures/4-2.+Downloadable+(Windows+Vista+era)/Misc/Silverlight_Dusk_Standard_dreamscene.wmv
>Jungle wallpaper.jpg

But for me it was picrel.

>>106028909
im guessing you have another machine then? for modrn use cases, etc.

>>106029024
Finally learned how to navigate that. It's Jungle in this folder:

https://archive.org/download/microsoft-windows-wallpapers-pictures/3-1.%20Microsoft%20Plus%21%2095/

>>106029040
Everything I need/like to do, I do it on this machine.

>>106029042
Oh, I remember carefully organizing my icons into picrel

>>106029062
well then i kneel

>>106021685
>ClipArt
For me it's WordArt

>>106028071
>I asked "what color is the house?" and all I got was the blank stare.
What if they were legit colorblind? I refuse to believe there are color-capable people unable to answer about the color of a house.

>>106029074
In case you're wondering, it's a 3.8ghz P4 + 4gb RAM (XP runs on 128mb) + GeForce FX5900 Ultra (last card with paletted textures support) + CMI8738 audio (native OPL support) + 21 inch flatscreen ViewSonic CRT + Posready 2009 with infinite half-open connections and re-enabled raw socket support.

>>106029128
Out of the blue (pun unintended), sure I expected them to think back and remember instead of having it on the tip of their tongues. They were busy thinking about the path, not the destination. But once they pictured the house inside their heads? Huh, maybe they were NPCs after all.

>>106029151
>textures instead of flat colors
THIS.
How hard is it to get this on literally anything these days? It was expensive then and they did it, but now? It should be cheap. I believe some old WMs might have it, out of retro emulation like WindowMaker and the like, but why is it gone??

>>106029128
Zoomers can't read analog clocks, so there's that.

>>106028269
Clipart browser still around in ribbon menu (and menubar for 2003) until they removed it in 2013

>>106029151
>Nieuw Bericht
based nederneger

>>106027888
>>106028022
If you use the classic theme on XP it gives you basically the same level of customization
>>106027853
They should have included this as an option in the final OS, IMO.

>>106029144
>with infinite half-open connections and re-enabled raw socket support
What is this?

>>106032376
Are you asking what these things are or something specific to the way they were handled before and after the unofficial patches?

>>106027813
It's for syncing files to a disk.

>>106032376
Ok, gotta run. Here's a couple links just in case:

Half-open connections: http://lvllord.de/?lang=en&url=4226patch/faq

Raw sockets: https://interact-sw.co.uk/iangblog/2004/08/12/norawsockets

>>106027515
Perfectly reflects the state of modern society.