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    [–] AtomicHotSauce@piefed.social 42 points 18 hours ago (5 children)

    XP, though? Hell yeah. I still miss that theme.

    [–] BurgerBaron@quokk.au 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

    The Media Center theme was a nice twist on the default XP theme I'll admit.

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    [–] Stock53809@lemmy.today 4 points 5 hours ago

    I used Royale Blue for ages, it was super easy to find the installer for and was signed by M$ so needed no UXTheme patch.

    There was also Royale Noir and Royale Zune. Noir is a dark theme (Not to be confused with dark mode) and Zune, which was a different shade of black and sported an orange start button. Lastly there was also Royale Embedded which was a darker shade of blue, and had a blue Start button.

    [–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 20 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

    Lol, I grew up with the 98se theme and xp theme, and at this point i just think they're both incredibly ugly. Peak windows desktop prettiness and usability was windows 7 for me.

    [–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago

    I disabled the UI stuff where it would look like Windows 2000 from XP until it stopped letting me. Different strokes, I guess.

    [–] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

    Put this thing in a VM and then let a scammer remote into it, see what he does.

    [–] deacon@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago

    XP or NT, I’d go back

    [–] auzy1@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago

    Windows 95 blew my mind.

    Then windows 98 preview also was amazeballs