Change Win7 look

[Henry]

Are there some steps to make Win7 "look" like Win98. I could do it with
WinXP so I hope there is a way to do it in Win7. My opinion is that Win7 is
not user friendly.

Thanks

Henry

 

[Char Jackson]

Are there some steps to make Win7 "look" like Win98. I could do it with
WinXP so I hope there is a way to do it in Win7. My opinion is that Win7 is
not user friendly.

You might be best served by simply continuing to run '98.

 

[Peter Foldes]

Are there some steps to make Win7 "look" like Win98. I could do it with WinXP so
I hope there is a way to do it in Win7. My opinion is that Win7 is not user
friendly.

Explorer and supports a variety of smaller features."
Homepage:
http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/index.html
Features, screenshots:
http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/features.html

Recommended, if you don't like the Windows 7 interface.


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[milt]

Explorer and supports a variety of smaller features."
Homepage:
http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/index.html
Features, screenshots:
http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/features.html

Recommended, if you don't like the Windows 7 interface.

Wait, what?

You're trying to make Win 7 look like 98? Oh yeah, 98 was REAL
user-friendly. Seems to me more of a case of "I'm scared of change so I
want my computer to have the same interface it had 13 years ago!"

Win7 is VERY user-friendly. You just have to oh, learn the changes from
98 to 7... of which there are many! Not just changes but MASSIVE
improvements!

 

[Ken Blake]

Wait, what?

You're trying to make Win 7 look like 98? Oh yeah, 98 was REAL
user-friendly. Seems to me more of a case of "I'm scared of change so I
want my computer to have the same interface it had 13 years ago!"

Win7 is VERY user-friendly. You just have to oh, learn the changes from
98 to 7... of which there are many! Not just changes but MASSIVE
improvements!

Not to mention that changing the way it *looks* doesn't really change
its user friendliness one way or another.

 

[Peter Foldes]

Win7 is VERY user-friendly. You just have to oh, learn the changes from 98 to 7...
of which there are many! Not just changes but MASSIVE improvements!

Milt

Why are you addressing this to me. I just gave the OP another avenue if he so
decides.Maybe you should be addressing the OP Milt

On a side note. I do not use Win7 or Vista or XP. I am happy on the server side

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[XS11E]

Are there some steps to make Win7 "look" like Win98.

Take a look at Classic Shell, it may be what you're looking for.

http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/

I couldn't stomach Win7 w/o it...

 

[Thip]

Take a look at Classic Shell, it may be what you're looking for.

http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/

I couldn't stomach Win7 w/o it...


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+1. I *detest* that stupid Win7 Start menu!

 

[Henry]

Take a look at Classic Shell, it may be what you're looking for.

http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/

I couldn't stomach Win7 w/o it...

Thank you both XS11E and Peter. That looks just like what I want.

Henry

 

[Alexander Arnakis]

Wait, what?

You're trying to make Win 7 look like 98? Oh yeah, 98 was REAL
user-friendly. Seems to me more of a case of "I'm scared of change so I
want my computer to have the same interface it had 13 years ago!"

Win7 is VERY user-friendly. You just have to oh, learn the changes from
98 to 7... of which there are many! Not just changes but MASSIVE
improvements!

User-friendliness is in the eye of the beholder. With any new system,
there's a "learning curve" and the unlearning of old habits that
presents a hurdle to old fogeys like me. Don't get me wrong -- I like
Windows 7 for its stability, reliability, support of new hardware,
etc. But the first thing I did was install Classic Shell, turn off
aero effects, change the desktop wallpaper to the Win 95/98 "Clouds"
pattern, change some of the desktop icons to their Win 98 equivalents,
etc., so that it has the familiar look and feel of a system I used for
10 years. This hybrid system is perfect, except that it lacks support
for my ALPS dry-ink dye sublimation printer and Nikon SCSI slide
scanner. For those tasks, I still have to keep my old Win 98SE
machine.

 

[John Morrison]

+1. I *detest* that stupid Win7 Start menu!

I switched from Win XP to Win 7 and edited the Start Menu to how I
wanted it to look. I don't have any shortcuts on my desktop, (most) of
the programs I run have shortcuts in my Start Menu.

 

[Thip]

I switched from Win XP to Win 7 and edited the Start Menu to how I
wanted it to look. I don't have any shortcuts on my desktop, (most) of
the programs I run have shortcuts in my Start Menu.

I use a launcher called "PopSel" and the Quick Launch almost exclusively.
There's nothing on my Desktop. When I do use the Start menu, I want it to
be quick and simple, and that *&%*! Win7 is anything but.

 

[choro]

Do you also drive a Model-T Ford? If you were to contract gonorrhea,
would you use the old "cure" of having your penis being bored by a drill
or would you use the new, real cure of antibiotics?

Would you like the gear stick of your new car to be up yer arse instead
of in the usual place you expect a gear lever to be?

 

[Gordon]

Are there some steps to make Win7 "look" like Win98. I could do it with
WinXP so I hope there is a way to do it in Win7. My opinion is that Win7
is not user friendly.

Thanks

Henry

Why would you want to?
Do you change the way your 2010 Ford looks for the way one looked in 1998?

 

[Peter Foldes]

No problem! Find yourself a second hand Trabant!

They spew smoke and it smells awful. Great car built for the 3rd world former
communist countries and it shows.

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[choro]

They spew smoke and it smells awful. Great car built for the 3rd world
former communist countries and it shows.

But you did ask to be pointed to a car with its gear lever up yer arse. ;-)

So why are you complaining now?!

 

[Dave \Crash\ Dummy]

Why would you want to?
Do you change the way your 2010 Ford looks for the way one looked in 1998?

No, but I'd rather have a 2010 Mustang that looked like a 1966 Mustang.

 

[choro]

I'd rather have Mustang Sally.

I must say you are a strange one.

First you want a car with the gear lever up yer arse and now you want a
mare to screw!

Whatever next! ;-)

I say, your sexual orientations must be multi-faceted!

 

[Alexander Arnakis]

I disagree. Win 7 is much more user friendly than XP or 98.

If you have 10 years of experience with a given system (Win98 in this
case), "user friendly" is what is familiar to you. For example, I want
my Start Menu items to stay put, not be rearranged automatically
according to some algorythm of "recent use." Nor do I want the
distractions of "aero effects," transparent icon labels,
high-resolution wallpapers, etc. There are lots of advantages to using
the Classic Start Menu and old-style Windows Explorer.

 

[Flint]

I switched from Win XP to Win 7 and edited the Start Menu to how I
wanted it to look. I don't have any shortcuts on my desktop, (most) of
the programs I run have shortcuts in my Start Menu.

Or, take it one step farther, and install ObjectDock, and place icons
for your most commonly used programs on it instead.

This is what I do, and then I only use the Windows Start menu for my
system maintenance tools (Things like Mike Lin's Startup.exe, EaseUS
ToDo Backup, Auslogics Defragger, etc.) I hardly ever need to even go
into the "All Programs" menu folders.

This way, I can also turn off the desktop icon clutter, keep all my
apps full screen, and call up my programs by having the icons come to
*me* by popping front simply by moving my mouse pointer to the top
edge of my screen, and when I'm done selecting my program, the
Objectdock icon dock simply goes away. With all that desktop icon
clutter nonsense gone, I can now finally see that beutifal desktop
wallpaper in it's >entirety<.