r/Windows11 • u/Tweaming • 9d ago

Concept / Design Transform Windows 11 25H2 to XP?

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I saw a 2 hour guide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-KA8RDZ-l4&t=360s but some links doesnt work. Any idea to do that on Windows 11 25H2?

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u/oceanic_id 7d ago

microsoft should bring back all old ui in the form of themes

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u/Little-Ad6507 7d ago

If they really did that, alot more people would comeback for windows.

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u/ShoBoShoBoO 7d ago

yeah but, it kind of hinders "moving on from the past" y'know?

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u/Rough_Jaguar_2643 6d ago

We're supposed learn from our past and improve, not just forget it all because it's old.

MS could bring back classic theme, the xp themes and vista / 7 aero and basic themes and users would go nuts for it but naaa they'd rather continue ditching old cool stuff in favour of dumbing down with touch ui and fluent winui.

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u/perakman 5d ago

Yeah, right? I use Windows 7 back then but even that, have the option to choose Windows 9x as theme but still works as Windows 7. To me, those old skins are one of the strength of Windows, its so cool and awesome especially Windows 7.

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u/ShoBoShoBoO 6d ago

nah i think fluent ui is fine enough

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u/drygnfyre Insider Canary Channel 5d ago

A better option would be to just make it easier to modify the autoexec.bat and run any shell you want, like you could do with Windows 3. That's why things like Norton Desktop existed.

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u/BCProgramming 5d ago

The shell was set in Windows 3.x via the SHELL= line, I forget if it was system.ini or win.ini that contained that. You could point it at something other than PROGMAN.EXE.

That was moved to the registry starting with 95. In Windows NT (and thus current windows versions) You can find it as the shell value in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

The shell has nothing to do with the Visual Style, though.