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It also removed the IE thing which showed icons or some stuff like that... Wait, that was in 98.

Was that the feature that would occasionally replace your desktop background with an error message?

Ugh. Disabling that was always my first action on a fresh install.

What, you mean you didn’t feel the need to give up 75% of your system resources so you could have an active website as the wallpaper of your desktop?

...but hey, it allowed you to use a non-BMP image as a wallpaper! :)