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A bit disappointing it doesn't mimic any of the glass-motion effects that Win7 had. I really like the colored glass hover effect that they used for running applications in the taskbar. (And let's not forget the way the "shine" on the windows moved while you dragged a window.)

But even the equalizer in Winamp works!

I get a deep sense of nostalgia for Windows 7's glass theme whenever I see a screenshot of it. It just looked so good, and polished.

Plus, the fat window borders with consistent title bars made everything so much more obvious. Today, one window blends into the next and every window has a different colour title bar, which can be incredibly confusing sometimes.

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love that you put cs1.6 there and made it openable

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Legendary game :)

It's been a cool minute since I've used either, but isn't this based on Windows Vista and not 7? Vista went much more all out on the aero effects and had the start menu button that "popped" out of the task bar, unlike 7.

the windows 7 start button still "pops" out of the taskbar if you're using the taskbar in small mode

Very cool execution, surprising how much works on my phone.

Not a complaint, just a weird pedantic nitpick: minesweeper is supposed to move the mine to the first available top left spot if you click it on your first click. I don’t want to push more winmine.exe consistency than that, but it would be a good quality of life improvement.

Unfortunately it doesn't recreate the lovely behavior where selecting multiple desktop icons massively reduces the selection box framerate :D

Did anyone manage to find the secret folder? Opening "Homework" folder tells you to move it a certain way to reveal the secret... I'm curios to see what the secret folder is

Update: I found it.. not even mad.

Ahaha I'm still stumped, any hints?

Yes, I opened it from windows explorer icon

Awesome!

I think the icons should "snap" to a grid in traditional Windows fashion (unless I'm mistaken).

Your design behaves more like MacOS where you can drop icons anywhere.

> I think the icons should "snap" to a grid in traditional Windows fashion (unless I'm mistaken).

It was the default in later Windows like 7 but I remember I could drag them anywhere on Windows 98 and if I wanted them aligned on a grid I had to use an option in the context menu (that was a one time option that would align them, if I dragged another icon it wouldn't auto align to grid until I clicked that option again).

It looks nice! And I like the apps you've chosen to put there, especially, Minecraft and Minesweeper.

From the UX perspective, I'm used to opening the icons by a double click. I think it is what most of users are familiar with.

https://github.com/syxanash/awesome-web-desktops for more of these.

More https://simone.computer/#/webdesktops

Very nice and snappy! Very cool github1s integration.

Fun, good job. https://www.windows93.net is a great one as well.

Somewhat disappointed that opening a new virtual machine inside the virtual machine app fails to work.

In all honesty, great job!

go for the windows, stay for the winamp visualizer.

Its amazing! Must be a lot of work.

Win 7 > Win 10

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