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Very cool! I want a Windows 2000 version of it. I think that was the nicest looking Windows. It is very close to this, but with a slightly different main GUI color. Not a complete gray, but ever so slightly beige. Makes it more pleasant to the eye, IMO.

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Ideally it should support easy recoloring to match any of the exciting Windows classic themes! Hotdog Stand support when?

Also, agree that Win2000's color scheme was the best looking iteration of the classic Windows look.

I'm still using the Windows 2000 background colour, #3a6ea5, on my dwm setup. It's perhaps a little bit sad that I can recite that from memory.

> It's perhaps a little bit sad that I can recite that from memory.

No, it just tells a story of what you've been in to years ago.

The color codes burned into my memory are: #aeaedd, #11ff11 and #dddd11. Who wants to guess where these came from?

Has the first one something to do with Sun Microsystems?

I liked rounded corners on Windows XP. It was the only version of Windows that looked professional and nice at the same time.

Windows 10's design is just bland. I don't know why MS went ahead with this soulless design for so many years after Windows 8 came to be.

Windows 11 tries to be nicer but really it's just a fancy cover on legacy designs left over from since Windows 3.1.

>I don't know why MS went ahead with this soulless design for so many years after Windows 8 came to be.

My guess is they need it to feel different enough to justify the price tag of a major upgrade.

In reality the changes behind the scene since Windows 7 have been incremental.

Vista*

> I liked rounded corners on Windows XP. It was the only version of Windows that looked professional and nice at the same time.

It's interesting you say that, since I remember back at the time XP was released, so many people complained about how Windows XP had a "Fisher Price" UI that was distinctly non-professional. (Personally, I always liked XP's look.)

That’s why I always switched to XP silver instead of the default blue.

I always liked using Olive Green, mostly because no one else used it so it made me feel cool and different.

Same.

Yeah, the huge blue window decoration with the giant red X and to a lesser degree the mismatched scroll bars really gave it a cheap look, IMO. The rest of the GUI design was actually quite nice. Just these extreme primary colors, overly large GUI elements, and mismatched colors did look bad to me.

Now that's a first to me. Like other commenters said, I also think there was nothing nice about Windows XP's theme. It looked clunky and childish. I mean, I know some people who liked it, but never have I heard anyone refer to it as professional looking.

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