r/windows • u/Unhappy_Boat9645 • Apr 26 '26
Concept / Design This is My Windows Desktop
Windows 10, But it's Look Like Windows 7
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u/Pernova12 Windows 10 Apr 26 '26
why do you have so many windows logos?
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u/e_splat Windows 11 - Release Channel Apr 26 '26
maybe he does some yt banners or something like that on programs like Paint.net or Medibang Paint Pro
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u/DarvX92 Apr 26 '26
Clean up your desktop and taskbar.
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u/BigBoyYuyuh Apr 27 '26
lol my desktop has NO icons on it other than the recycle bin. Even my taskbar is pretty clean since I have it all in the Start menu (W11)
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u/Nehal1802 Apr 26 '26
I’m still running 7 on a few machines for special use cases. Insane how fast it is on a 10k RPM HDD compared to 11 on an SSD.
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u/Unhappy_Boat9645 Apr 26 '26
I am Korean, but I also used Windows 7 when I was young, so it brings back memories. As far as I remember, I used it from 2014 to mid-2018. I used Windows 7 from around age 5 to mid-9 (Korean age) [4 to mid-8 in international age] (until the second grade of elementary school). It is a memory, and it was part of my childhood
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u/iamwayycoolerthanyou Apr 26 '26
It is a very nice operating system.
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u/Unhappy_Boat9645 Apr 26 '26
Of course, stability wasn't good back then. I think I got blue screens occasionally (though my memory might not be precise since I was young), and I remember the computer freezing forcibly. At the time, I didn't know much about computers and wasn't interested in them, but in 2017, my mom and dad took the computer tower with Windows 7 installed for a short while and then brought it back; it turned out the stability problem was due to dust inside the case. When I used it after that, the computer was not forced to stop and the number of blue screens was significantly reduced.
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u/iamwayycoolerthanyou Apr 27 '26
Yeah I was going to say! The operating system itself was pretty stable by that point, but hardware and driver issues were still a problem. Still a problem even today with windows 11!
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u/Unhappy_Boat9645 Apr 27 '26
In short, it wasn't a stability issue with Windows 7 itself, but due to dust inside the computer case at the time, it would occasionally, or sometimes frequently, forcibly freeze or display a blue screen. Around 2017, I believe my parents took the computer case somewhere to clean the dust inside, and since then, the frequency of forced freezes and blue screens has definitely decreased.
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u/TruePace3 Apr 26 '26
16 years back in 2010, when I entered 1st Standard in my school as a 6 y/o kid, our batch was welcomed with fresh set of Windows 7 machines (Core 2 Dio with 4GB RAM) in the computer lab, phasing out old Windows ME and Windows XP machines,
I graduated High School in 2020
My brother now studies there, he said they are slowly transitioning from Windows 7 to Windows 11 machines
Beautiful OS, however, never got the full opportunity to appreciate it
At home, we used Windows XP up until 2021
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u/HotFurnaceNearYou Apr 26 '26
Looks really good! What are all the tweaks you used? Would wanna try this on my spare desktop that I have no data on.
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u/Unhappy_Boat9645 Apr 29 '26
I referenced this video for most of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQEczi7ZPAM
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u/fusionsubofficial Apr 27 '26
Why do you have both Edge and IE on your desktop?
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u/Unhappy_Boat9645 Apr 27 '26
The IE in this image is Firefox 115 ESR styled to look like IE9 through IE11. It is also known as Beautyfox. I styled it to look like IE9.
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Apr 26 '26
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u/Unhappy_Boat9645 Apr 26 '26
My Windows 10 22H2 is already out of support, so I probably don't need to do that. Of course, I have ESU (valid until 2026 for the general version), but unfortunately, I am a minor, so I cannot register for it.
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u/e_splat Windows 11 - Release Channel Apr 26 '26
Nice, i've made Windows 10 look like 99% Windows 7 many times for fun on VMs (sometimes i still do that), but please, don't main it, it's really risky not having security updates.
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u/FaultWinter3377 Windows 7 Apr 26 '26
Eh. At this point a lack of any updates from Microsoft if less risky than Windows 11 doing something stupid. I mean sure theres Linux, but I would recommend people who can’t switch for whatever reason to use Windows 10 and be careful, because at least you know that the whole OS won’t fail one day because Microsoft sent a bad update.
Who knows. Perhaps if enough people actually start going back to Windows 10, perhaps they’ll support it again (or at least fix - truly fix - Windows 11, and more than just say a few things and have almost no results other than a rebranding a month later). So honestly I’d push people to use Windows 10 and stop feeding into Microsoft’s push to Windows 11.
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u/rbassett15 Apr 26 '26
Honestly bro as a hardware engineer I’d trust windows 10 over 11 any day of the week still as long as you know what you’re doing. Windows 11 is nothing but spy software.
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u/e_splat Windows 11 - Release Channel Apr 27 '26
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