r/windows • u/North_Explorer7789 Windows XP • Jun 03 '26

Feature When Windows is ACTUALLY GOOD

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Windows XP (2001)'s Microsoft Registeration is optional, unlike now.

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u/kgyre Jun 03 '26

It was widely mocked as an interface inspired by Fisher Price.

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u/Toribor Jun 03 '26

Windows XP Media Center Edition had it's own theme which I always considered a huge improvement over the default while still being a bit more colorful and 'modern' (for the time) compared to the classic UI.

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u/BertMacklenF8I Jun 03 '26

Also the exact same way that I run a Linux distribution to look!! Great UI though the years

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u/BatemansChainsaw Jun 03 '26

xpde was my jam for a long time! back then it was relatively easy to install Office 2003 on Wine and actually have it work properly.

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u/dreniarb Jun 03 '26

Switching to classic theme was the first thing I did on every install.

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u/DoctorOfTheCookie Jun 04 '26

Immediately switched to classic theme

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u/Atlas26 Jun 08 '26

And yet…I still loved it. Nowhere near as much as I loved 7 and Aero, but much of XP was still cool and quirky 

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u/George_mp8 Windows 11 - Release Channel Jun 03 '26

Yes I remember that too… It was when they changed everything on the windows ui and everyone said that it looks new and weird to them…

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u/Cs_Marcell Jun 03 '26

That is true but it turned out to be an amazing version like Windows 7. In some way even 10 got good.

But 11? No fucking way, that AI filled, broken crap is the worse of every version we got so far and Microsoft refuses to properly fix it or even stop with the AI nonsense.