They have been copying the W95 look and feel since 1995. All the bells and whistles since add little value and what we have lost was of more value. Windows 95 was the best OS ever created, all the valuable look and feel of every version since and it ran on 4MB RAM and 20MB HD. Nor, apparently, are very many people embracing Windows 8 - which is a good thing a lack of sales may well bring Microsoft back to the straight and narrow.Ĭonfigure The Windows 7 "To Work" Options Configure The Windows 8 "To Work" Options Configurability and utility are apparently not coming back. I agree that the loss of configurability is terrible, but this is kind of old news now - and you're not going to get many folks agreeing with you because it's notįashionable. In my case I missed the drop shadows around windows very much, and set out to find a way to bring them back. I have stopped short of replacing the theme, but have set up Aero Glass via a 3rd party tool. There are ways, though they involve installation of software to "hook" things (basically, hacking) that you can bring back the ability to load desktop themes, and even to bring back Aero Glass to the Windows 8.1 desktop. There are clearly different forces driving it. On purpose, presumably to make us dislike the desktop and make it more likely we'll migrate to something else (such as use of Metro/Modern, possibly on a portable device).Īs much as you'd like to believe this is the same Microsoft that brought us Windows that "was always so good!" it's not.
Microsoft took away our ability to customize your desktop to make it easier to use