Theme: Windows 95 Project

[eggi36]

I call this theme "Windows 95 Project". I modyfied Windows xp so that it looks like Windows 95. There are still some little bugs with the icons.

If you want to download it, look at deviantart: http://eggi36.deviantart.com/#/d3232la

[Pwned]

Wow, thanks. I will install this on my XP VM.

[Suumpmolk]

replace shell32 and netshell and explorer icons
then lover quality in registry to... 16 or 8 BPP


sometime I realy do miss that old Shell look

[benjmole]

That is SUPER cool. Thanks.

[eggi36]

@Suumpmolk Where is the registry string? I've changed in my nvidia driver the color to 8bit and then back to 32bit, but I have to to this after every restart again.

[Suumpmolk]

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics\
"Shell Icon BPP" values

you can also change it under HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics
so it will apply for ALL NEW created user accounts in future

[oasiz]

Ah, I liked the solid, bright contrasts. These days everything is just pastel and shiny or glossy, no contrast.
I should try this for fun at some point.

Remember to add that horrible "Click here to star!" arrow that points to the start button
(or was it win98?)

[betaluva]

i made a windows xp explorer that displays Windows 95 on the start menu, the explorer version is 6.00.2800.1106 (xpsp1.020828-1920), http://www.mediafire.com/?7q88uvajlww8u

(i made this many years ago )

[WinPC]

Ah, I liked the solid, bright contrasts. These days everything is just pastel and shiny or glossy, no contrast.
I should try this for fun at some point.

Remember to add that horrible "Click here to star!" arrow that points to the start button
(or was it win98?)

Actually, the actual message was "Click here to begin", and was first featured in "Chicago" a few months before the name was changed from Windows 4.0 to Windows 95 in August 1994, with the earliest build publically available to have this minor charactoristic being Build 122 from June 10th, 1994.

It might also interest you (and others here) to know that the assorted tip feature (starting with "Click here to begin") in the Chicago Beta 1 series of builds (most notably Build 122) was later seperated from the taskbar and reintegrated into the "Welcome to Windows 95" application (having almost certainly been merged with the "Welcome to Windows" box that appears on the first boot after such Chicago Beta 1 series builds as Chicago Build 122 before the shell loads), though even as late as Windows 95 OSR 2.1, you will see a more recent attempt at the "Click here to begin" message with a slightly more modern look whenever the EXPLORER.EXE shell is abruptly executed.

Also, as far as I know, Windows 95 OSR 2.5 and later, or installations of Windows 95 up to OSR 2.1 as well as installations of Windows NT 4.0 up to Service Pack 3 that were installed together with the updated shell from Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher did not have the "Click here to begin" feature at all, since it was not a charactoristic found in the updated web integrated versions of the Windows shell files from what I've seen before.

[Panda X]

I've seen a lot of Win9x mods for XP+ throughout the years. And almost all of them suck. Except this one. You did an amazing job.

[Suumpmolk]

i made a windows xp explorer that displays Windows 95 on the start menu, the explorer version is 6.00.2800.1106 (xpsp1.020828-1920), http://www.mediafire.com/?7q88uvajlww8u

(i made this many years ago )

sp1 explorer = unpatched

[eggi36]

Thank you for all your nice comments.
I've also replaced the Windows xp resource in the start menu so that it normally has to show Windows 95, but there was no resource for the Media Center Edition.
For the comment with this throbber and the adress bar: At first thank you for the remover, but Windows 95 has an adress bar. My theme is based on my old laptop with win95 osr2.5:

[CaptainZana]

Am i the only one who remembers the inexperience patcher when seeing this?

[renatobrazilian]

I will install in Virtual PC, to test and see if it works properly!

[6970137]

It's very amazing your pic of the 95style.

how to make this????

[Windows2000guy]

Thank you, this is seriously the best Windows 95 theme for XP I have ever seen in my whole life! I will try this on my XP vm right away! if it is successful on the VM, its going on the host PC to! Will you make one for vista x64?

[lhn555]

Wow! Awesome! I don't have a Windows XP machine handy to try it on, though.

[tonynoname]

Wow! Awesome! I don't have a Windows XP machine handy to try it on, though.

What about a vm?

And why's there a windows95 theme when you can choose "Windows standard" from the menu?

[Cats869]

And why's there a windows95 theme when you can choose "Windows standard" from the menu?

Maybe because the Windows 95 theme is probably a better theme to choose if you want your Windows to actually look like Windows 95 instead of standard? Windows 95 theme is much more accurate in detail vs Windows standard theme when comparing to an actual Windows 95 GUI.

[tonynoname]

I see now that it actually makes them look like windows 95 more than the standard theme. Very cool!

[jman6495]

oh how i miss my 98 machine , i blew the graphics card up , but i miss it , my first pc love this ! will install on my xp machine

[DMax]

Love this too, will install on my XP netbook and yes I think this looks more like 95 than the standard theme.

[SlimjimXP]

Excellent - I tried it out and it looks amazing. Will install this on my XP VM

[J4ckst3r]

This looks brilliant. I remember Windows 95, once upon a time. I'll test it in my XP VM to see if it's more brilliant!