Does anybody miss the transition effects that Windows Vista and 7 had?

[Tolbs]

Does anybody miss the transition effects that Windows Vista and 7 had when turning on, and then showing your desktop or turning off your computer? This was mostly removed in Windows 8, although when you shut down your computer, the transition effect is faster compared to Vista and 7.

For Windows 7, the transition effect to the logon/Welcome screen was removed, I was disappointed in that, and the startup sound does not sync with the logo.

0:57, 1:04 and 1:23

Examples in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcDiDGa ... rNostalgia

[dixieLH]

still using 7, so NO !

ha ha

[anonymous74]

I miss everything about Vista and 7's UI. The garbage we're stuck with now is just disappointing graphical design. The web, operating systems, phones, it all looks the same and it all looks bad. At least this site hasn't hasn't fully gone down that path yet, although I still think the old colored logo from several years back looked better.

[Tolbs]

I miss everything about Vista and 7's UI. The garbage we're stuck with now is just disappointing graphical design. The web, operating systems, phones, it all looks the same and it all looks bad. At least this site hasn't hasn't fully gone down that path yet, although I still think the old colored logo from several years back looked better.

Totally agree with all of that. Window animations, transparency, and the old logo looked better. Shame of how the UI went downhill starting with Windows 8...

[anonymous74]

I don’t mind windows 8 too much. The early metro app animations and styling can actually look pretty nice, look at the Zune software to see what I mean. windows 10 is where in things went downhill even farther in my opinion. 7 is better though.

[shiny]

I do, it was such a smooth transition. But to be honest, Microsofts and mine opinions on how the OS should look and behave have misaligned long time ago, so I dont even care

[Zv45Beta]

Windows 8.1 looked really good, actually, together with Windows Phone. The UI was decently consistent, apart from the skeuomorphic icons that were leftovers from Win7... at least you didn't have a mish-mash of different UI designs and standard like Win10 did, and let's not forget how bad it looked back in the 1511/1607 days

[gtgamer468]

The tile behavior with Start in Windows 8.x was far more superior than what Windows 10 gotten. It's a lot easier to organize the pinned apps when you needed to move or remove them. Windows 11 is just abysmal in general with its Start (which is hardly a menu).

[Zv45Beta]

Well I basically consider the Win11 start menu to be a big advertisement, especially when you get all the junk in the 'Recommended' section and you can't hide it, as far as I know

[anonymous74]

Animations in general have taken a huge nose-dive since Windows 10. Everything is way too subtle now. The pronounced animations in Windows 8, especially with the backgrounds in the start screen made it look decent, even if the iconography was too basic and flat in many places. Still doesn't beat Aero though, that's a UI that actually looked good. I'm a sucker for that frutiger aero visual style.

At some point I'm going to purchase, upgrade, and mod a ThinkPad T430 to use as a super nice Windows 7 laptop. Maybe I'll also dual-boot it with some form of Linux.

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It's really fascinating to look at the direction Windows is going in, that is, telemetry and advertising. Besides for the tabbed file browser, I can't think of a single real useful feature Windows has introduced in years. Everything they make (like those crappy new widgets) are just a way to track you, bloat the experience, or send you to Bing in microsoft edge. No thanks.
I never would have even remotely considered switching to Linux if it wasn't for Microsoft doing this, but yet here we are. I honestly really don't want to switch to Linux. It's difficult to use, requires lots of troubleshooting to set up properly, doesn't support all the software I need, and it doesn't support the latest generation hardware very well a lot of the time. But I am NOT switching to stock Windows 11, EVER. Nor will I ever switch to any AI-focused garbage that I hear rumors about (Windows 12?).
For now I'm using 10 on my main laptop and ClassicExplorer'd 11 on my on-the-go laptop, but even the Classic Explorer experience can be buggy. Will probably switch to Linux on my on-the-go system rather soon, not much I use on it that won't run on Linux. Just browser and code editor.

[Zv45Beta]

Don't even mention using RDP on Windows Server, especially when you are connected from a VPN on a slow internet connection. At my workplace, the animations make my RDP sessions so laggy and they're force enabled by default! At least they were disabled by default on 2012 R2, but on 2016 and newer it's chaos. And no, even a domain-wide Group Policy tweak wouldn't help, as i'm using the "Modem" quality option and the animations are still there...