There are actually still more Windows 3.x remnants, one of which is inside the Command Prompt. If you open the Properties window by right clicking on the title bar (which literally no other program does these days) and go to the size section, you'll see a preview which uses a menu button and a minimize and maximize button, the same style as 3.1's window controls. In MCC, the "multi document interface" is used (basically the Program Manager interface which let you have multiple sub windows inside one parent window), even though there's very little point to it. The child windows also use the Windows Aero Basic theme.

I know about the Multi document window. Microsoft abandoned it in Vista or 7.

https://youtu.be/PrY3qhhflH4

Also, not sure if this is from 3.x exactly, but there's the dialer.exe program for making calls on your you know... telephone line.

true! i've been using windbg for quite some time, i don't know how that flew over my head

true! i've been using windbg for quite some time, i don't know how that flew over my head

I saw the remnants of Windows XP straight from the Task Scheduler before, and this involved the privilege dialog to run the task!

Oh, and by the way, thank you for putting my favorite song "Synchobonk". It was my favorite before. The reason why I hated Microsoft is because of the remnants straight from Windows 98 all the way to Windows 10, in Windows 11!!! I can't believe we actually got used to it long ago! Curse Microsoft For This!!! And they didn't start with a clean slate and design it into a fully working modern system. Heck yeah, Fedora and all other Linux distros and some others including HaikuOS, KolibriOS and MenuetOS are about 5 to 25 times better than Windows 11! Maybe you had tried Linux before.

I got an error message once in Win7 when I was running some programs for Windows 1.x or 2.x... it went something like "This program was made for a version of Windows before 3.1, are you sure you want to run it?" The same message appears in 3.1 when you try to do something like that. Now, I'm not sure if it's accessible still, since 64bit Windows can't run old 16bit apps, but I'd bet you it's still in there in the code. And there are probably more. Maybe you can get it with NTVDMx64... I haven't tried.

MCC case exists on Office apps up until now as well, if I remember correctly. It might use some different method to achieve that, but still the same result with Windows Aero Basic theme if I remember correctly. Just tested on Office 21. :)

@@IrisGalaxis Another YouTuber Michael MJD made a video about running Windows 1.x, 2.x, and 3.x programs in Windows 10, and he got the same messages.

I forgot about another DOS leftover: Open any executable file in a text editor. The first line will likely contain an error message saying the program isn't for MS-DOS. Apparently, just in case you try running any Windows executable in DOS, that message still needs to be there.

@@mjdxp5688 Then it's surely still there in 11. I know Michael, but I haven't seen that video. I'll check it out.

How do you get to the multi document interface window?

How do you get to the multi document interface window?

@@SubtotalAnt8185 not much from those, sadly. They were really small, and 3.0 basically changed everything

@@Astra3yt Probably from Windows 95. I don't recall that in 3.x.

@@Astra3yt Probably from Windows 95. I don't recall that in 3.x.

@@IrisGalaxis 3.0 was not a major milestone, you might mean 3.1. Windows 3.1 was when windows was starting to become popular, but I believe that title goes to windows 95.

@@SubtotalAnt8185 i didn't mean popularity-wise, but codebase-wise

@@SubtotalAnt8185 i didn't mean popularity-wise, but codebase-wise

You can right click on the title bar if it uses the windows default frame.

You can right click on the title bar if it uses the windows default frame.

@@_GhostMiner I'm talking about the option to open properties from the titlebar right click menu

@@Endermanch Using a proper msstyle can remove that aero basic

@@Endermanch Using a proper msstyle can remove that aero basic

all app's child windows use win basic because they arent top level and they lazy for applying same theme for non-top level windows

@@HAKANKOKCU It's still an msstyles thing. Microsoft never bothered to update it

@@HAKANKOKCU It's still an msstyles thing. Microsoft never bothered to update it

@@koduflower2000 and if you create a basic task, in the "configure for" section, it still says "Windows Vista™, Windows Server™ 2008"

Also, if you doubleclick on icon in the title bar, the program will close. So in a sense, the icon became the "menu" button that was used in windows 3.1

Did you know I'm using you as inspiration because I want to make some service packs not the ones that will help you but some that uses a lot of the windows backwards compatibility like using technologies based on Windows 95 and various of NT lines of windows when that happens you'll be looking at Windows 11 very definitely like the kernel would have spilled the beans all of what was actually locked up from those years passed after that operating system has surpassets outdated line which is very difficult for me to say the obsolete expiration date

@@hikkamorii Nope, that don't work for DOS programs in Windows 3.1. Also there was no 'right click the titlebar' or properties window.

I swear you folks are describing Windows 95 and higher, but definitely not Windows 3.1

@@_GhostMiner Not on Windows 3.1, there was no 'right click on the titlebar'

@@_GhostMiner Not on Windows 3.1, there was no 'right click on the titlebar'

@@southernflatland You're very incorrect, you DOUBLE CLICK the minus/menu button in windows 3.1 to close a window, and starting with windows 95 it became an icon, but the double-click to close remained. If you single-click that menu button on 3.1, you'll get menu for organizing window, and surprise, it works the same way starting with windows 95.

Actually, as someone who uses mac and linux with buttons on the left, I often use this, very nice.

@@hikkamorii I attempted to reply once already, but I think they rejected my comment as I spelled out the name of the command prompt file and I think they interpreted it as a web link. Anyways, lemme try to comment again...

We're talking about the command prompt, which is a DOS program. The double click to close feature you mentioned only works for Windows GUI programs in Windows 3.1, it does NOT work for DOS programs.

Go ahead, test it, you'll see. I did before I ever commented.

@@southernflatland No one was talking about DOS or other CLI programs though. If you talk about command prompt specifically, it's an exception, since other win3.1 programs use it.

@@hikkamorii Did you even read mjdxp original comment you responded to? They explicitly refer to the command prompt.

@@southernflatland okay then , why did you start replying to me if you weren't addressing me?

@@southernflatland Also, you absolutely can run DOS prompt in window, just press Alt+Enter when in prompt

@@hikkamorii I'm aware you can run DOS programs in a window, I never said you couldn't. I'm just saying that in Windows 3.1, the typical window controls such as double clicking the system menu to close them doesn't work for DOS programs, and also there's no properties page, those features came along later.

@@QuantumScratcher MMC is not that. MMC is things like disk manager, services, etc.

@@QuantumScratcher MMC is not that. MMC is things like disk manager, services, etc.

Kinda sad the multi document interface fell out of favor. Of course the programmer needs put some thought into keeping the application usable on multi montor setups but if it's done well it's just great. Like the way mIRC does it where you can separate child windows from the parent and have a tab bar/sidebar to navigate through all the child windows. It can work with modern style window decoration but the application might need to support it. And if you run an application in compatibility mode it will revert to the Aero Basic theme. It's kind of a trademark oldschool Windows workflow so I don't even think it works with a library like GTK (I think wxWidgets would just turn it into tabs on Linux). But Java Swing has it.

@@mjdxp5688 the this program can not be run in dos mode thing? it's pretty normal afaik, since it's just a header for windows executables.

@@Astra3yt nope it's from Windows XP, the dialer.exe is just a big ass leftover and is useless now. if Microsoft cared about releasing a good system for once (Windows 7 and 10 are good but XP is the best) then they would completly recode the system. Even worse is that all Windows Operating Systems have leftovers from a earlier version of another Windows meaning that WIndows 11 is just a reskin of Windows 10, 7 and even 95.

MDI sub-windows always have Aero Basic as their theme.

MDI sub-windows always have Aero Basic as their theme.

Yeah they didn't bother updating child windows with the modern flat scheme, feels like they are lazy at this point

@@Endermanchthere is the win.ini just hanging in c:/windows

@@Endermanchthere is the win.ini just hanging in c:/windows

aslo the Windows 3.1 default color scheme is still present in the system.(seen using the Windows 3.0 control.exe file using ntvdm

There is also away in visual basic to make your application have windows 2000 controls, window style and everything

the Basic theme is updated but only on inside the os aslo packs the classic theme but microsoft blocked them


I feel Windows is the definition of "If it works, don't fix it."<br>Except Microsoft thought control panel didn't work.

I feel Windows is the definition of "If it works, don't fix it."
Except Microsoft thought control panel didn't work.

Honestly I would much rather use Control Panel than the Settings app. Control Panel just felt much more capable back in the day. Nowadays we've been basically forced to use the Settings app, but still Microsoft hasn't removed the Control Panel.

Even though I still prefer Control Panel, in my opinion it would be better to just kill it off completely than leave it to the OS as a broken cripple.

@@RandomGuy37 I sort of understand why they’ve left Control Panel in, as some apps might call it to do certain tasks (hell even the UWP Settings app calls it to the uninstall applications menu, shows how lazy Microsoft is)<br>But either go all the way in deleting it and redirect Control Panel requests to UWP Settings, or don’t cripple the old Control Panel at all.

@@RandomGuy37 I sort of understand why they’ve left Control Panel in, as some apps might call it to do certain tasks (hell even the UWP Settings app calls it to the uninstall applications menu, shows how lazy Microsoft is)
But either go all the way in deleting it and redirect Control Panel requests to UWP Settings, or don’t cripple the old Control Panel at all.

if that was their motto we'd still be using windows xp

it would be good if they re-added the functionality of the control panel, for example i prefer the system proprieties in control.exe (control panel) or stuff like the  "default program" settings i thing it was better when it was in the control panel.

@@RandomGuy37 and also settings it's more like a mobile thing and doesn't look right in a desktop environment like Windows

I still wish they gave us a Control Panel ported to the new UI instead of that poor imitation of a phone's settings app they came up with. It's one of the major roadblocks that stop me from going past Windows 8.1, and I don't even use that version often. Windows 7 and a bunch of older or otherwise compatible software are all I need for my computing needs tbh.

I mean, new settings app is good but I just wish it had some resemblance with Control Panel. If Microsoft does not want to remove the Control Panel, at least give it a correct dark mode so it could be consistent throughout the operating system and this is where I think Linux excels in like their theming is so consistent that you cannot even find a small rough edge on it like the new Ubuntu 22.04 LTS or the new GNOME desktop etc... <br>If Microsoft wants to make Windows 11 great, they need to get those inconsistencies fixed fast otherwise Windows 11 would become a failure like Windows 8 and 8.1...

I mean, new settings app is good but I just wish it had some resemblance with Control Panel. If Microsoft does not want to remove the Control Panel, at least give it a correct dark mode so it could be consistent throughout the operating system and this is where I think Linux excels in like their theming is so consistent that you cannot even find a small rough edge on it like the new Ubuntu 22.04 LTS or the new GNOME desktop etc...
If Microsoft wants to make Windows 11 great, they need to get those inconsistencies fixed fast otherwise Windows 11 would become a failure like Windows 8 and 8.1...

@@RandomGuy37 They will slowly remove it. I've seen that now when you click on Devices and Printers in Control Panel it opens Settings.

they thought windows 8 wont work but they got bad reviews because dell didnt know the OS very well and just made the hardware, and the laptop I'm using right now originally came with windows 8, and it does not even have a touchscreen!

@@automatedinsanity i want to compile arm32 apps for windows build 15035, how?
Microsoft wont even help me because they literally have no SDKs and they hate 32bit.

"If it compiles, it's done. If it doesn't compile, compile it for Windows 11, and if it still doesn't compile, compile it for the XBOX. If it still doesn't compile, it's a broken insider dev build."

Tbh I prefer the new settings app but control panel wasn’t bad at all

@@half-qilin they slowly remove it, their market is enterprise they don't want something broken for the sake of the new app, hell even 90s app still can be opened using latest windows. even on linux server they use older kernel unlike their desktop counterparts that usually like the leading edge path.

@@relt_ You got to search change system sounds, I know this pain all too well.

@@0zzyp0zzy thats why i use openshell. it has windows 7 style search.

@@relt_ Wish I could use that but I had to change the sound settings for a lot of people at work. Doubt they'll approve Openshell

@@linux_fox If modern Windows was XP but a bit prettier I would be happy. The problem is that as they update and replace these systems they remove features or make them harder to access. Not to mention that the size of Windows continues to bloat, even though the requirements of what we want from an OS havent changed all that much.

@@Olivia-W everything that uses new ui is broken. go back to win32 because that is the most reliable and fast way of making applications

@@0zzyp0zzy nah, theyll love it once you tell them that you cant change it

@@Olivia-W Windows Photo Viewer and Windows Media Player work faster and better than their shitty UWP counterparts

@@SubtotalAnt8185 Agree, Microsoft hates 32bit

They change stuff they think people use the most

I ain't tolerating what they did to my boy windows media player and photo gallery

@@RandomGuy37yeah control panel can even, no it is faster than settings app

The settings app is called the “ immersive control panel”

and also everything didn't work (and now even more so) which is why im on linux now


Retrocompatibility is good. But I think the problem is that Microsoft's idea of retrocompatibility is just building the new version on top of the old one and then hide it. That means every new version is more bloated and you end running way too much unnecessary code that slows the system.

Also, Windows 11 doesn't add anything that users want, it's just "features" that Microsoft (and other enterprises) wants to have tighter control of the userbase.

That's why windows 11 takes up 64 GB on initial install. Windows sandbox's windows 11 image only takes up 3 GB, and that might be including the compatibility. Think of it without the compatibility.


When you press Alt+F4 on the desktop (not in a program), it brings up the Windows 2000 shutdown dialogue.

That also works by clicking any blank space on the taskbar (it will treat the taskbar as an "active window"), then pressing Alt+F4.

@@ThatRandomToast because the taskbar is a window

pretty much every win32 UI element is (even a stupid button, albeit those things are a child to another window), even if a lot of those things don't have window frames or anything that indicates them being a window, but under the hood, they are

@@ThatRandomToast because the taskbar *_is_* a window

pretty much every win32 UI element is (even a stupid button, albeit those things are a child to another window), even if a lot of those things don't have window frames or anything that indicates them being a window, but under the hood, they are

@@TorutheRedFox so maybe that's why the OS is named "Windows" /s

@@unavailable292 it's literally all Windows

I've alredy used the alt-f4 shutdown dialogue, and i agree with World of OSes, that it is a restyled windows 2000

@@World_of_OSes he doesnt give imformation

@@TorutheRedFoxeven the logonui is a fullscreen window, even the please wait and the shutdown interrupted, aswell as ctrl+alt+del

@@Thomario20 logonui gets special treatment though

@@TorutheRedFox it is still an fullscreen window

Also desktop is the windows 3.1 program manager.<br>That's why you get the shutdown dialog when you press alt+f4 on it

Also desktop is the windows 3.1 program manager.
That's why you get the shutdown dialog when you press alt+f4 on it


That's amazing how deep backward compatibility goes in modern-day Windows and I knew you would mention the File Manager (9x) and Command Prompt (MS-DOS) remnants. Even old dialog isn't changed which can be confusing. Microsoft needs to step it up.

I mean, to be fair, if it works and isn't some super-integral part of Windows 11, then I guess they don't really have to change it

@SomeRandomGuy I'm not saying that's a good thing but at least it works

I think it's actually too late for Microsoft, unless they make an entirely new OS built on a new kernel.
I have no faith that most kids today will use Windows when they grow up. Kids today are used to BSD (macOS, iPad OS and iOS) and Linux (Chrome OS, Android and Steam OS).
When I was a kid, we used Windows 95 in school, but I don't see any schools using Windows anymore. They're all using Macbooks, Chromebooks, and iPads, only some of the older teachers still use Windows.

It'd be more amazing if everything followed the same design language

@SomeRandomGuy Microsoft tried to change a lot of the Windows backend with Vista, but a lot of users got mad that some things like drivers just didn't work anymore.

Mac: 2 years?! You can't use that!!!<br>Windows: oh, 1996? This runs perfectly.

Mac: 2 years?! You can't use that!!!
Windows: oh, 1996? This runs perfectly.

@@Michael-Archonaeus this man completely disregarding that tons of home computers still ship with windows and kids grow up with that too

@@gairisiuil Not disregarding that at all. When I was a child lots of computers still shipped with DOS and many grew up with Commodore Amiga as well.


Remember, Windows currently is built on the NT "New Technology" kernel, which was created back in the early 90s to replace the aging DOS-based system that existed. The first version, <br>Windows NT 3.1, was basically Windows 3.1 but with a completely different subsystem. It's unsurprising that a few leftovers from this point still partially exist.

Remember, Windows currently is built on the NT "New Technology" kernel, which was created back in the early 90s to replace the aging DOS-based system that existed. The first version,
Windows NT 3.1, was basically Windows 3.1 but with a completely different subsystem. It's unsurprising that a few leftovers from this point still partially exist.

So what? Almost all modern kernels (NT, BSD, Darwin (macOS), Linux etc) take back to the late 1980s - early 1990s

@@arround1 True, but many of those usually have had more thorough rewrites. Windows on the other-hand is more like a layer-cake instead. At the least they could revamp all the old UI remnants...

@@invalid_user_handle You can't know what's going on, on the code side, and plus, if something works and can't be done otherwise, and has decades of testing already done, you don't touch that. The whole video focus on graphical incoherences and un-updated looks of stuff that still works, ok that. But people here seems to pretend a complete uneccesary rewrite of something that doesn't need to.

Then when windows XP came out, they made it full NT<br>(Correct me if I'm wrong, but) XP was the first version to not have an MS-DOS based version. Even windows 2000 had windows ME.

Then when windows XP came out, they made it full NT
(Correct me if I'm wrong, but) XP was the first version to not have an MS-DOS based version. Even windows 2000 had windows ME.

@@bomberman4046 I disagree. people are still able to look inside windows, as microsoft can, if they try hard enough. Its pretty easy if you just look hard enough and learn.
People CAN pretend, but there are people who are legit.
And Microsoft even tells you that windows XP is nt based when you install it, and it wouldn't make sense for them to go back to MS-DOS.
Try to look harder before assuming stuff like that and telling someone their wrong.

Also, seem* (not plural)

@@satinfoilplays7830 I mean you're not practically wrong. Usually, The NT-based OSes would be for businesses because they needed more power, while DOS-based ones could be run on weaker/cheaper hardware and were for consumers.
XP was the first version not to have a consumer/business divide, it was one single version for both sides, and at this point the DOS-based architecture was becoming vastly more outdated every year so it was necessary to ditch it.

@@satinfoilplays7830 I mean you're not _practically_ wrong. Usually, The NT-based OSes would be for businesses because they needed more power, while DOS-based ones could be run on weaker/cheaper hardware and were for consumers.
XP was the first version not to have a consumer/business divide, it was one single version for both sides, and at this point the DOS-based architecture was becoming vastly more outdated every year so it was necessary to ditch it.


The entire goal of Windows is to be as backwards compatible with previous releases as possible. To Micro$oft's credit, they managed to do this pretty well. Device drivers from Windows 2000 theoretically work on 11 (except for video and hardware accelerated sound drivers). Software for Windows XP works fine on 10 most of the time. In comparison, trying to compile and run old applications on Linux is a mess of dependency hell, and precompiled binaries from previous versions of Linux only sometimes work. The advantage of this is that Linux is a much more modern operating system in general. As for macOS, it just drops support for and breaks things from a few years ago without warning. And again, MacOS is more modern than Windows in general (cough cough bash 3.2).

As a Linux user myself, 90% agree. Almost all external APIs are actually fairly stable, and the dependency mess tends to be a general problem, not just with Linux (although it is more of a hassle on Linux)<br>But, old executables and drivers are a backwards compatibility nightmare. It's almost easier to download the Windows binary and run it through WINE, since at least they have to support the backwards compatibility stuff Windows has.

As a Linux user myself, 90% agree. Almost all external APIs are actually fairly stable, and the dependency mess tends to be a general problem, not just with Linux (although it is more of a hassle on Linux)
But, old executables and drivers are a backwards compatibility nightmare. It's almost easier to download the Windows binary and run it through WINE, since at least they have to support the backwards compatibility stuff Windows has.

As a Mac user, not being able to use Wine for its 32-bit dependencies is kind of a bummer.

@IMakeVideosHere I mean it's a test build so you can expect that

@IMakeVideosHere I mean that's basically what I meant. betas are another name for developmental/test builds.

Yeah, but at least try an update all the ui the same way for windows 11

Well yeah, backwards compatibility is really great, that's true. However I think it wouldn't hurt Microsoft to update the look of some of those older apps and tools. Windows has looked very inconsistent in terms of style for years now. It's even worse now with Win 11 so far. Hope they will fix it as the updates roll out.

Introducing.. flatpak!
Backwards, and forward compatible!

If the dev actually support it(they don't)!

Introducing.. flatpak!
Backwards, *and* forward compatible!

If the dev actually support it(they don't)!

@@raandomplayer8589 So true! Seriously, if everyone could just agree to use Flatpak, that would make nearly every Linux users' day.

linux is getting better with backwards compatibility with things like appimages. <br>it's basically a file that has everything that the program needs to run in a container, but guessing you already know that.

linux is getting better with backwards compatibility with things like appimages.
it's basically a file that has everything that the program needs to run in a container, but guessing you already know that.

@@JessicaFEREM the problem with appimages is the lack of proper desktop integration and the fact that they are portable and can’t be “installed” traditionally. Flatpak is a much better solution, but has its problems (mainly Qt applications, GTK2 applications, and file management). And snaps are even worse, with slow start times, worse theming, and worse permissions.

@@DistrosProjects came to say this but it does allow you to make a sort of time capsule for old software. Windows doesn't have an equivalent for this but it's rare to run into software that doesn't run on windows unless it's from the dos days

It's not really a problem nowadays with virtualization being equal in speed to native programs

You can't use 32-bit applications on modern Mac OS.

Technically they just modify and add stuff to the latest released version when making a new release

@@_GhostMinerBut why do macOS and Linux also support modern features and don't have such consistency and bloatware issues? It's as if Microsoft just give up about Windows development and mainly only relied on backwards compatibility

@@arround1 because Microsoft doesn't care and is terribly mismanaged

@@arround1 because they don't  keep the backwards compatibility. Microsoft focuses change on the parts that they prioritize for the release and keep the rest mostly unchanged. If a feature wasn't prioritized for years or even decades it may remain largely the same. MacOS or linux desktops would've simply removed it, like you don't see Gnome developers maintaining everything from gnome2 on gnome3

This makes me wanna switch to Linux but I can’t for certain reasons

On Linux, when distributing software you should always compile statically or use a more standalone format like appimages. Source code needs to be recompiled

Just because Windows can be backwards compatible doesn't mean that the applications should look & be old.

But windows 2000 pro is 32bit and windows 11 is 64bit only. So the drivers wouldn’t work.

One time I installed a program from a CD designed to run on Windows 98 and it installed with almost no issues on Windows 10. By far one of the most incredible examples of backwards compatibility I've ever seen.

The thing that makes it easier on Linux is chroots, and containers. As fast as a VM (or faster usually), and allowing you to run pretty much any Distro, allowing different Glibc versions, different GCC versions, different Coreutils versions, and so on.


9:47 I definitely wouldn't say the modern Notepad is carried over from 98, but rather from older NT versions. Win 95/98 Notepad could only open files up to 64k in size, while NT was only limited by memory. Plus, NT understood Unicode and Alternative Data Streams, while 9x never did.

It’s likely NT 4.0, which is basically equivalent to Windows 9x for Windows NT.

They recently (1-2 years ago) added proper newline symbol support, that makes a massive difference in usability as well.<br>It's still just a slight update to an ancient app. Which is fine if the app works, but it barely does so.

They recently (1-2 years ago) added proper newline symbol support, that makes a massive difference in usability as well.
It's still just a slight update to an ancient app. Which is fine if the app works, but it barely does so.

And finally, notepad got updated again. The update is downloadable from the MS Store (Only for W11)


While watching both videos my reaction for the most part was "who should anyone even care?"

But there are some things that make some sense if you realize who actually is Microsoft targeting with Windows.
Microsoft didn't care for consumers for decades now, what they care about are businesses! Why? Because they're paying a lot more that any consumer would. Some companies are still paying top dollar to keep Windows 7 alive!
Why there are icons from windows 1 or even that "offline web pages" folder still in windows 11? Because some "Obsolete Corp." could rely on a program that would literally crash if you remove it.

Then, why don't just release a standalone version of Windows which would focus on keeping compatibility, something like win 10 LTSC release. I expected windows 10 x to be something brand new, legacy free version for modern computers but they canceled it...

@@mikoajkubik8204 so, you're suggesting that they should make a Windows, that would make lots of money from businesses, and version of windows that would make a lot less money from consumers?

I wonder which version would get axed first

Yes true, but they also broke the zune software in the windows 10 anniversary update!<br>They are also thinking about removing the wonderful feature-rich Windows Media Player with a skinned VLC media player named "Media player"

Yes true, but they also broke the zune software in the windows 10 anniversary update!
They are also thinking about removing the wonderful feature-rich Windows Media Player with a skinned VLC media player named "Media player"

@@SubtotalAnt8185 "skinned VLC media player named "Media player"" Media Player is just renamed Groove Music, not anything to do with VLC...

@@hmwndp no, it's still there, and I'm taking about the new windows 11 media player

@@SubtotalAnt8185 By "Media Player" I meant the Windows 11 one.

@@hmwndp i think you meant zune music and not groove music.
you know, the app accompanying the mp3 player microsoft released once?
it even still uses that name in it's package name, and the orange highlights, since windows 8 i think.

@@SubtotalAnt8185NOBODY FUCKING REMOVES WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER!!!!


Fun fact: In Windows Server 2016 (and probably all other versions of Windows Server since then), if you dive deep enough into the Group Policy Editor, you can find an interface which is completely unchanged from Windows XP. It looks exactly like an XP control panel window.

You don't even need to go deep to find it

it's the same GUI even on WS 2022. It's called control panel settings, I worked a lot on this recently and it felt like a time machine 🤣

and tbh, I'm so tired of MMC in general being so old. I wish they at least added a dark mode for it. My eyes are killed by mmc

in some windows 10 versions it uses the classsic theme from windows 9x


amazing video! still cant believe that there are MS-DOS icons in Windows 11 lol

@@basedSkeleton lol, I almost shit my pants when reading it lol. I don't even know how a command line based os has an icon

@@Psychopatz The MS-DOS icons were for shortcuts to DOS programs from within Windows in versions 2.0-3.11.


9:45 Technically, Notepad is old, but I honestly don't think it should be updated. Maybe some minor additions like adjusting tab size and maybe color schemes (not syntax highlighting), but the more stuff you add the more bloated it becomes. It's a "large sizeable editbox," it isn't and shouldn't be fancy.

and support for different line endings so you can just open an LF formatted text file without issue

@@TorutheRedFox Notepad got support for LF line endings quite a few years ago, actually.

I'd add support for large files, if anything.

@@malwaretestingfan it has that. It's only limited by system memory.

I'd make it be able to save unicode stuff

Also, fix the undo-redo functions, then it'll be fine.


I know having such old components on a modern OS doesn't make it better or secure, even worse... But those MS-DOS/3.1 icons gave me so much nostalgia.


8:11 the read-only feature is still useful for annoying applications that overwrite files with what they think should be there, read only forces that file to stay the same

but then there's this dumb thing programs do is create a ".lock" file and they don't even need to!


Reminds me how Half Life: Alyx uses the Source 2 engine, which is the sequel to the Source engine, which is the sequel to the GoldSrc engine, which was a Quake engine modification. So, in theory, there might still be leftovers from the first Quake deep within Alyx’s files.

There's an actual example of that. IIRC in Alyx there's some flickering lights, they follow the exact same pattern as the torches in Quake. I guess no-one ever felt it needed to be changed.

they still have half life 1 texture on the source engine

If I’m right, they did leave a legacy Quake font in GoldSrc.


Also I remember in the first part it wasn't mentioned, but in the Media folder, Windows 7 sounds folders are still here (Garden, Heritage, etc.), even if the sounds themselves are gone since Windows 8.

Also, if you enable it you get the windows 7 startup sound, at least in 8 and 10, maybe even in 11?

@@kyokazuto Windows 11 changed the boot sound, and on 8/10 it's just because both use the Windows 7 startup sound as their startup sound.

@@Kiki79250CoC I have the startup sound enabled on my Win10 laptop... it does take me back to the old days of 7/Vista


One thing you missed is that in Windows Fax and Scan there's a custom cover sheet designer that has been untouched since Windows 95


Windows 11 still has dialer included... Like I believe it was introduced in Windows 98. Anyways, you can access it by pressing Windows Key + R to open run and by writing dialer in the dialogue box and pressing enter or clicking run... Notice how its colors are off and its fonts on the individual numbers which are not matching to the Windows 11s Segoe UI Variable...

Wasn't dialer in windows 95?
did people forget about windows 95?
i also believe it was a utility for windows 3.1

People still use dialup so it makes sense

@@DogsRNice makes sense, I see everyone play games and just disconnect for no reason and they use Windows 11


An honorable other leftover from Windows 2000 is the "userpasswords2" CPL applet. It's the exact same window without any changes since 2000.


Notepad and Paint (mentioned in the last video) have actually already been updated to look a bit more modern; not sure why you don't have them.<br>They're also working on a visual refresh for the Task Manager.

Notepad and Paint (mentioned in the last video) have actually already been updated to look a bit more modern; not sure why you don't have them.
They're also working on a visual refresh for the Task Manager.

In dev and beta task managernlooks kind of ok but boring also

Older versions of Notepad and Paint is still included on clean installs

Cus u have insider build, thing that no one should have on their main system
And if notepad and others are updated on your main system
Reinstall NOW
BEFORE ITS TOO LATE

@@a7linked Both Notepad and MSPaint are updated for me and I don't use an insider build.

@@a7linked You don't need to be in Windows Insider Program to get the new version of Notepad and Paint. Just go to Microsoft Store and update them.

@@aweirdoschannel you sure? Thats impossible...

@@ThatRandomToast i updated all my apps in msstore but notepad and paint remained the same

@@a7linked What build are you using? Press Win+R, type "winver", then Enter.

@@ThatRandomToast my laptop isnt on, but i know that im using 21h2 build 22000.6xx<br>Its also the latest non insider build

@@ThatRandomToast my laptop isnt on, but i know that im using 21h2 build 22000.6xx
Its also the latest non insider build

@@a7linked Power it on (or what happened?) and open winver

@@ThatRandomToast it says 22000.652<br>I also looked it up in Microsoft's site and this is the latest non insider build

@@ThatRandomToast it says 22000.652
I also looked it up in Microsoft's site and this is the latest non insider build

@@a7linked werid.. I'm on 21H2 build 22000.613 and i have the new notepad and paint, maybe it 's because i'm using  the pro version?

@@a7linked In build 22000.318 (the build currently hosting on the Microsoft site) I can get Notepad, Paint, and Calculator versions 11.2203.10.0, 11.2203.2.0, and 11.2203.1.0. Did you go to the correct page in Microsoft Store?

@@ThatRandomToast yep, checked multiple times for updates (store and system)
Nothing new
Edit: i got a defender and a maps update but nothing else

@@a7linked Bro my normal windows 11 system also have new notepad and mspaint but before I was on beta channel then moved to normal bcoz beta and dev got same after some time

@@a7linked Which country or region is your settings set to?

@@ThatRandomToast my battery died.
I forgot my charger at home
And I traveled to an another town, I will be back after like 3 days
I will try that when im home again.

@@a7linked it is possible just update them from the Microsoft store that's it

@@kociaparowka1 but i already installed the latest versions, like- i said 100 times that i checked from the fucking ms store

@@a7linked I'm sure... my friends have installed Windows 11 too and they have the new Notepad.

@@aweirdoschannel how’s the new notepad different?

my windows 11 cant update to 22h2 because it dosent meeet the requirements and im currently on 21h2@KSGD1111


What you didn't show was the power-off dialog box that appears if you press Alt+F4 while on the Desktop with no windows open.

Ikr? I think it was a thing since windows 1.0's "do you want to end this session" text, but it was changed to how it is now since windows 95.

@@satinfoilplays7830
And that's also old ;)
Did you know that you can Win3-style close a window in Win10? (double-clicking the app icon in the top left corner of the window)

@@ARandomOSDever
I think so too!
*chuckling*

@@ARandomOSDever
I think so too!
**chuckling**

@@QuantumScratcher
It works only if there's the application's icon in the title bar. If it's not, it doesn't work.
(because you can't doubleclick the icon, obviously)

@@Lampe2020 That's just an intentional design thing. It's not really what I'd call a "remnant" exactly. The <i>idea</i> itself is a remnant but I'll bet the implementation is not. It was likely reimplemented each time they made a major update because, well, it's just an option that's part of what you expect out of a Windows titlebar. Does anyone really use it? I don't know, but hey, if you get the muscle memory, no point in taking it away. Each time they make an update to the titlebar they either say "Ah yeah, we should keep the double-click thing on the icon, that's pretty standard to have" or they realize from looking at the code "Ah yeah, let's make sure that double-click on the icon still works, it's a neat little thing to have around still"

@@Lampe2020 That's just an intentional design thing. It's not really what I'd call a "remnant" exactly. The _idea_ itself is a remnant but I'll bet the implementation is not. It was likely reimplemented each time they made a major update because, well, it's just an option that's part of what you expect out of a Windows titlebar. Does anyone really use it? I don't know, but hey, if you get the muscle memory, no point in taking it away. Each time they make an update to the titlebar they either say "Ah yeah, we should keep the double-click thing on the icon, that's pretty standard to have" or they realize from looking at the code "Ah yeah, let's make sure that double-click on the icon still works, it's a neat little thing to have around still"


Go to the Run box, and type iexpress. That program is straight out of Windows 2000 (ZERO changes!) and looked outdated even then (times new roman title, old fashioned buttons, broken cleartype, etc)

I believe that is even older than 2000, likely 95/98

@@Lu9_ST I thought so too, until I checked Wikipedia.


9:00 -- Not exactly. These screensavers were last updated in Windows Vista, then they removed a couple Vista-branded in Win7 and that's it. In 2017 they even officially discontinued them (lol) but it's still left in the system. I still have a screensaver on my computer, it's a modernized version of XP's space screensaver and it's really dope to see)

Also fun fact: on macOS screensavers are still supported and updated, likely purely for aesthetic purposes.

that's what we desperately need from microsoft but won't get anytime soon

still use xp's logon screensaver despite running it on newer versions of Windows

Minecraft actually released a screensaver program not too long ago - it does actually work!

@@scythal it's not hard to make screensavers

they're just regular EXEs with specific launch arguments (to trigger the preview, settings dialog, etc) and a .scr extension

@@TorutheRedFox I honestly wonder how one even makes a screensaver

@@scythal depends on the complexity

for example, xp's logon screensaver is just a black borderless window covering the whole screen with another borderless window with a bitmap painted on it that moves to a random position every 9 seconds


Very interesting how leftovers of all older Windows versions have made their way into Windows 10/11, even programs used in day-to-day use! Sadly, this makes the design and overall user experience of the operating system inconsistent.


In the latest Insider Preview builds of Windows 11, there are a lot of things updated actually. I would say about 8 to 10 remnants were updated. As I'm running those builds, LogonUI was updated, there's are new volume/brightness sliders, new accessibility menu both in LogonUI and OOBE, new tray icon container, new customization options, more settings ported from the Control Panel to Settings, and much more.

The fact they still didn't move everything to Windows Settings pisses me off... They at the very least could remove the control panel explorer links and UI itself, and open corersponding pages that haven't been ported (I think there are only a very few of them? Most of unported stuff are independent .CPLs, half of them are already linked in modern Settings; and as for 3d-party .CPLs, they could've been hooked and displayed in a separate page, like in an "Other" category which only shows up if system detects any)


While I can understand being annoyed of Windows 11 being sold (most of the time) as a brand new product, that has always been their philosophy and i'm not sure I want them to change it. With each OS built upon the older one, the transition has always been easy and we have to deal with less backwards compatibility issues. And that in itself isn't perfect (just look at videogames) but I still rather this than dealing with an all-new uncompatible OS each time. Slowly upgrading and changing things bit by bit it's something I'm okay with

Yes, although having disadvantages, it has been always been easier to upgrade to an OS that have the same codebase as the other ones. Less compatibility issues and developers are more aware and they have knowledge about what codebase Windows is in. It's just that as time went by, consistency of Windows just went downhill since XP. It would have been ok for Microsoft to update the legacy applications like Microsoft Management Console but they never did. Instead they just packed up the NT codebase with more apps and features as time went by without even clearing anything that won't be necessary anymore.


Microsoft took "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." to the next level.


The dialog that comes up when you press alt+f4 on the desktop is also a remnant of windows 2000 / ME

@@ThatRandomToast Your name needs to be "ThatRandomSystemToastIcon"


2:34 that is the most quiet printer i've ever seen


I really hope your videos about Windows 11's inconsistency go viral. Maybe it's the only way that will actually push Microsoft to make a complete UI overhaul, even if it takes a year or two to do so.

In the stripped-down version of Windows Sandbox, the disk space it uses in the virtual disk is less than 3 GB.
WHY WOULD THEY MAKE THE MINIMUM 64 GB?

I just don't get it, you don't need any apps installed at all. All you need is Edge, Explorer, and WMPlayer, and that's it. Oh yeah you also need notepad.

Microsoft should just let people make themes and not patch them


resource monitor was updated with like vista or 7, there's still the older version of perfmon in mmc snapin, that one is as old as nt4, and many snap ins are, not 2k
also uac settings dialog was introduced with win7. alt+f4 on explorer is as old as NT newshell too. dont forget the 16 bits subsystem and fullscreen command prompt (if you have a driver that supports it) Dont forget activedesktop! about screensavers: their last update was windows 7! and they were introduced with vista. the previous set in xp was a mixture of xp and 2k, then there's the old nt and 9x ones we've known to love, also xp starter had two exclusive screensavers
Attributes is a DOS thing


There also is a very unknown program called Math Input Panel (Program Files\Common Files\microsoft  shared\ink\mip.exe). It uses the Windows 7 style and i have no idea what this is useful for. Also when you close the window the actual process doesn't stop, and again, i have no idea how to stop it "the intented way"

It's for inserting properly formatted equations into documents, because typing a complex equation with proper formatting is nearly impossible.<br>And as for the process never terminating, Calculator does the same thing.

It's for inserting properly formatted equations into documents, because typing a complex equation with proper formatting is nearly impossible.
And as for the process never terminating, Calculator does the same thing.

@@mpf1947 Yeah i watched a video and now i understand. It just doesn't work with windows 10+ anymore. I tried pasting the equation into mincrosoft word and OpenOffice and nothing happened, although word knew that something was in the clipboard (paste button was clickable)


I think this is less Microsoft neglecting old features, but rather continuously supporting them on modern systems. I’m grateful for it, because it lets me use modern hardware and software with ancient accessories, useful in business applications. And windows is a business operating system.


I honestly hope they keep the remnants that are still visually correct (like the 98 ones, the nt one, ect, because that's just really cool and is basically just a callback to the older times.


.bat is also an MSDOS remnant.
Bat files are labeled as "MS-DOS batch file" in Windows XP.
.cmd (Windows NT command script) is supposed to be the newer replacement, but it's almost never used because bat still exists.

.bat is mostly a need<br>Cmd apps works with BATCH

.bat is mostly a need
Cmd apps works with BATCH

is there even a difference between bat and cmd, other than just the name

@@whamer100 i think it's in the command syntax

@@_GhostMiner there's no difference between bat and cmd as they all just run commands, all of which are present in CMD regardless of whether you use a bat script, or a cmd script

hell, you can just directly type '@echo off' into cmd and it'll work (and '@echo on' to bring it back)

other commands that are speficially for batch files, such as REM, can also be typed directly into cmd and they'll do their thing

@@whamer100 No, .CMD files run like you type them in a command prompt.

@@TorutheRedFox No, some variables need two percent signs in batch files, but in .CMD files they only need one.

.Bat was revamped to use the NT Kernel's API, so technically the format was changed.<br>But, most of the built-in API did not change.

.Bat was revamped to use the NT Kernel's API, so technically the format was changed.
But, most of the built-in API did not change.


Windows 11 is pretty much just a bunch of code taped together in the hope it won't die on them, somehow by whatever miracle they managed to ship an operating system that didn't instantly completely break

they do one years worth of testing, basically stapling these metal bricks of code together. They couldn't do it, so they just made windows 10 worse and called it a day.

Everything from the early NT days was built to last, and that turned on Microsoft when at some point they realised taking the remnants out was very hard due to them being hardcoded into the system


6:45 Thank you for the nostalgia.
Wow, I thought at 12:45 the fox icon was a trick of you, but I looked in my W11 and it's really there


When you run Windows Media Player there is a theme that was made for windows xp and it's functional on win 10

Windows media player themes now that is a throwback

Tbf wmp hasn't really been touched since windows 7 anyways 😂

@@rainemusic And I think it's still better than whatever Microsoft tried to bundle as the new WMP (at least in 10, Groove was so crippled in features that wmp was more compelling to use).

@@Eduar6996 ye groove is just a lag hell but somehow wmp is 100x faster yet has more features

@@blastbottles The sync feature... And they plan to remove that in the future.

@@blastbottles actuallly, the newest build of groove isn't that bad. i have a bunch of SiIvaGunner albums in flac and groove no longer stutters while switching the song.


windows has so many legacy things in it, it starts look like an interactive museum


The HTML Help program (Which happens to be accessible from the ODBC Data Source directory picker) has a copyright date from 2002, meaning it was last updated probably from Windows 2000/XP.


For me, when i was in Visual Studio, whenever it froze the window borders would change to the ones that were from Windows Vista Basic.


8:05 There are also two Properties windows - one when you right click a file on an NTFS drive, and one when you right click a file on a FAT drive (this uses Tahoma instead of MS Sans Serif)


People at Microsoft definitely follows this programming rule, "If it ain't broke, then dont fix it"


idk, i quite like it when i stumble across an old thing in windows, like the win xp login dialog, fills me with nostalgia

Where is the old login dialog? Or do you mean the credentials prompt in Task Scheduler?


Don’t know was it mentioned here by someone or no, but UAC window here is actually from Windows 7, because in Vista there was only two options — off and on, while in Win7 and later it has 4.


I think the "Contacts" folder had something to do with Windows CardSpace. I vaguely remember playing with CardSpace on a Windows Vista desktop in the 2000s. I think it would store the cards in this folder. Kind of like a half-assed modern take on Cardfile?

Also I cried a little when I saw that Vista profile image. Also might be linked to msn, remember that chat thingy?


One thing you missed is that in the C:\Windows\Media folder you can still find 3 midi files left over from 2000

They have been theres since Windows 3.1. I read somewhere that Microsoft keeps them there so that engineers can test to see that sound drivers work.


To be honest those Win2000 designs are better than Win11 ones


11:45 funny fact, the first option is in Portuguese: “driver da Microsoft para arquivos texto” is “Microsoft driver for text files”. Seems like on just that second there are multiple Portuguese named drivers.

@@heart_locket2 No its in my windows too, its an oversight


There's also another old Windows leftover and it's pretty easy to find. If you try to name a folder or a file with an illegal symbol (? / \ : " | < >) a message bubble from Windows XP appears.


Also I found a leftover of Windows XP on the Windows Media Player, you need to set it on Group Policy Editor. But I forgot to do that, it will make the Windows Media Player uses Windows XP's Media Player theme instead the Windows 7 theme.

You don't need to edit the group policy to use a Windows Media Player skin. You can right-click the top bar of the WMP, then select View > Skin chooser, then choose "Corporate", then select Apply.


Fun fact: Splatoon 2's netcode has an unused function to check if the game is running on Windows 98.


btw, if u turn on high contrast mode, the rounded corners will work perfectly, idk wats making rounded corners such a pain on the normal look


In fact, hovering over the X window system controls, the descriptions are yellowed since Windows 95. Also, I consider these properties boxes to kind of 'blend in' with the Windows 11 design, because the check marks and buttons have been updated. Even considering that, there are way more textures inherited from old versions of Windows than there should be


well,if you go by some of this video's logic,even the icons on the desktop might be considered a remnant,maybe the entire operating system in a way,but that does not mean that some things are straight up funny that they still look and operate the same way as lets say 20 years ago or even more. I always noticed old windows remnants myself in windows 11 and I'm glad someone made a video about it ! It was a very cool watch ! I don't really agree with some things you consider remnants,for example the disk cleanup,that's just a feature and it serves its purpose today as it did when it was introduced and aesthetic wise,it doesn't look dated or bloated or just overall  not fitting with the current look of windows,it's just a neutral look,like other tools this video highlighted. But again,some things definitely need an overhaul and others should just be straight up removed since they are very obsolete


It isn't built into windows, but the visual studio winforms designer still uses the old windows 7 classic theme and it looks so outdated.

Thats because sub windows cant use dwm, and since those suckers didint make a fallback theme and decided, lets just keep win vista basic as a fallback, no one will notice, then that theme appears.


0:50 oh my god I remember messing with contacts in vista when I was a kid at around 2009 at least, I can’t believe the folder for it still exists in newer versions of windows. It is so old holy hell.


1:12 How good the part where you put a music of Geometry Dash


8:35
Using kliksphilip dad music, what a wise choise.
Take my like!


These relics are...just incredible. Thanks, MS.


There's actually another Windows 10 remnant. Open Control Panel then change it's path to the computer(or normal File Explorer) to make File Explorer go "This is Windows 10's File Explorer, what do you need to find?"


I hope they never update the ODBC directory picker. Is already an archaeological treasure.


This proves Microsoft is too lazy to work on a actual release starting fresh and clean, and being so lazy they keep apps untouched since they are a part of the system but they figured out "eh nobody's going to use that so well leave it there" and only care about "everyday" unnecessary UWP apps that they figure out it's the only thing they want to focus on, and other aspects is saying they optimized Windows but in reality, it's faster but with the extra shit code it just leaves the thing just as optimized as a previous OS. Microsoft should get up from its seats and showcase really something innovative and game-changing. Not that i hate these old untouched leftovers, but if you'd replace them with something new, and in my opinion, optimized, they would be just fine, but if not just remove it. Like these leftovers would be considered bloat since MS will continue adding stuff to W11, and with these apps unused, it would fill up space, and that's what im saying by truly optimizing Windows. Thanks for coming to my ted talk.

They actually attempted - Win10X. But every attempt makes Windows incompatible with WIN32 software and hardware, which makes it useless for most people.

@@tapafon_red If they took at least the time to get a compatible kernel with new stuff from scratch then it would work out without sacrificing support, and most importantly, if they got the chance app developers and game companies could adapt to a new kernel they can try to start clean; and possibly have a huge update for W11, presenting huge optimization for basically everything, no bloat, no features left behind, all squeaky and shining without having to base around a older version every time.

@@seven7000_ The os WILL definitely still have bloat because Microsoft wants to get you into their ecosystem.

@@seven7000_ Why would Microsoft start from scratch? It makes no sense. Might as well base it on Linux then, and lose compatibility with lots of drivers and programs...

@@seven7000_ They tried something like that with Windows Vista... everyone flipped their shit and called it the worst version ever

@@scythal let me prove you wrong in a sentence: manufacturers didnt have  drivers for vista.

@@seven7000_ ...and that was because of Vista's overhaul of both visible and under-the-hood features which gave it increased hardware requirements as well as broke a lot of compatibility with existing programs.


2:50
Enderman: Yup, that's going on the fridge!


03:44 Well, I actually use "Character Map" daily for getting characters via the "Arial Unicode MS" font, because that font has literally everything in it. 😊
06:26 Well, sadly they broke one more feature of the desktop: animated gif images just show their first frame and not moving anymore ‒ gif images was playing correctly back in XP. 😞

wallpapers are now handled by explorer itself

@@TorutheRedFox Oh, and gif images are not moving anymore in the Windows Photo Viewer either! 😶 Good freakin' evolution... 👎

@@zsombor_99 They still play in the UWP and non-UWP "Photos" app.

@@SubtotalAnt8185 I meant, the "Windows Photo Viewer" software, gif images are no longer playing in it! I know, the "Photos" app (since Win10) plays them correctly, but this isn't what I meant.

They removed the Active Desktop feature which handles GIF wallpapers. Active Desktop allowed you to kinda have IE as a wallpaper, and IE supported viewing animated GIF’s.

@@tflsh Oh, that's kinda sad ‒ technically it become "passive desktop". 😑<br>And what about the "Windows Photo Viewer"?? GIF images not moving there either.

@@tflsh Oh, that's kinda sad ‒ technically it become "passive desktop". 😑
And what about the "Windows Photo Viewer"?? GIF images not moving there either.


Honestly, it's not bad that programs are old, if they're functioning, I mean, even if you had to work on it, except for removing the old compatibilities and refreshing the style, the base program doesn't change. The whole Linux is based on this concept too, take Vim, a text editor, like notepad, going strong since 1991, and there's still some madlads that recommend it to this day. Reinventing the wheel isn't wrong, but selling it as "Whiil™, new edition, the wheel so good you won't ever want to look at peasants wheel" is indeed wrong and deceitful.

The problem is security and potentially performance too. Imagine modern components stacked on top of old one, which is single threaded and can only use 640k RAM. One day som smart hacker makes an exploit of it and it makes whole OS go kaput. It's definitely not great, not to mention that MS still often fails to make bacwards compatibility truly functional and some are forced to stay on old Windows versions anyway.


4:27 I jumped from my seat, as if I've seen a ghost


Another leftover I can think of is the "Windows Defender Firewall has blocked some features of this app". It has been slightly changed over the years, "program" switched to "app" in Windows 8 and the "defender" being added in Windows 10 as well as the gradient and icon being changed in Windows 11. But overall, it's just a dialog from Vista.


I briefly saw a Windows XP animation when I was installing an INF the other day. Latest insider build, lol.

Wait the INF file "Installation Success" message, when was that from again?


Truly one of the operating systems of all time.


I like the Charmap, i used it in some of these "RP maps" which have YOU decide your custom country on even a custom map, it was fun. I used charmap for my names when some of the letters weren't avaliable in my keyboard setting. Good old times...


Also enderman, there is one more thing in windows 11 from vista. The app icons… which are not set by the application have the ‘unknown’ vista icon with green color with aero.


Windows 10 still uses the Windows 7 Startup Recovery menu if your PC manages to crash itself enough times, I managed to make it reappear on accident when I was trying to diagnose whether or not my PC had a bad PSU or bad RAM. Eventually me and my dad figured out that my RAM sticks just managed to get loose somehow which was what was causing the random crashes.

I miss Windows 7, best OS that wasn't a Linux distro if you ask me


"If we forgot about it then it's not that important"<br>It:

"If we forgot about it then it's not that important"
It:


2:11 locale file dialog shows a star for favourites that is from Windows XP


I wonder if there is a way to force windows to use the win vista style dwm without crashing the graphics drivers


but yet they haven't bothered to bring back Purble Place or 3D Pinball Space Cadet (ik you can download them or copy them from another computer running the older OS)


3:20 If this was a video about Windows 10, I'd expect a mention of the Windows Vista/7 startup sound, but this is Windows 11...
12:40 Oh, I look forward to that! Windows is a mess of random old assets, and words, if their random usage of "program" despite "app" becoming the new term for executables counts. "Program Files", "ProgramData", Properties > Compatibility mentioning programs multiple times, even NEW OPTIONS there that say that, and of course the Run dialog in this video.

things like Program FIles, ProgramData, etc. can't be changed because of existing applications expecting those names to be as such

I myself like to think of apps from the internet as programs and apps from the Microsoft store as apps


Part of me wishes I could see something similar for Ubuntu or Debian. These Linux distributions have relatively long histories, so I wouldn't be surprised if there was some minor splash from Ubuntu 4.10 left in Ubuntu 22.10 (and possibly 23.04 soon)


I'm just glad that Windows 11 still has grpconv.exe so if I ever need to directly upgrade from Windows 3.1 all my icons in Program Manager can be retained in the newer start menu so I can still easily access my 16-bit applications....... Wait a minute. No version of windows 11 can run 16 bit apps...... Wait a minute. The Windows Start Menu no longer has a compatible directory structure....

Unfortunately 64 bit CPUs can only operate in 64/32 bit mode or 32/16 bit mode, 32 bit versions of Windows (even 10) can run 16 bit software


Yoo what gg on 250k subs I’ve been here since 40k!


13:22 You'd be right - on Legacy, it is still possible to use the Windows Vista boot screen in 11, though I'm pretty sure it's a slightly different boot argument than noguiboot.

13:22 You'd be right - on Legacy, it *is* still possible to use the Windows Vista boot screen in 11, though I'm pretty sure it's a slightly different boot argument than noguiboot.

and the Vista boot screen is just a reskin of XP's (they just changed the resources like they do with winver)

hell, you can get XP's boot screen back in Vista and later by just replacing the bitmaps in ntoskrnl.exe with XP's, and then jumping through the hoops to get it to trust itself (you have to sign it wih a test driver certificate or smth like that)


honestly im not surprised that they would actually do this


This is a big reason why I switched to Linux. I think it's absurd how Windows still contains code from the previous century.

You can also switch to ReactOS.<br>(just wait until 64 bit comes out)

You can also switch to ReactOS.
(just wait until 64 bit comes out)

@@GoogleDoesEvil this u
https://youtu.be/aGQp_5855nA


Windows 11: can I copy your guys homework?
Windows vista, xp and 2000: sure don’t make it too oblivous
Windows 11 homework:

Well you think that this only applies to Windows 11? The same applies to Windows 10 and older operating systems.

@@GamerBoy705_yt Ik but just for the vid


BRUH

Microsoft should learn how to add spyware without bloating their OS up


I like the older design language more because it feels like I’m not using a simplified version of a program for phones or tablets but just a program designed for PC only.


2:00 I'll kill Microsoft if they touch the MMC.. I love that tool currently, and I really hope that they don't try to force their modern UI into it.. (also, probably every sysadmin will kill them as well, if they dare to touch the MMC)


Fun Fact: last time I tried Word (word 2019 iirc) it still had tooltips screenshots from XP, on the home ribbon too.


Ah yes, comic sans subscribe screensaver xD!


And the most biggest remnant from Windows 95 is, The Desktop!, since 27 years, it was the same


Watching this on Debian 11.
Yeah windows has problems like this, when I used windows, this never really got on my nerves, in fact, I knew it was there, I just never cared.

When I moved to linux, it was so much more consistent. Going back to windows felt like battling a chimera from mother 3 or an amalgamate from undertale. Windows is a mess.

I like Linux, but I could never find the best desktop manager.

Tbh I also like the fast design of lxde too.


The sound panel and property windows are a perfect example of "If ain't broke, don't fix it"


At this point I wouldn't be surprised if the next Win 11 update brought back some shit from Win 3.x down to Win 1 instead of patching out the old unnecessary stuff.


Disk Management also has that ancient dialog letting you change colors/patterns for displayed types of disks. I wonder who ever used that window?


you gotta stop using geometry dash music in these videos man I gotta mute it every time it hurts my ears


personally i like seeing stuff like this, i remember using a windows 10 in the past and seeing the stuff that remained unchanged from windows 7 felt pretty nostalgic, though it did also feel like i was just using a windows 7 with windows 10 painted over it lol


Command Prompt is a remain of MS-DOS that always gotten updated if you think about it


There's some Souvenirs from the Past (Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000/98/95).


Honestly drive letters are also an MS-DOS remnant...which itself is a CP/M remnant...which itself is a CP/CMS remnant...but those last 2 were technically just inspiration as they aren't MS operating systems.


I love MS-DOS icons more than whatever icons now


I maybe wrong but i think the alt+fr shutdown prompt is also a very old remenant. And hey man! Keep up the good work hope you got a good sleep after staying up that late.


On the screen savers thing, I actually copy and paste the old OpenGL screen savers from Windows 2000 into my Windows 10 machines so I can have the old and arguably better screen savers on my machines again.


the notepad significantly changed from Windows 10 to 11, new feature to select lines from the border, new find and replace prompts in new style and redesigned prompts


The 2 MS-DOS DLLs are actually Windows 3.1 because they show the iconic Windows 3.1 DOS logo. Remember when you minimized the MS-DOS app? Well the first image in the DLL is that icon.


Fun fact: if you take the .EXE for shutdown Out of windows 3.1, and execute it in ntvdm, it will shutdown.


9:35 they actually removed the old icon in win 7 they readded it in 10/11


i have smth interesting. i play minecraft, right? and when i upgraded to windows 11 on my laptop, the game would jsut randomly freeze (only graphically, when i was playing on servers and i pressed the wasd keys people could still see me moving). then, when i tried to take the game out of full screen, the UI from an older (idk which windows) showed up, very XP looking, because i used 7 and vista and it was not them. idk why but i think the UI underlying code is still in there


New branch was created on the OS repository in Microsoft's Azure DevOps "remove_legacy_features" after this video


shell32.dll still contents an windows 7(or vista, idk), windows xp and windows 9x icons :3 imageres.dll contents some windows 10 icons and windows 7 yet(or vista again, idk) :3


There is a feature that close window when you doubleclick top left corner of any window. I heard it is remanent of first version of Windows.


8:06 SD Cards also have a physical lock.
8:16 I have a Window XP screen saver on my Window 11 computer.


I feel like Windows Vista is a major foundation for modern windows versions today. It introduced the similar Windows Setup style that is still used today, to user accounts/UAC, control panel layout, foundation of the file explorer style we have today, windows update built directly into windows, transparency effects, etc. Without it, Windows would be very different today.


Unable to set folder/file name to CON... Even winNT isn't based on ms-dos....


Last FULLY redesigned Windows is MS-DOS?<br>How "busy" Microsoft is?

Last FULLY redesigned Windows is MS-DOS?
How "busy" Microsoft is?


I love this kinda thing! Really harkens back to the history of one of the most complex pieces of software used all the time. Most of the outdated UI is hiding in parts of the OS that are either supported for backwards compatibility, or things intended only for use by system admins or power users. Frankly, we're lucky to have user friendly UI for those at all, let alone up to date UI. Fax is still used by many businesses, but I can totally forgive MS for not going out of their way to update it past Vista. And the 3.x era bits are just wholesome, I hope they never go.


Notepad's been updated in windows 11 and supports dark theme too

Also task manager. Although I like the new dark theme, I believe Task Manager has taken a downgrade in terms of being formal. It looks like a Mac, which is absurd. Windows 11 looks like a Mac.

Also, this is dumb: Microsoft kept areo glass transparency even though the feature was removed.


In Word 2016 (don't know about later versions), if you hover on something, I don't really remember what exactly but it's on the top, it would show an image from Windows XP.


Notepad was updated 2 months ago to be a UWP application.


What also is funny is the dialer.exe program which is also unchanged since the Windows 9x days und still works, if you got an old telephone connected to windows. :D


Another left over: Windows startup sound. If you activate it in the sounds menu, it plays the Windows 7 sound, so it is a leftover.


Great vid! I would love to see a part 3 someday.


The most noticeable remnants and oldest are the caption buttons tooltips (like close, minimize, maximize) still has yellow background since 1995

And for the rare case is "update personalized settings" window, the window appear when you updating windows feature update or ms edge with black entire background and it existed since windows 95

But that's remnants existed for win 10, idk windows 11 that remnants still existed or not


I love all you videos keep up the good work!


if you hold down alt and enter in cmd (don't use Legacy mode), it should flash between full screen and windowed. During that period, you should see a Windows Basic themed window of that. If you set a program's compatability to Windows XP, that app will run in Windows Basic too.

Or in any consoles based on Microsoft Management Console (such as Device Manager), press Ctrl+F5.

Basicthemer2 shows that basic theme is in windows 8-11


Technically the Run dialog is a leftover, but it is the most beloved thing to me, especially when I switched to Linux because couldn't stand non-compact view in Explorer (in Windows 10 Insider, by the way). That's how I launch Chrome all the time on school PCs


1:34 That's been there since Windows 2000 (or XP, I forget), just the visual styles changed it

@@ThatRandomToast The "test" button was changed in Vista or 7, I'm not sure which


I think there was a folder texture from Windows 3.X that was kept until some version of Windows (I think 10). I think only the folders that started with HKEY had this texture. I'm not sure. I know barely anything special about Windows, but these videos are somehow fun to watch.


Way to enable Windows vista fallback boot screen: type bcdedit -set {default} graphicsmodedisabled yes in cmd, and than restart


The last OS microsoft completely made was windows 1.0<br>everything from then (except xp) is just the remake of the last version.

The last OS microsoft completely made was windows 1.0
everything from then (except xp) is just the remake of the last version.


The reason theres so many remnants of older versions of Windows in current versions is due to Microsoft ongoing promise of backwards compatibility. Instead of simply replacing an object in the OS with an updated version, an updated version is added and key files in the Windows folder are simply updated to deal with the new variant. In the minor case where someone still wants to/has to deal with older deprecated software, having this system in place allows for this to occur with (in theory) less fuss and applications dont just break. Not always the case and problems still occur. I mean its Windows for crying out loud.

well update the gui and keep the backwards compatibility,after all,its more of a kernel thing


"It will do for now"<br>20 years later...


Bro I heard Code Red and instantly thought of an impossible GD level


Ah, I see Security Alert every time I boot up FSX. Microsoft also neglects FSX in favor of FS2020.


The winver application lost its icon in windows 8.


I love that you use gd music in your videos :)


well for properties window borrowed from Dave, the one who wrote WindowsNT task manager and still used until windows 7 said<br>"If it wasnt broke dont fix it, if it works dont change it", though that window was the most effortless moderinisation considering we already have explorer dark mode since win10 1709 if i recalls correctly

well for properties window borrowed from Dave, the one who wrote WindowsNT task manager and still used until windows 7 said
"If it wasnt broke dont fix it, if it works dont change it", though that window was the most effortless moderinisation considering we already have explorer dark mode since win10 1709 if i recalls correctly

File Explorer dark mode since Windows 10 version 1809


bro I swear to god one time I installed some drivers for my new headset made by Romanians and they had the Windows 3.1 setup wizard looking thing with the background and everything 💀<br>for those wondering, the headset was made in like 2021 or something and they were gaming headphones.

bro I swear to god one time I installed some drivers for my new headset made by Romanians and they had the Windows 3.1 setup wizard looking thing with the background and everything 💀
for those wondering, the headset was made in like 2021 or something and they were gaming headphones.


wait how did it comment here this is some bug


10:34 For microsoft, Interenet means Ms Edge


if you run powershell and type Add-Computer the window will show from xp


Ohh yeah "the Synchobonk" one of my favorites from my one of favorites youtuber's dad :) So nostalgic....


2:36 I had the exact same printer model!


Microsoft installed multiple windows in a single frame on your house. Now i get it.


that was a good old video featuring some good old windows versions with good old music


Just a quick note, Notepad was actually updated in Windows 11. It's now a UWP app. And somehow it's still as reliable as it was before.

The older version is still included in clean installs.


You missed a secret in office: every version since Xp came out had an xp preview when you hover over applet buttons


Microsoft, remove the Control Panel if you have Settings.


Notepad actually have been updated since Win9x. Win2000 added proper Unicode support, and sometime during the Win10 era they also added support for Unix-style line endings.


Sometimes when I enter a program in full screen (alt + enter, f11 won't do this) I see a glimpse of windows 7 basic theme.


You forgot doctor watson from 9X

Its still in the system32 now days
(also write.exe in the windows dir which uses the old icon)


it's Okay "Enderman" IStill Love These Old Feature From Previous Wibdows OS 9x, Vista And 7!!


3:54 i remember charactwr map from windows 7 or xp


8:36 i dont think anyone noticed but, the music hes using here is made by 3kliksphilip's dad and this music is also featured in philip's CS:GO Music kit, his dad really makes good 80's and 90's styled songs and i love it. you should use them more often they are amazing. personally i love atomic amnesia but thats made by philip himself. i also love Crossing those islands which is made by both 3kliksphilip's dad and himself.


Another remnant is that you can still get the Vista progress bar bootscreen (which is just an XP boot screen but only Microsoft copyright). You just need to set graphicsmodedisabled on BCD or bootup Windows on legacy BIOS (or CSM) with a monitor that has a resolution that is lower than 1024x768. The bootscreen will show itself in 640x480. So maybe try it with an old monitor, or an old netbook if you have one lying around since the screens on those were usually 1024x600.

Windows 7 always falls back to old screen on my netbook and it's 1024x600

What! The boot screen from XP and Vista looks totally different!<br>Windows XP has the XP logo. Vista does not.

What! The boot screen from XP and Vista looks totally different!
Windows XP has the XP logo. Vista does not.

@@nurullahaksay its 2022, i think its time for windows 10!

@@SubtotalAnt8185 I don't mean it in a design perspective. Just that the boot screen for the Vista fallback and the XP pretty much has the same code.

@@SubtotalAnt8185 my main machine has Windows 10 LTSC + Fedora Linux<br>Even Windows 7 is too much for that little netbook so I installed Void Linux on it

@@SubtotalAnt8185 my main machine has Windows 10 LTSC + Fedora Linux
Even Windows 7 is too much for that little netbook so I installed Void Linux on it


Meanwhile in the Windows Subway:

"3.1, you've been called up."
"Oh my god, I haven't been called up for decades!"
"..."
"That is all I have been called for? Just a measly prompt window? That sucks, I'm outta here!"


Screensavers are one of the things that are forced to NOT DELETE because it's a part of Microsoft, no os since 2000 will not have a screensaver.


I saw the remnants of Windows XP straight from the Task Scheduler before, and this involved the privilege dialog to run the task!


another one in microsoft edge is if you enter a "unsafe" website in IE mode,such as if ur on a school desktop and do that,the lock on the warning is an old remenant from something,idk version and os,but itsrare to see


Fun fact my whole family (me included) still uses windows fax and scan. It’s a good and easy to use program!


Fun fact - Dr.Phonics - Code Red is a impossible or possible GD (Geometry Dash) level.


I found one - when installation fails on windeploy stage - there is still the Aero style lol


heyy the kliksphillip song was a nice surprise! <3


They take "backwards compatibility" into a whole new level


I was downloading an FTDI driver for my ESP32 and the install drivers window actually still looked like Windows XP in Windows 11 in 2024


this guy would be the best computer class teacher ever.


Fun fact: there is Dr.Watson in Windows XP straight from Windows 3.0


1:43 UAC isn't a leftover, it's a feature.

Lol Enderman wants the whole Windows 11 to be deleted, no matter if it had at least one useful feature


Listening to the music set you have added i remember all ur 3 yr old vids 😀


imagine if there is win1 leftovers<br>that's gonna be halarious

imagine if there is win1 leftovers
that's gonna be halarious


Ive goten the vista fallback startup to happen many times like for example if you have ventoy on a usb then put windows 11 install disk image in the usb not through flashing but just copying the iso then when you boot off of it do ctrl w to enter winboot mode then pick the file and done


imagine how small the windows 11 iso could be if all this old garbage was cleared up, we could have windows 11 DVDs again

512MB<br>The real windows sandbox disk size is 3GB.

512MB
The real windows sandbox disk size is 3GB.


I remember talking with my dad about this video where you exposed Microsoft and he said that Notepad is techinacally a remain from Windows 3.1 but that it was just slightly polished up in Windows 98


naww they're not being lazy, they're just intentionally putting nostalgic features


Wow, windows is very backwards compatible. That is why macromedia flash 5 still works as of windows 11


"Let's continue with the Lithuanian chicken."

I am severely offended.


You forgot to mention that the default cursor itself is a remnant from Vista


They did uodate microsoft paint and noteoad notepad has a dark backgroubd now and paint new icons it still sucks though


I think <i>control userpasswords2</i> is directly from Windows 2000.

I think _control userpasswords2_ is directly from Windows 2000.


there's one really old thing still exist, if you click twice on the icon in windows header, window will close


Suggestion: Do a cool experiment,Try To install VMware tools before setting up windows,When installing windows,When that crappy OOBE starts up,Click on vm and click on install VMware tools and do shift + f10 to open cmd,On cmd,Type in D: and Press enter,Then type setup.exe and press enter


As a broadcast technican on a radio station, i'm happy that the old sound panel still exist, because it's easier to handle instead the modern trash UI.

For real. I always have a hard time fixing my microphone settings with that modern looking UI they made. Maybe they should just redesign it, but don't change everything. That's a real pain for us who's always tweaking and tweaking everything


Did you know that windows 11 still has the aero theme but it won’t let you use it


They took "if it's work, dont touch it" seriously


Notepad has been updated since this video, now it even has tabs, a seperate settings window, a new icon, and is overall more modernized.


What about the Alt+F4 shutdown dialogue?


i found a cool one, press alt when you're on the explorer window, the "help" menu is windows 7 styled


I got a old inf screen while I was installing a fusion io drive. Thought it was interesting at the time.


Well some of the inconsistencies also exist in Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8.x and Windows 10 so that isn't really a thing to complain about

And literally I feel that digging inside Windows 11 takes me from 1991 to today


It's ironic nitpicking windows' outdated stuff with a youtube video that plays loud royalty free techno over text.


I was expecting the 3.x remnant to be the fact that you can close windows by double clicking the top left corner of them


The task scheduler is giving me ptsd from trying to do anything in that piece of shit. What a layout


When you drag and drop explorer.exe into 7-Zip, extract into a folders, go to .rsrc > ICON, you will find Windows 95 to Vista icons (only some of them, some of them are still Windows 10 icon ) (I am using Windows 10 so I don't know much)


If you close everything so you are at the desktop screen, click on the desktop area without icons to be sure, press ALT+F4 and you get the classic Vista era shutdown selection dialogue with drop-down menu.


if you force windows to install standard vga drivers and you have an x86 system, you can run MS-DOS games. no kidding even with the kernel change in windows 2000/xp it is possible. tried that once in windows 7


Phone dialer is also still in windows 11 and I think it was introduced in win3.1 correct me if I’m wrong


What about IE? Or did they finally remove that in W11? Also I think disk cleaner was already in 95 even, and disk defrag likewise.

I downloaded Roblox studio from 2009 and tried to search something and it opened internet explorer and it's fully functional, apart from the fact that once you pin it to the taskbar if you try to open it from there it just opens Microsoft edge, so no, they didn't fully remove it!


Windows 11 is Windows 10, which is Windows 8.1, which is Windows 8, which is Windows 7, which is Windows Vista, which is Windows XP, which is Windows 2000, which is Windows 98, which is Windows 95

which is Windows 3.1 which is Windows 3.0 which is Windows 2.0 which is Windows 1.0


If you put icons as an ms dos remnants then you should put in all the windows 7 Xp and I think 3.1 icons into the video


pifmgr.dll and moricons.dll. Damn that takes me back.


You can use the old trick still. Replace setch.exe with starttaskmgr.exe


uhhh there is no card OR link in the description for the previous video?


I could describe Windows as a huge russian doll, with too many layers from different decades.


Thank God that you can install modern Windows on old computers. Theoretically you can install windows 10/11 on XP era computers even that are slowly as a snail. Is recommended to use windows 7 computers or with DDR3 memory, with few upgrades. You can renovate your device and use it for a couple of years more.


what music do you use for the intro? @Enderman


Thanks for the video!<br>I like though some of those stuff, like icons. For some guys it could be like nostalgic or even cool these days ;P

Thanks for the video!
I like though some of those stuff, like icons. For some guys it could be like nostalgic or even cool these days ;P


Speaking about that Internet Properties dialog you showed off, if you were to click the question mark button, you would get IE to open in Windows 11.

Another way to open IE:<br>(New-Object -ComObject InternetExplorer.Application).Visible=1

Another way to open IE:
(New-Object -ComObject InternetExplorer.Application).Visible=1


Windows is like an onion, it has layers.


2:10 Bro we've got windows 10 file explorer logo and the oldest favorites icon ive ever seen


In Windows 10, Opening the "Offline Web pages" folder, the Windows 98 Bar remains... I don't know why.


I think you forgot one, I guess? If you make an error script with VBS, using any error type (error, info, warning), they still use Windows 7's icon. I have just explored this, so I don't know really anything about it.


Honestly embarrassing for a multi-billion dollar company like Microsoft. Can't believe they have remains of Windows OSes and even DOS.


Seems like if you install Windows 11, you get all of them!


I still use a screensaver for the times when im gaming on my OLED tv to keep it from burning out the pixels


I showed my mom how to use windows  fax just because windows printing function is buggy as hell  and the drivers came with expired verry bad software


love the 3kliksphillip music, always adds so much to a video like this


You can actually invoke the old xp style cred prompt from PowerShell by running Get-Credential.


its sohilarios that microsoft can develop top-tier spyware but they cannot clean up their os


My PC has a Windows XP remnant: Office 2007! It’s tooltips are Windows XP styled!


Fun fact: For the screensavers, the process is absolutely abominable:
In Vista, they changed the selection as usual.
In 7, they removed some and left it at that.
Further, they neglected the entire thing, only removing the beautiful transparency in Bubbles!


Hi enderman pls test windows security against malware


It’s good that those tools are still there, especially the predefined MMC consoles and mmc.exe itself, because all the fancy and modern interfaces simply do not allow admins to properly configure, maintain, and troubleshoot the system.

What they should do is update them. We're used to MS being "either I leave it or I delete it" but what we should demand is updated admin tools that work better.

@@Aura_Mancer The problem is: Everything regarding configuration they updated ended up worse than before (i.e. in Windows 7). They should leave the tools as they are.

I have no problem with user-facing configuration interfaces are designed to look good. Admin-facing interfaces don’t need to look good or modern, they need to provide all necessary information and options in a quick and easy way.


You know how they say, "If it ain't broken, don't fix it"


honestly I'm surprised regedit wasn't mentioned as either 95 or 3.1.


with all these comments pointing out more stuff, this might even turn into series


if you do want to really get that windows xp credentials dialog, you can spawn one using the win32 api


the file prompt at 2:10 is from windows xp


0:35 i like this reference.. chicken in lithuanian is višta if you don't include the little arrow but i think vista is also chicken in latvian


Damn! Never knew this. Windows 11 is really garbage now that I think about it. Just thinking about why I even upgraded


So Microsoft just was bits and pieces of Windows glued together nowadays


4:52 Just a correction. It's task scheduler


notepad now has updated
literally only dark mode
and tabs


ik this is crazy but there's an app called "file explorer" and it's a windows application that's been there since windows 95!!!! microsoft has run out of original ideas!!!!!!!😡😡


I remember when I had Windows Vista I randomly found the Contacts folder and I was confused lol.


NEWGROUNDS SONG NEWGROUNDS SONG, also geometry dash song for death corridor


The command prompt is another remnant that is still left unchanged. The conhost.exe ui was changed but cmd.exe remained pretty much the same. (Try launching the windows XP cmd.exe on Windows 11 and it still works)

cmd isn't unchanged, Microsoft made some changes to it


Windows Vista's Powershell Script Editor.


yep screensavers are even in Windows 10 looking the same way


As a GD player, the first background song you played gave me… flashbacks?


You can find the website with "download tomorrow" button?<br>(i have problem with using "a" & "the" in english)

You can find the website with "download tomorrow" button?
(i have problem with using "a" & "the" in english)


okay the first song confirms that you're using common geometry dash songs


windows 11 is just highly modded windows 3.1 NT


Welp, notepad.exe got remaked in windows 11 and they added a lot of cool missing features


You should try and get the windows 11 to look and possibly function like any other previous windows version


Thats amazing i put a bfb reference on the top chat


ok now know your intro sound name but please give me the download link so it is,(Landscaping-Windows96) V1<br>at 1:36 am i right?

ok now know your intro sound name but please give me the download link so it is,(Landscaping-Windows96) V1
at 1:36 am i right?


Found this video on my non-signed in PC.


Microsoft in 2050: can we fix it? No, it's f*cked


7:50 they didnt even bother to make the properties menu in the new "files" app


That was quite interesting. I had known some of these ancient things still existed, but not that many! Why Microsoft, why?


M$ can just spend more time and money to make Windows 11 (somewhat) more consistent in design while maintaining the backwards compatibility instead of making it looks good on the front (UWP apps, MS Edge, the "new" taskbar (it's just an overlay, the Win10 taskbar is still inside, you can make it to show by changing the registries)) and still keeping the design clash in the inside (Win10 styled UWP apps, Metro style from Win8, Win32 programs....)

Windows 11 is bad. It looks like a mac.<br>Fact: Over half the compatibility used in 3rd-party programs that they kept actually is broken, because one slight change of API breaks compatibility layer on top of compatibility layer. This is why the zune software broke.

Windows 11 is bad. It looks like a mac.
Fact: Over half the compatibility used in 3rd-party programs that they kept actually is broken, because one slight change of API breaks compatibility layer on top of compatibility layer. This is why the zune software broke.


I download the process hacker and its perfect! Oh and i really like this intro.


4:58 This is a direct C R E D UIPromptForCredentials API call.

4:58 This is a direct *C R E D* UIPromptForCredentials API call.


I guess there is the secret to making a blazingly fast application (like Notepad) - just make it for Windows 9x and port over


It is decided! I'm switching to a Mac! Thanks, Enderman!

Switch to Linux, it’s free and it’s better then buying a 1000 dollar mac and there are many distributions out there, I recommend Artix Linux  with the cinnamon desktop or kde plasma desktop

@@automatedinsanity Well, you have a point or two there.

@Watcher I used a lot of distros in my lifetime, my first Linux was mandriva 2005, so sorry if I recommend a harder Linux distro, I probably should have just recommended fedora out of the gate.

@@automatedinsanity As a Windows user, I get confused every time Linux users try to recommend which distro is the best for people wanting to make a switch... what would be the best right off the bat, because people are not that technologically inclined!


The properties window has changed a little (i think). If i was correct,in Win 7 i was able to tick a box which made the app i viewed the properties of,automatically run in administrator. I don't see that feature anymore in windows 10. Is it back on 11?


Hello Enderman, I have some questions about your website, so I used sometimes and in February, the website had shutdown because of the things happening in Russia but now the website is back, so I went to check the Adobe programs but there was only 3 programs, the After Effects 2022, Premiere Pro 2022 and Photoshop 2022. what happened to the others? Like the Photoshop 2020/2021 or After Effects 2020/2021? I use Windows 7 so it's a bit difficult to find Adobe products that works with (If my english is bad, it's because i only know a bit of, i'm from Brazil), also, great video!


You forget the remaning of Vista when you drag and drop a file for the explorer with the old Aero square. (I just check is now a grey ugly square).<br>And the XP mouse cursor when you insert a disk, and more (actually some has been fix with w11)

You forget the remaning of Vista when you drag and drop a file for the explorer with the old Aero square. (I just check is now a grey ugly square).
And the XP mouse cursor when you insert a disk, and more (actually some has been fix with w11)


How do you get the windows 10 style taskbar in the windows 11?


I’m not sure if this one counts but the command prompt executable name (cmd.exe) goes back to OS/2 1.0 (1987) since windows NT is based on OS/2


lol enderman named vista as lithuanian chicken, incase y'all are wondering, vista ( lithuanian : višta ) is chicken in english.


DWWIN.EXE in System32 is Dr. Watson which was a debugger introduced during Windows 2000 which still exists today but I don't think it runs anymore. DXDIAG.EXE also still exists and that was introduced around 98/NT 4.0 I believe but it hasn't been changed much since.


We need the old sound control panel in our radio station because the new win11 settings are very shitty


I would get pretty mad if they changed the MMC and even more mad if they removed the old sound control panel. The MMC is just good classic GUI design that does what it should and they old audio panel is sometimes the only way to fix some audio device selection chaos.


Microsoft just needs to can windows vista's codebase and start over, of course not exactly like vista, but Microsoft needs to change something radical, down to the base.
the installer hasn't changed at all since windows 8 and most of the installer is still vista's age. there's no reason why they can't run a live boot environment like Linux or MacOS, and there's no reason why windows 11 is just glorified windows 10, which is glorified windows 8, etc.
windows has gotten too big with features literally nobody cares about, or could be disabled by default and downloaded on request.
actually, if Microsoft is going to a internet-only world, why not make the ISO as light as humanly possible to get the bare windows up and then download the rest. you can't even put Win11 on a DVD anymore unless it's a dual-layer disc.
Microsoft needs to seek out the windows modders and put them on the Microsoft team, and just allow them to hack and chop windows with little counseling.
or how about this?, allow their users to create custom themes that just work and require no hacks, imagine going to the Microsoft store downloading a theme(or appx) that completely changes how windows looks and Microsoft wanted that.

"you can't even put Win11 on a DVD anymore unless it's a dual-layer disc."<br>You still install Windows from discs nowadays?

"you can't even put Win11 on a DVD anymore unless it's a dual-layer disc."
You still install Windows from discs nowadays?


Hi can i ask ,did you have discord server?


Microsoft logic: ok, we tried hard enough making the old OSes, let's add the price and change 1-3 application per version? Everyone is silent
Bruh that ba..
EITHER YOU AGREE OR REJECT THE WORK
Bruh that good
So, we need to make a new wasp, let's take 10 and change a few things. no one will notice I guess?

Microsoft logic: ok, we tried hard enough making the old OSes, let's add the price and change 1-3 application per version? *Everyone is silent*
Bruh that ba..
EITHER YOU AGREE OR REJECT THE WORK
Bruh that good
So, we need to make a new wasp, let's take 10 and change a few things. no one will notice I guess?


Ok seriously Microsoft. Windows is bloated already, and the completely unused 20 year old icons aren`t exactly helping. Like I`m not talking about applications, even old dialogue's and icon`s can be forgiven, but making a uniform gui is a must. It`s not even that hard. There are like, at least two solutions that I can come up with right now, that would allow you to make a uniform gui across your whole system.