2003-2009:Underrated decade 2010-2015:Pretty neat 2016:No 2017-2019:Alright 2020:NO 2021-present:(My life has been way too fucked for me to give an accurate judgement but we've got more 2000s nostalgia now so)
I installed Microsoft Office 2003, which was heavily inspired by Windows XP, to the point that it even looks blue if you use Luna blue theme. But then I changed Windows theme to Luna silver, and guess what, Office theme changed too. I opened the Word and it had grey interface, not blue, it recognized the change. Office 2003 acts as if it’s on legit copy of XP, not themed 10. Very cool.
Because of money. With every GUI update, Microsoft has to check to make sure nothing is broken. If MS then had to check if different themes are working, that takes time. However, what MS does is licence the ability to someone like Stardock to make such GUI changes. Stardock pays MS a bunch of money for the right to retheme/reskin Windows, and MS have said "Sure, no problem, we won't make any official skins for Windows".
@@Locutus i doubt stardocks does they probably just know the stuff that needs to be modified to make chnages but honestly whoever designs the start menus after windows 7 should of been fired
@@dawn1berlitz Sorry, I wasn't clear. Microsoft does all the GUI work, including the designing and coding. However, Microsoft doesn't really want to get into the game of making themes, or similar things. They would rather someone else pay them money, so that other company can make themes. Stardock pays Microsoft money, for access to all of its GUI APIs, so that Stardock can make customisations. Microsoft is happy, as they don't have to divert resources to a non revenue area. Yes, I agree that the Start Menu after Windows 7 was atrocious.
I really like it how a lot of people still want to have another version of Windows XP or 7, but of course, Microsoft doesn't listen to it's users (especially nowadays) and we're practically left to do our own modifications in order to make it look like the older versions! As always, awesome video Michael MJD!
I can’t imagine the amount of work, the amount of gutting and transplanting of the different OSes required to make this happen on top of what would appear some extreme registry tweaks as well. Despite some visual glitches it appears really stable.
@marcosmoutta how come? I was thinking about dual booting and use this as my primary and then use my other install as a backup for when things go awry
@@CSX8600 Dual booting in my experience is almost never a good idea. Like the video suggested, install it on a 2nd machine if it suits your fancy. Yes it looks fun but it's not the latest version of 10 and it's not officially supported MS software.
Michael is doing less research (or just plain not utilizing basic reading comprehension) and putting much less effort in his videos lately. You'd think this should have been immediately obvious to someone with as much experience as MJD, which is a bit disappointing
there is the windows classic shell to give windows 10 the windows 7 start menu. I never learned how to use windows 10, I just use classic shell and my windows mostly feels like windows 7.... windows 10 is horribly unusable without being modded.
@@escapetherace1943Lol same. As soon as Windows 8 started with that whole “start screen” junk, I went “nope, not doing that” and installed Classic Shell. 10+ years later and I still install it on every computer I get.
The Pinball window title bar issue is just a Windows 10 thing, it does the same if you run 3D Pinball / Full Tilt! on non-themed W10, so it's not a theming issue FYI.
I'm 99% sure i didn't dream this but years ago my dad recovered a windows 7 install with a windows xp recovery dvd and it created a weird hybrid of both, either that or just corrupted it
There was a Windows XP mode on Windows 7. It was essentially just running Windows XP on Virtual PC, but there was a way to get the windows in the Windows 7 ui.
You are not dreaming. My university's computer in one of it's lab has this. There are 2 versions of windows. 7 and XP. And when you first start the computer it asks in the boot menu if you want to run windows 7 or "older version" which is xp. It runs on software rendering mode. We just play pinball and cs1.6. apparently they installed cs1.6 to check network activity. Those computers were in network lab.
I started out with windows 98 as a child and then xp was the OS I used for the majority of my teenage years before we ended up with vista, weird how nostalgic this is !
If I could have something like this but with Vista instead of XP I would die happy. Vista had it's problems but the design is still beautiful to this day.
Windows Blinds+Aero Theme+ Old New Explorer+ Classic Start Menu+ Sidebar+ Vista Stock Icons installed with a icon pack software You get 90% of Vista UI, isnt perfect but its ok for me
This is some excellent work. I'm working on a project that transforms Windows 7 into Windows 95, but it's just going to be a VM image at best, not a transformation pack or anything of the sort. And my goal is to absolutely ensure that if you want to tell if it's a real 95 installation or not, you will have to dig deep. But I'm nowhere close the faithfulness of this Windows 10/XP thing. And missed opportunity to show the shutdown dialog if it's the one from XP as well.
I actually don't care about any of the shell themes, but the Windows 7 control panel and Windows XP fly-out Start Menu. There were more simplistic elements. Every Windows since 8 has felt like I'm working in a phone UI.
I remember using Windows XP Pro x64 as my main OS, so that screen saver isn't out of place to me. 😄 I also remember it kept getting recognized as Windows XP Server.
didn't expect people to use xp x64, it was rare since vista already came out with most 64 bit cpus, even 32 bit was a better option for software support
@@namesurname4666 WinXP64 came out at least a year before Vista. But yes, it ran like crud. Not ME bad, but pretty bad. The compatibility and transition to 64bit was rocky to say the least.
@@tzuyd I remember a friend of mine bought a 64-bit Windows laptop in 2008 and people, including myself, just asked him why he'd do that. 32-bit was still the default and 64-bit was the future that hadn't fully gotten out of the beta stage yet.
@@Free-ii7ke Can't in YT comments cuz of the auto spam filter, but GitHub: NWinXP/AeroFox. I hope this comment gets through to you, but I'll try fluffing it up more just in case. :D
I really like it! Now Windows 10 has a nice simple and usable UI which takes you straight to the point again! I would have loved to use this as a daily OS
@@Ivan-cc9uz I did,but it's not a daily os. There are things that don't work right or don't work at all. This OS was made just for fun,not for daily use
XP was the best-looking OS Microsoft ever designed. Modern but not overblown, very clear and easy to navigate and operate. I loved it and I’m predominantly a Mac user.
For myself I use OpenShell with the Windows XP style menu and Luna theme start button and I've had people who I shared my screen with appreciate it. But this just takes it on another level. I wish you could just install it on top of whatever Windows 10 version you're running but that's probably not really possible sadly.
I just can't handle how depressing windows 10's graphic design is. The entire look of it gets even worse once you Press the windows key and the drawer with junk opens up. For this reason I kept using windows 7 till this month and once I finally installed that abomination I immediately had to modify it too look like win 7. In the end it looks even better.
For those building a nostalgia XP PC/VM (like me), I recommend the Pale Moon version of Mypal + Moonfox3 theme if you want a modern browser with a 2000s Firefox look _and_ compatibility with classic FF add-ons. :D
I've managed to make Windows 11 look like Windows Vista. Has similar issues (although it can also be made to look like NT 4.0, 2000, XP, and maybe even Windows 7), but I'm planning on making it publicly available, once I get all of the pack's contents added.
I am disappointed because this is nothing but rose tinted nostalgia, that praises the worst aspect of windows xp, which was it's default cartoonish look. Windows xp was the ugly duckling of an os. Great OS but it looked so damn hideous. There is a reason why xp modding scene was so huge, with hundreds of good looking alternative themes and replacement icon packs(many of icon containing system .dlls and even explorer.exe were unsigned for this reason).. I mean when even MS made several better themes for xp, you know the default was so ugly.
This is absolutely amazing, it's great to see that people actually make these modded Windows. I'd love to see one modded to look like Vista, I loved the look of that OS. Changed my 7 to look exactly like it, and had it for years up until 2017.
Could you do a video about homebrew and pretendo for the Wii U? When you started talking about your videos about customising windows for some reason I remembered the videos on which you showed mods for the Wii. I think a lot of people would be really interested in the things pretendo and what it brings back from the grave (like miiverse) and the servers for online play
I still genuinely think that WIndows XP looks the most appealing to me. Nostalgia or not, I just love how it looks. And I might really daily drive this (if it's viable for that, ahven't watched the full vid yet)
@@emaneko22 it's still in windows 10 but it's in a slightly buggy state (as it's only kept around for apps that don't use uxtheme and it's only maintained for that purpose)
remember a few years back how microsoft release a skin changer program for windows 10 or whatever it was called? it had stuff from all the way back to windows 1 but all it was, was a few backgrounds, sounds and icons? this is what i was hoping that was going to be. a full conversion to the user side of windows that made it look and feel like older versions
It baffles me as to why Microsoft is so adamant about not letting users choose older themes in their newer Windows versions. There's no good reason that we can't just have Aero or Luna or even the 9X themes added to Windows 10 or 11. Why are they so insistent on this new oversimplified UI to the point of discouraging customisation?
Man, watching this warms my heart so much. It's a feeling that reminds me of the times I fired up the first version of Mafia, or FIFA 2003, or wrote stupid things on message boards. It's like I'm 13 again. I guess this is what is called nostalgia. It doesn't make sense now to use Windows XP, but I would love to do it.
This is impressive. I mean, I couldn't tell a difference in the look of the start menu till you did a side by side. Not only themed to look like XP but has all the default junk with it. Very impressive.
It'd be great if Microsoft just had themes like this available. Like not a complete overhaul but like the ability to make windows 11 look like an older version if only aesthetically
Hey, thanks for the video! I was expecting you to go through the task manager and show us what's actually running in the background. I was wondering if that modification actually gets rid of any of those useless services and background apps. I was also curios to see the ram and cpu usage while browsing. This is what would probably matter to me the most if i'm installing this modification because most of us hate all that useless garbage running in the background! Again, thanks for the video!
i work in the it and i get to work with people that aren't that well with computers and change. mostly elderly people too, if this is a near flawless windows xp copy but with the security updates that win 10 provides. i could recommend these people to install this so that they dont have to cope with change as much. Thats my reason for being interested in this stuff , just thought i should share haha
Michael dont know if you knew this but the same creator who made this XP "MOD" also made the same version but in a windows 7 style. Its windows 10 but it looks like windows 7 and its really good lmao
5:43 I've run my windows 7 in 2011 and windows 8.1 in 2014 laptops without ever updating them, for 3 years each. Never had an issue. They died because of physical issues. Never got a virus or any other malware. Never got hacked because alleged vulnerability. Muh security updates is actually just pebcak. Older systems are fine.
Michael Mjd, I watched your video 2 months ago on February 20,2023. I like this transformation pack, and thanks to Travis, and thanks for exporting this video.
ngl windows modders are insane lmao Like I could probably show this to someone who actually has used Windows 10 and XP before (and are well familiarised with it), and let them use it for an hour and they could probably think it is windows XP
It's really easy to tell by the file explorer. It doesn't work like the XP one at all, the options on the left don't work at all, clicking anything just brings you back to "my computer"
@UC_OjTTKYKbR54MmP_6r14tA Yeah it's really cool already. I already have the injection working and it looks identical, so I just need to work on shell integration and then polish it. I wish I could post screenshots in RUclips comments haha
I actually use this on my laptop for work and school. Its really nice to have something that is Windows 10 but I know basically EXACTLY where everything is!
Its just a cheap-ish 8th gen core i3 Asus netbook I got in 2018 or something. The thing is about it though, Its running on a semi outdated version of Windows 10, so it doesn't have all of the latest security updates, and it runs entirely on an Administrator account which means you run just about everything as administrator, giving anything access to changing things on your computer, but a good antivirus helps against this. Also setting up your own user account breaks the operating system from what I've been told as well.
@@MiniGramV That's slightly annoying about the user accounts. Does it run the same as normal when it comes to installing applications or is it locked down?
cmd.exe seems to be the actual xp version of cmd, which explains the version number (cmd.exe reports the windows version on its own and doesn't actually check it against any centralized APIs)
I'm making a sleeper and I can't wait to do this, I've been waiting for something like this for a long time but the browser is really the thing that impressed me the most, but now we need a RUclips client that looks like oldschool RUclips
Imagine this plus AME(Ameliorated)... could easily convince older people and run on crappy hardware no problem. Absolute looker! What I wonder though is, what is the "bill of materials"? I might not want the full thing, but would love to know about the individual components. Like just getting the Luna theme would be pretty awesome ^^
I'm watching this because I heard about it on a Twitter thread quite recently and wanted to know a combination of 1) how usable it is as a main OS and 2) how relatively safe it is to install, since I don't trust other ISOs. Either way, might use it in QEMU in the future Edit: 1809 is honestly...mildly acceptable for KVM + QEMU but not if I'm running it with no virtualization, so rip
Stardock and alternative theme utilities had XP themes too, and you would think ClassicShell or the updated Openshell might have an XP skin in future. Winaero has the Win 7 games,classic calculator, paint, notes and widgets, probably the closest tools to XP for matching the theme
Throwback to when we all used the same TinyXP ISO, with the GWH28 product key, and absolutely no idea where it came from or what was in it. Wonder how much of my life might be leaked somewhere because of that...
I honestly want this. I would love windows 98/95 even more though. I might be tempted to run this as my daily driver. I just miss the old look so much. Imagine having a start menu without a bunch of crap in it. Or having one control panel which does everything
Oh wow I low key wanna install this on my fun & games pc and actually use a 4:3 lcd monitor with it and some blue-gray early 2000's logitech keyboard and mouse combo. The idea of a sleeper build just got very alluring.
My grandpa is a college prof. and has been using his XP laptop for 13 years for work. The laptop unfortunately was unable to boot anymore just a couple of months ago so we had to buy a new one for him. It comes preinstalled with Win10 and he does struggle sometimes with it. This will be the perfect replacement for it.
This looks really cool. I would have loved for the XP era UI to be maintained and updated rather than changing it every few years and having to relearn everything again.
In my opinion, Windows 7 had the best aesthetics out of any Operating System I’ve ever used. I even have a devoted Win7 machine, but I’ve isolated it from any networks due to its security vulnerabilities.
2003: "I wonder what the future will look like"
2023: "Yeah let's pretend that never happened"
2003 to 2023, not worth remembering.
@@ExWEIMan I'd say every year up until the second half of 2015 had a lot of stuff worth remembering. But now it's all bland and sterile.
2003-2009:Underrated decade
2010-2015:Pretty neat
2016:No
2017-2019:Alright
2020:NO
2021-present:(My life has been way too fucked for me to give an accurate judgement but we've got more 2000s nostalgia now so)
@@JoeContext What ruined your life?
@@HardwareFahrrad Trying to move out of a narcissistic parent's house
I installed Microsoft Office 2003, which was heavily inspired by Windows XP, to the point that it even looks blue if you use Luna blue theme. But then I changed Windows theme to Luna silver, and guess what, Office theme changed too. I opened the Word and it had grey interface, not blue, it recognized the change. Office 2003 acts as if it’s on legit copy of XP, not themed 10. Very cool.
Did you know? Office 2002 is Office XP
@@WindowsTeamX meh no big deal just snuggle up to a nice warm cup of coffee and enjoy🤣
@@raven4k998 You have to read my answer quiet good 😒
THats some wird shit goin on
@@WindowsTeamX bro what
These type of mods are so insane, this looks exactly like XP.
Bravo to the people who made this theme mod.
@@brianbabin6333 classic shell had more inaccuracies
@@dogey8831 classic shell is not a mod
@@ferdinandw.8952 Well sort of. It is a mod for the start menu only.
@@spunkyspice4777 no. its a full shell restyle program made in 2009
The most beautiful creation of these days, lots of love and respect to the create and also you for show us 😍❤💛💙💚💜🤎🖤🤍
With so many of us missing the UI of XP, I really dont understand why M$ doesnt have it as a full featured theme option.
Because of money. With every GUI update, Microsoft has to check to make sure nothing is broken. If MS then had to check if different themes are working, that takes time. However, what MS does is licence the ability to someone like Stardock to make such GUI changes. Stardock pays MS a bunch of money for the right to retheme/reskin Windows, and MS have said "Sure, no problem, we won't make any official skins for Windows".
@@Locutus i doubt stardocks does they probably just know the stuff that needs to be modified to make chnages but honestly whoever designs the start menus after windows 7 should of been fired
@@dawn1berlitz Sorry, I wasn't clear. Microsoft does all the GUI work, including the designing and coding. However, Microsoft doesn't really want to get into the game of making themes, or similar things.
They would rather someone else pay them money, so that other company can make themes. Stardock pays Microsoft money, for access to all of its GUI APIs, so that Stardock can make customisations.
Microsoft is happy, as they don't have to divert resources to a non revenue area.
Yes, I agree that the Start Menu after Windows 7 was atrocious.
@@Locutusat least not anymore
@@ThatWindowsGuy488 What's not anymore?
I really like it how a lot of people still want to have another version of Windows XP or 7, but of course, Microsoft doesn't listen to it's users (especially nowadays) and we're practically left to do our own modifications in order to make it look like the older versions! As always, awesome video Michael MJD!
Windows XP for the win
Nobody is interested anymore to leave material/flat designs and this sucks
If only they listened and remastered those windows versions, I would definitely use them. Their designs had character.
@@OliveIsTyping And 7
Nobody wants another Windows XP. Windows 7, I can see that, although Windows 11 is, in terms of looks and performance, a very nice upgrade from 10!
I can’t imagine the amount of work, the amount of gutting and transplanting of the different OSes required to make this happen on top of what would appear some extreme registry tweaks as well. Despite some visual glitches it appears really stable.
@marcosmoutta how come? I was thinking about dual booting and use this as my primary and then use my other install as a backup for when things go awry
@@CSX8600 Dual booting in my experience is almost never a good idea. Like the video suggested, install it on a 2nd machine if it suits your fancy. Yes it looks fun but it's not the latest version of 10 and it's not officially supported MS software.
It's based on Windows 10 LTSC 2019 (1809) which has support until 2029
Michael is doing less research (or just plain not utilizing basic reading comprehension) and putting much less effort in his videos lately. You'd think this should have been immediately obvious to someone with as much experience as MJD, which is a bit disappointing
Windows 10 LTSC has support well beyond windows 10 EOL in 2025! You can run it as your daily driver until Microsoft ends support for this build.
thanks
There do I download it ?
only the 1809 LTSC has extended support until 2029, the latest version is only up until 2025 for some reason
I like this type of Windows 10 custom one, I wish this could have the Windows 7 recreation version especially the Aero Transperency
Unfortunately that one is the hardest!
there is the windows classic shell to give windows 10 the windows 7 start menu.
I never learned how to use windows 10, I just use classic shell and my windows mostly feels like windows 7....
windows 10 is horribly unusable without being modded.
@@escapetherace1943Lol same. As soon as Windows 8 started with that whole “start screen” junk, I went “nope, not doing that” and installed Classic Shell. 10+ years later and I still install it on every computer I get.
@@escapetherace1943 use revert8plus and you'll feel like its really windows 7 (even tho some parts are unchanged)
7:49 You need to close all explorer windows before applying differnt themes to change the background color of the sidebar
The Pinball window title bar issue is just a Windows 10 thing, it does the same if you run 3D Pinball / Full Tilt! on non-themed W10, so it's not a theming issue FYI.
it's so cool to see this mod come so far, first just being the creator's personal setup, and now it has its own michael mjd video on it!
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This is pure wizardy to me how it was done and how it looks like. I have never saw someone pay that much attention to detail when it comes to reskins.
wizardry*
have never seen*
@@encycl07pedia- i suppose ya live up to your name
I'm 99% sure i didn't dream this but years ago my dad recovered a windows 7 install with a windows xp recovery dvd and it created a weird hybrid of both, either that or just corrupted it
wait really?? what was it like?
@@superpie64 Im not sure cos it was years ago but I’m trying to recreate it in a vm
There was a Windows XP mode on Windows 7. It was essentially just running Windows XP on Virtual PC, but there was a way to get the windows in the Windows 7 ui.
You are not dreaming. My university's computer in one of it's lab has this. There are 2 versions of windows. 7 and XP. And when you first start the computer it asks in the boot menu if you want to run windows 7 or "older version" which is xp. It runs on software rendering mode. We just play pinball and cs1.6. apparently they installed cs1.6 to check network activity. Those computers were in network lab.
@@dwild92 I don’t think it was that because it looks like a virtual machine you have to actually install
I started out with windows 98 as a child and then xp was the OS I used for the majority of my teenage years before we ended up with vista, weird how nostalgic this is !
imagine a linux distro that looked like windows xp🤔
If I could have something like this but with Vista instead of XP I would die happy.
Vista had it's problems but the design is still beautiful to this day.
Vista Ultimate is still my favorite ❤️
Windows Blinds+Aero Theme+ Old New Explorer+ Classic Start Menu+ Sidebar+ Vista Stock Icons installed with a icon pack software
You get 90% of Vista UI, isnt perfect but its ok for me
Windows 7 is the BEST OS MS Released
i remembered back then when i modded by XP into Vista.. 😂😂😂
yea
I was soo hyped on the style from Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005. It was the same, but it was slightly prettier.
This is some excellent work. I'm working on a project that transforms Windows 7 into Windows 95, but it's just going to be a VM image at best, not a transformation pack or anything of the sort. And my goal is to absolutely ensure that if you want to tell if it's a real 95 installation or not, you will have to dig deep. But I'm nowhere close the faithfulness of this Windows 10/XP thing.
And missed opportunity to show the shutdown dialog if it's the one from XP as well.
The farther we are from XP's launch, the more I wish the old theme came back
Nice that good old Xp felling
Gets your nostalgia kicking
I actually don't care about any of the shell themes, but the Windows 7 control panel and Windows XP fly-out Start Menu. There were more simplistic elements. Every Windows since 8 has felt like I'm working in a phone UI.
Travis and the rest of the peeps did an amazing job with this. Really well done mod.
Damn, that's convincing. After years of completely unconvincing windows XP theme packs for Gnome and KDE, I wasn't expecting that
I remember using Windows XP Pro x64 as my main OS, so that screen saver isn't out of place to me. 😄 I also remember it kept getting recognized as Windows XP Server.
Oh, I had an AMD Athlon 64 X2 "Brisbane" 5000+ @2.6 GHz, if anybody was curious. It was both my first 64-bit and dual core CPU.
didn't expect people to use xp x64, it was rare since vista already came out with most 64 bit cpus, even 32 bit was a better option for software support
@@namesurname4666 WinXP64 came out at least a year before Vista. But yes, it ran like crud. Not ME bad, but pretty bad. The compatibility and transition to 64bit was rocky to say the least.
@@namesurname4666 many people installed xp on a native vista machine, thats how unwanted vista was. Honestly not so different from win 8 or win 11
@@tzuyd I remember a friend of mine bought a 64-bit Windows laptop in 2008 and people, including myself, just asked him why he'd do that. 32-bit was still the default and 64-bit was the future that hadn't fully gotten out of the beta stage yet.
I'm literally impressed by this project! Particularly the Firefox with IE6 theme was WONDERFUL!
There is also an IE8 theme that supports Aero called Aerofox by the co-creator of this, nwin.
@@kirasicecreamm Thanks for the information! Can I have the link please? I couldn't find it
@@Free-ii7ke Can't in YT comments cuz of the auto spam filter, but GitHub: NWinXP/AeroFox. I hope this comment gets through to you, but I'll try fluffing it up more just in case. :D
I really like it! Now Windows 10 has a nice simple and usable UI which takes you straight to the point again! I would have loved to use this as a daily OS
Can you please tell me if you installed it?
@@Ivan-cc9uz I did,but it's not a daily os. There are things that don't work right or don't work at all. This OS was made just for fun,not for daily use
man i do have real good memories using windows xp. glad to see others share that feeling.
XP was the best-looking OS Microsoft ever designed. Modern but not overblown, very clear and easy to navigate and operate. I loved it and I’m predominantly a Mac user.
I'm still puzzled as to why Windows 10's default customization options are so restrictive.
For myself I use OpenShell with the Windows XP style menu and Luna theme start button and I've had people who I shared my screen with appreciate it. But this just takes it on another level. I wish you could just install it on top of whatever Windows 10 version you're running but that's probably not really possible sadly.
Use RetroBar for the taskbar
Search up windows experience freestyle update
To be honest, this recreation is pretty neat! It really captures the look of XP, obviously it's not perfect, but it's cool!
data execution prevention did you make sure it's turned on in your computer?
I just can't handle how depressing windows 10's graphic design is. The entire look of it gets even worse once you Press the windows key and the drawer with junk opens up. For this reason I kept using windows 7 till this month and once I finally installed that abomination I immediately had to modify it too look like win 7. In the end it looks even better.
Nostalgia is a helluva drug. Makes people create stuff like this 😂
Looks really really cool, bring back so many good memories. I'll maybe wait a bit though, to give the team time to correct some of the issues.
For those building a nostalgia XP PC/VM (like me), I recommend the Pale Moon version of Mypal + Moonfox3 theme if you want a modern browser with a 2000s Firefox look _and_ compatibility with classic FF add-ons. :D
I've been waiting for this for years, this is amazing!
1:28 Oh! A short flash of XP-ness in the Win10-y startup sequence!
I've managed to make Windows 11 look like Windows Vista. Has similar issues (although it can also be made to look like NT 4.0, 2000, XP, and maybe even Windows 7), but I'm planning on making it publicly available, once I get all of the pack's contents added.
Hell yeah man, waiting on it
Oh heck yeah
I have done the same with Windows 10
Omg, I'm so impressed by this. It brings me so much joy to know people still care enough about Windows XP to do this.
I am disappointed because this is nothing but rose tinted nostalgia, that praises the worst aspect of windows xp, which was it's default cartoonish look. Windows xp was the ugly duckling of an os. Great OS but it looked so damn hideous. There is a reason why xp modding scene was so huge, with hundreds of good looking alternative themes and replacement icon packs(many of icon containing system .dlls and even explorer.exe were unsigned for this reason).. I mean when even MS made several better themes for xp, you know the default was so ugly.
I grew up playing 3d pinball space cadets on windows XP. Thanks for the nostalgia trip Michael!
Just so you know it's on the Windows store for free!
@@NEEDMORECOW8ELL Not the original Pinball that came with Windows NT 4.0 - XP.
@@ThatRandomToast Space Cadet pinball is on the store. Not familiar with earlier, but I know it was in XP
This is absolutely amazing, it's great to see that people actually make these modded Windows. I'd love to see one modded to look like Vista, I loved the look of that OS. Changed my 7 to look exactly like it, and had it for years up until 2017.
Very good video! Really liked it! Shows what some people are capable of with Windows modifications! Keep up the good work!
I really hope that we get a version that is fully winXp'd so it could be properly viable as a usable OS without many bugs
Would love to see this for windows 11 and kept up to date
Could you do a video about homebrew and pretendo for the Wii U? When you started talking about your videos about customising windows for some reason I remembered the videos on which you showed mods for the Wii. I think a lot of people would be really interested in the things pretendo and what it brings back from the grave (like miiverse) and the servers for online play
God damn that is well made. For some reason I expected another XP mimicking theme full of inaccuracies but this is amazing.
I still genuinely think that WIndows XP looks the most appealing to me. Nostalgia or not, I just love how it looks. And I might really daily drive this (if it's viable for that, ahven't watched the full vid yet)
Now we have Modern XP. I can say Goodbye Ugly flat theme and say hello Windows XP
Would love a Windows 2000 Professional theme for Windows 10. Win2k was my jam for many many years.
SimpleClassicTheme
There is one, its called Project2k
they removed it with win8 because on 7 you can still activate the "classic" windows shell
@@emaneko22 it's still in windows 10 but it's in a slightly buggy state (as it's only kept around for apps that don't use uxtheme and it's only maintained for that purpose)
I've used a VM for Win2k, and it's a delight. It's just so.. snappy and practical.
This Video Just Brought Back A Cascade of Nostalgic memories in Front of my eyes....Life was So Simple Back then.
this is so cool. i would love to see this done for vista
remember a few years back how microsoft release a skin changer program for windows 10 or whatever it was called? it had stuff from all the way back to windows 1 but all it was, was a few backgrounds, sounds and icons? this is what i was hoping that was going to be. a full conversion to the user side of windows that made it look and feel like older versions
It baffles me as to why Microsoft is so adamant about not letting users choose older themes in their newer Windows versions. There's no good reason that we can't just have Aero or Luna or even the 9X themes added to Windows 10 or 11. Why are they so insistent on this new oversimplified UI to the point of discouraging customisation?
exactly !
Man, watching this warms my heart so much. It's a feeling that reminds me of the times I fired up the first version of Mafia, or FIFA 2003, or wrote stupid things on message boards. It's like I'm 13 again. I guess this is what is called nostalgia. It doesn't make sense now to use Windows XP, but I would love to do it.
Holy absolute crap, this is INSANE.
Huge congratulations to this guy. This is beautiful and I so want to find a use case for this.
OMG, I need this for my time traveling. Don't want to be conspicuous at the LAN party.
This is the actual reasons why I decided to stay on Windows 10 rather Moving on Windows 11 or Refuse to update to W11.
I can’t wait to do this to my computer, I’ve been rocking a 4K upscale version of the background
Very cool! I wonder if there are any similar conversions with the win 9x style.
Just saw one a couple days ago, although IIRC it was a linux rice? Not sure.
@@MrTrollMedic Linux has Chicago95 for XFCE.
There actually is one called "Project 2k"
@@Luadewi thanks, I should check it out
This is impressive. I mean, I couldn't tell a difference in the look of the start menu till you did a side by side. Not only themed to look like XP but has all the default junk with it. Very impressive.
I wonder how they created this?? I would love to see a Windows 10 with a classic shell down to the details.
It'd be great if Microsoft just had themes like this available. Like not a complete overhaul but like the ability to make windows 11 look like an older version if only aesthetically
Impressive and nostalgic!
I love how every now and again The Algorithm blesses my feed with a MJD video I haven't seen yet.
Hey, thanks for the video!
I was expecting you to go through the task manager and show us what's actually running in the background. I was wondering if that modification actually gets rid of any of those useless services and background apps. I was also curios to see the ram and cpu usage while browsing.
This is what would probably matter to me the most if i'm installing this modification because most of us hate all that useless garbage running in the background!
Again, thanks for the video!
I remember the dude who made this posting it in a discord, always wanted to see how it actually worked. Very accurate.
Haha, are we all in this comment section? Only person I haven't seen from the community by now is Travis himself. I saw Aubrey, nwin, and now you!
Its a "sleeper" OS.
i work in the it and i get to work with people that aren't that well with computers and change. mostly elderly people too, if this is a near flawless windows xp copy but with the security updates that win 10 provides. i could recommend these people to install this so that they dont have to cope with change as much. Thats my reason for being interested in this stuff , just thought i should share haha
would love to see one for Vista or 7, but I bet that would never happen
I absolutely loved the Vista theme, I changed my 7 to look exactly like Vista, even with the indented start orb. Actually used it up until 2017.
Vista Ultimate is still my favorite ❤️
I loved XP. Grew up playing World Of Goo (on CD-ROM) and Purble Place lol
Reloaded7 exists now, so...
@@enkephalin. yep it eventually happened and I am happy as a clam
I loved flying Strike Fighters: Project One on XP. What a great setup that was. This looks really cool.
Michael dont know if you knew this but the same creator who made this XP "MOD" also made the same version but in a windows 7 style. Its windows 10 but it looks like windows 7 and its really good lmao
no he didnt
@@mlg_killer_hd nah i swear I saw someone do it even have it on a virtual machine my bad then tho thought it was the same dude
got a link to it?
Ojas =/= Travis
Nice vid, I would love to see more Windows modding content in the future
5:43 I've run my windows 7 in 2011 and windows 8.1 in 2014 laptops without ever updating them, for 3 years each.
Never had an issue. They died because of physical issues. Never got a virus or any other malware. Never got hacked because alleged vulnerability.
Muh security updates is actually just pebcak. Older systems are fine.
Michael Mjd, I watched your video 2 months ago on February 20,2023. I like this transformation pack, and thanks to Travis, and thanks for exporting this video.
its actuly based on windows 10 ltsc 2019 (1809) witch gets updates until 2029
This is hands down the most convincing project that I've seen yet! o_O
One of the best UI mods in Windows history :))
February 21, 2023 12:04AM
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@@AnonimoJodas Sir, I don't know what you mean by that.
February 21, 2023 0912 hours local time
mans exposing his weird timezone 💀
microsoft should just release the ability to theme your computer based on old windows versions
ngl windows modders are insane lmao
Like I could probably show this to someone who actually has used Windows 10 and XP before (and are well familiarised with it), and let them use it for an hour and they could probably think it is windows XP
It's really easy to tell by the file explorer. It doesn't work like the XP one at all, the options on the left don't work at all, clicking anything just brings you back to "my computer"
@@aKuBiKu Shhhh I'm working on a C# recreation of the XP sidebar that's fully functional. It should be in the next release of Windows eXPerience ;3
@@kirasicecreamm holy balls that's awesome
@UC_OjTTKYKbR54MmP_6r14tA Yeah it's really cool already. I already have the injection working and it looks identical, so I just need to work on shell integration and then polish it. I wish I could post screenshots in RUclips comments haha
Reminds me of my first laptop. It had Windows XP on it, but I changed settings and replaced resources to make it look like Windows 95.
I actually use this on my laptop for work and school. Its really nice to have something that is Windows 10 but I know basically EXACTLY where everything is!
Does it work well enough to use it daily? I’m really considering installing this on my laptop for school because I love the look and few of windows xp
How well does it run on your laptop and what's the specs as I would love to set this up and running for college. ^^
Its just a cheap-ish 8th gen core i3 Asus netbook I got in 2018 or something. The thing is about it though, Its running on a semi outdated version of Windows 10, so it doesn't have all of the latest security updates, and it runs entirely on an Administrator account which means you run just about everything as administrator, giving anything access to changing things on your computer, but a good antivirus helps against this. Also setting up your own user account breaks the operating system from what I've been told as well.
@@MiniGramV That's slightly annoying about the user accounts. Does it run the same as normal when it comes to installing applications or is it locked down?
@@MiniGramV hmmm i think I’ll have to give it a shot myself then. It seems very promising though
Amazing work of love on a passion project! Thank you for the tour.
cmd.exe seems to be the actual xp version of cmd, which explains the version number (cmd.exe reports the windows version on its own and doesn't actually check it against any centralized APIs)
Windows XP was my childhood! so cool to see it being brought back like this
I'm making a sleeper and I can't wait to do this, I've been waiting for something like this for a long time but the browser is really the thing that impressed me the most, but now we need a RUclips client that looks like oldschool RUclips
Imagine this plus AME(Ameliorated)... could easily convince older people and run on crappy hardware no problem. Absolute looker! What I wonder though is, what is the "bill of materials"? I might not want the full thing, but would love to know about the individual components. Like just getting the Luna theme would be pretty awesome ^^
Been waiting for a version like this
I'm watching this because I heard about it on a Twitter thread quite recently and wanted to know a combination of 1) how usable it is as a main OS and 2) how relatively safe it is to install, since I don't trust other ISOs.
Either way, might use it in QEMU in the future
Edit: 1809 is honestly...mildly acceptable for KVM + QEMU but not if I'm running it with no virtualization, so rip
It's Windows X....
P.
Stardock and alternative theme utilities had XP themes too, and you would think ClassicShell or the updated Openshell might have an XP skin in future. Winaero has the Win 7 games,classic calculator, paint, notes and widgets, probably the closest tools to XP for matching the theme
This looks familiar……
dont look at the mirror
Throwback to when we all used the same TinyXP ISO, with the GWH28 product key, and absolutely no idea where it came from or what was in it.
Wonder how much of my life might be leaked somewhere because of that...
Where is ISO download?
10:52 He won't give links
windows-experience-freestyle
@@hellomine2849that's kinda stupid ngl
Windows XP x64 was actually on the Server 2003 Kernel. So that is correct for the throwback! Still pretty damn cool none the less!
And to think I desperately made my XP look like Vista with an aero shell. And here we are now making 10 like XP 🙃, I love it!
I honestly want this. I would love windows 98/95 even more though.
I might be tempted to run this as my daily driver. I just miss the old look so much. Imagine having a start menu without a bunch of crap in it. Or having one control panel which does everything
Oh wow I low key wanna install this on my fun & games pc and actually use a 4:3 lcd monitor with it and some blue-gray early 2000's logitech keyboard and mouse combo. The idea of a sleeper build just got very alluring.
My grandpa is a college prof. and has been using his XP laptop for 13 years for work. The laptop unfortunately was unable to boot anymore just a couple of months ago so we had to buy a new one for him. It comes preinstalled with Win10 and he does struggle sometimes with it. This will be the perfect replacement for it.
This looks really cool. I would have loved for the XP era UI to be maintained and updated rather than changing it every few years and having to relearn everything again.
This reminds me to the fact I always used the basic theme on XP and 7 to make my PC look like Windows 98. lol
In my opinion, Windows 7 had the best aesthetics out of any Operating System I’ve ever used. I even have a devoted Win7 machine, but I’ve isolated it from any networks due to its security vulnerabilities.