hi guys we have got a lot of requests so I decided to make a follow up video for this ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rGi3p2TyyRw.html (video uploaded on 22 Feb 2024) Current ideas that will be included in follow up: -Windows Vista to Windows 11 (Colour Scheme) -Windows 8 with classic theme -Windows NT line (NT 3.1 to 2000) -Windows 2.0 to 3.0 (retry) -Windows 1.0 to 3.0 -High Contrast theme (Windows 7 to Windows 11) You can add your ideas in the reply and I will look at them
If you set Window Background to 000000 and Window Text to a bright color then it will be a real dark theme, and it will further show how worthless and uncustomizable the 'dark mode' in Windows 10 really is. Window Background and Window Text are the two most important colors of a system theme, for instance they are used for the displayed text in Notepad
The loss of win98-win7’s highly customizable classic UI is a huge contributing factor as to why Windows lost me. I didn’t _hate_ 8/8.1 but that loss was devastating. However, I *really* hate Windows 10 for not only further reducing customizability below what Windows 8 offered but also reducing privacy to almost nothing and adding bloatware and ads to even clean installs of Windows. Testing out 11 on a throwaway laptop was enough to show me that customization was falling to iOS/Android levels, and it too had bloatware and ads (such as the Lock Screen’s bing comments). So I’ve already put Linux on all my remaining non-Mac laptops and am about to put Linux on my main gaming PC. My only issue theming wise is that I want Windows 98’s full theming kit back but Linux’s XFCE Chicago95 mod only has Windows 95’s more limited color theme support. It’s left me kinda tempted to just pivot to NsCDE since it more closely captures the feel of Windows 98’s customizability with a faithful re-creation of the CDE interface that harkens back to classic Unix operating systems
To be honest the most customizable are tiling window managers, but you must mess up with config files. On more traditional desktop environment side the most customizable is without a doubt KDE. It's only issue is it heavyness
I've also jumped aboard the Linux train in recent years. I daily'd Windows without mods up until around Windows 10 as it was a significant downgrade. Many of the third party themes were never ported over due to Windows 10's constant changing at the time.I also used stripped down versions but At some point, since I've been dabbling with Linux since High school, I made the transition over and honestly, Giving it some time and learning the new layouts of everything it's been worth it. Even Plasma has a million more customization opportunities VS Windows. I prefer a more modern look, but I do think the retro aesthetic of the DE you mentioned looks just plain cool! I may play with that someday!
Couldn't have said it better myself. I hate that Windows keeps gutting customization...Windows Vista/7 was the pinnacle of customization. Windows 10 started the whole forced options with no way to adjust it through normal means.
My father still has his custom Windows 2000 theme called Roadrunner! The theme contains sprites and sounds from videogames like Duke Nukem 3D and Shattered Steel.
You could've restored your 1.0 theme in 2.0 by copying the theme settings in the win.old file (which is a backup of your win.ini from Windows 1.0) and pasting into the new win.ini file. Also, if you actually set a custom theme in 2.0 instead of leaving it as the default one, it would've transferred it to 3.0 automatically.
sure ,I will try Windows 2.0 to 3.0 again in the followup of this video Windows 1.0 to 2.0 was done by manually copying, so I wouldn't count that as a "migrated in upgrade"
I hate that Microsoft just removed the feature in Windows 10-11 to still use the old 95/98 Window Design and to force their users with boring „designs“ which can‘t be customized that much
The Theme setting was kept while upgrading to XP,but it changed to Windows XP Theme After first login. I think you should do save themes while upgrading as well.
Im Windows 10, there is still the classic theme, it is just well hidden. It can be customised using an aplet contained in file deskn.cpl, probably extracted from some old Windows, and after upgrade from Win7, you may find you custom theme there.
ive noticed you said that win 11 doesnt support the colors for the theme, but from 10 to 11 should work because of the accent color and settings transferring over, so if you enable show color on taskbar or on title bar then that should carry over along with the color and theme
Anything under the NT kernel should migrate no problem you just need to know how to work the regedit well. Winereo tweaker does most of the work for you but in reality everything traces back to Windows NT back in 1993. In theory though ive never tested it myself under the right settings should keep it up until at least windows 10 because i saw a michael MJD video on how he used Regedit to make windows 10 a vista clone.
Humm... You may have to do some modifications(place an 'ei.cfg' with some magic text in the 'sources' folder) on Windows 8 installation media to enable upgrade option. But the original color schemes from Windows 3.0 will still be drop since Windows has dropped the classic theme from Windows 8(not entirely, can be force enabled by doing something with DWM and you will suffer from tons of rendering glitches), but the Aero theme from Windows Vista will be preserved.
i know you definitely can upgrade and skip 2.x versions and just go straight from 1.x to 3.x, unsure if themes are kept but files and programs definitely are edit: in windows 7, try right-clicking the theme in the personalization control panel, and hitting "save for sharing" then migrating that file over to 8.x and it SHOULD work (provided windows 8.x even has classic theme, which i'm not entirely sure of)
Windows 8 and later doesn't have a classic theme but has high contrast theme which works the same so hopefully it will recognise the theme as high contrast and it will migrate. And it should upgrade the normal way, idk why it just did a clean install
I know for a fact that theme is saved between Windows 7, 10 and 11 as it was my PC upgrade path - had Windows 7 machine, upgraded it to 10 in 2015 and to 11 in 2021. ofc I had to change hardware as well but I didn't change the install
Tbh windows 8 to 11 do carry your personal settings but you need to be registered user and such information is stored in the cloud. It even saves the wallpaper.
@@Chan4444mc I've updated windows since 8 to 11; after each update it automatically picked up my last used settings. What's crazier is that whenever i logged on someone else computer with windows with my data it still downloaded my preferences and loaded it there.
I also saved a aero theme on windows 7, but I forgot to put that clip the video. the real reason why it didn't migrate is because it performed a clean install
I've upgraded from Windows 7 straight to Windows 10 and also to Windows 11 and both times my themes were migrated from Windows 7, even my custom desktop wallpaper from Windows 7 did. So just try to skip Windows 8\8.1
I didn't include when making the video because it only have a colour palette and light/dark mode. But due to a lot of requests ,I will include it in the followup video
@@ignacyk3203 yea so I upgrade from Windows 10 64 bit Edition with the same theme , it can check does the colour migrate of course I don't install it on the same vm that I upgraded from windows 1.0 , actually it isn't even the same vm thoughout the whole video , I used another vm after Vista because upgrading too much is causing more and more errors and the windows 7 installation failed , so I installed another Vista and created the same theme on it video editing will solve this problem
Windows 1.01 (IMG) archive.org/compress/windows-1.01-1985/formats=ISO%20IMAGE&file=/windows-1.01-1985.zip Windows 2.03 (zip) archive.org/download/microsoft-windows-2.03-3.5/Microsoft%20Windows%202.03%20%283.5%29.zip Windows 3.0 winworldpc.com/download/4ac38344-36c2-b254-11c3-a4c2ac5a5404 Windows 3.11 winworldpc.com/download/20c3b6c3-a26c-e280-b90d-11c3a4c2ac5a Windows 95 winworldpc.com/download/07c3a63e-c2b4-6e04-11c3-a6e280947e52 Windows 98 Second Edition winworldpc.com/download/417d71c2-ae18-c39a-11c3-a4e284a2c3a5 Windows Me winworldpc.com/download/e280941a-58c5-a0e2-809c-c38311c3a4ef Windows 2000 Professional SP4 archive.org/download/enwin2000prosp4_202001/EN_WIN2000_PRO_SP4.ISO Windows XP Professional SP3 archive.org/download/WinXPProSP3x86/en_windows_xp_professional_with_service_pack_3_x86_cd_vl_x14-73974.iso Windows Vista Ultimate SP2 archive.org/download/en_windows_vista_ultimate_sp2_x86_dvd/en_windows_vista_ultimate_sp2_x86_dvd.iso Windows 7 Ultimate RTM archive.org/download/en_windows_7_ultimate_x86_dvd_x15-65921_201902/en_windows_7_ultimate_x86_dvd_x15-65921.iso (I upgraded to SP1 using a setup file but link lost) Windows 8 Professional archive.org/download/Windows8Prox86VL/en_windows_8_pro_vl_x86_dvd_917830.iso Windows 8.1 Professional (The iso is Home/Pro both edition) archive.org/download/win-8.1/Win8.1_EnglishUS_x32.iso Windows 10 can be downloaded from Microsoft website www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows10 But here is the internet archive link archive.org/download/windows-10-1507-home-and-pro/Win10_EnglishUS_x32.iso
I didn't include in the video because Windows 11 only has colour palette and light/dark theme , but I will include it in followup of this video and I don't use Windows 11, my host pc runs Windows 10 :)
Windows me has the internal version of 4.9 and windows 2000 is 5.0, therefore I can only upgrade from Windows me to windows 2000, but not windows 2000 to windows me
yes,I skipped it when making the video because it only has a colour palette and a light/dark mode. But I will include it in the followup of this video because many requests
