@@ThatRandomToast I've tried it a few times. It's the best out there for sure, but just not close enough to the real look for me. If MS could pull it off I bet a ton of old school users would buy it.
@@Tom2404 My school doesn't care about anything that happens on the PCs. Almost every PC only has an admin account with no password and you can bet your ass it's filled with pirated games.
Fun fact: according to Windows expert Paul Thurrott, the virtual desktop capability was actually a feature of Windows XP. The os had native virtual desktop capabilities. For whatever microsoft never got around to making a front end UI for creating and managing virtual desktop. This power toy actually powered by that very Windows XP’s native virtual desktop capability. Thurrott believes that Windows 10’s virtual desktop was simply microsoft “completing” the feature they started way back in Windows XP development. They finally made a UI to take advantage of it in Windows 10. The more you know...
You missed one of the powertoys! There was a powertoy for Windows XP that was essentially a wallpaper changer, it was called the Windows XP Winter Fun Pack, or something like that.
Winter fun pack was on beginning of XP I think 2002 it was animation power toy with wallpapers screensavers Christmas card makers and stuff like that as I remember ☺
I still use SyncToy to this day. Simple and lightweight way to sync game saves into cloud storage like OneDrive or Dropbox when games have a hard coded save directory, or cloning folders across drives for backups. It can even be automated through scheduled tasks.
Awesome! After hereing about it from your channel, I installed Power Toys for Windows 10. There's some neat things in there; some very useful, like markdown previews in File Explorer.
6:42 Windows Longhorn Build 3683 has a sidebar and one of the tiles was a desktop manager with a limit of only 4 virtual desktops So Windows 10 is not the first Windows OS to have virtual desktops, technically Edit: But since this was a scrapped feature that didn’t make it to Windows Vista, Windows 10 is the 1st Windows OS to have it without being scrapped, also I meant Windows OS, not OS
I don't remember if it was Winternals or Microsoft but seem to recall you could get a tool for virtual desktops back in Windows NT 4. Virtual desktops was an NT4 thing but Microsoft themselves never made use of it in the OS directly until Windows 10, though powertoys etc exposed it now and then.
I find it really interesting that MS hadmadea virtual desktop tool back then. I'm also curious to know who invented/pioneered virtual desktops, I had an old macbook with that feature and remember wishing MS would add it. I feel maybe it started on some linux distro but really don't know.
sometimes when working with css's calc(100% - 15px) for example magnifier in taskbar would help a lot too see pixel precision sizing while tweaking with dev tools!
"...Because I'm not using an LCD" All screens are affected by this. CRTs typically use RGB and most modern LED displays are RGB as well. LCDs could have them switched around.
I have mixed feelings about these tools. On the one hand it they are pretty cool tools, on the other it would have been awesome for them to be integrated into XP as part of the add/remove Windows components page, but maybe not installed by default. Especially tweakUI.
Tweek UI is one of the first programs i install on a fresh installation of WinXP. I think i will try the task switcher to see if it works in the classic theme. I don't like the luna theme. There are better folder sync programs than the one featured in the video. Free file sync is one, which i use.
Any chance to get my hands on the slideshow you have created? As a web developer, I am highly curious about what code this powertoy generates, yet I don't feel like installing Windows XP just for this occasion 😁
I know it's not the same thing, but I use folder symlinks to accomplish a similar effect as "Synchronize." The only issue is that most removable storage is FAT32 and FAT32 doesn't support symlinks.
There are versions of XP that don't have the slideshow option when inserting a CD. This PowerToy enables it globally regardless of XP edition. Vista and onward have this by default.
I only ever really used the RAW umage thimbnail viewer for explorer. In conjunction with MS Orca (MSI installer editor, part of SDK) and Resource Hacker it was part of my game mod toolkit.
The last one you showed i seem to remember there was something to do with firewall protection involved you have to set your firewall to custom or similar settings and it should work but that was XP back then it was easy to get settings right but there were some heavy bugs even with that old O S loved power toys and its definitely really returning to window's might fix some common problem's just think XP+Power Toys works hope it does work on 1O Home and one thing in 10 with search and will Power Toys have the ability to move that around the taskbar as I find it annoying been near the star menu it is fixed to one place it would be clever to change the place or move it to the screen or somewhere else? I know you can turn it off but it like Cortana which is now an app which should apply to search to? That is where power toys comes in?
3D Windows XP is technically a powertoy without the label tablet pc edition has more and better useful powertoys than xp or mce, for those tpce that crash, the solution is that the program can't locate it's 1.5 assembly instead of 1.7, this corresponds to different tabletpc sdks. fun fact: you can force the installation of media center, dotnet 1.0, and tablet pc. through, you have to copy the correct inf file to %systemroot%\inf for the actual install to work properly, mce for some reason had a mistake with the version, sp3 reverted it to rtm or something. and, best with English, don't forget to install net framework before flipping the edition installed switch since they blocked 1.0 via program compatibility because they couldn't guarantee non-issue with language dependant versions, windows update works just fine, it's inclusive
I think Microsoft will turn some powertoys into real implement features or softwares if they were really useful,the powertoys calculator were finally turns into Microsoft Maths and I used them when I was in school
I installed these on my Samsung SENS-A10. That thing runs XP like a snail, with only 256MB of RAM. I swear it was made for Windows 98, but they just stuck a "Designed for Microsoft Windows XP" sticker on it and sold it with XP.
During this time Microsoft was selling antivirus software lol. And the settings in windows are still scattered all over the place, it's the biggest issue I have with windows currently. Although it does make you feel like a pro hacker when you get it down.
6/6/2020 Funfact: Downloading in the 2001 website is just 1 setup and boom all programs install. However, i assume the 2008 one has multiple setup files.
