Window Blinds? Turning 11 into XP


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Has anyone tried/used Window Blinds? I'm curious. Presumably even if it looks like XP and has a different start menu, the right click menus and settings would be standard Windows 11 ones?

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Transform Windows 11 into Windows XP with WindowBlinds 11

Stardock Software's latest beta of WindowBlinds 11 allows you to customize the look and feel of Windows, even to make it look like Windows XP.
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Hazel123 said:
Has anyone tried/used Window Blinds? I'm curious. Presumably even if it looks like XP and has a different start menu, the right click menus and settings would be standard Windows 11 ones?
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Been using WindowBlinds for some time, (on W10). I tried the first beta on W11, it didn't behave properly! I hear they're still having issues.
 

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I used it a lot in the Windows 8.1 days, but stopped sometime in Windows 10... as Edwin said, they had some issues with the first few betas for Windows 11, but no idea if/when they fixed any of that.
 

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I called and asked. They said they didn't need my $20. I said OK and hung up. :D

Seriously... I figured anything they could do, I could also do, in the Registry.
 

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Ghot said:
I called and asked. They said they didn't need my $20. I said OK and hung up. :D

Seriously... I figured anything they could do, I could also do, in the Registry.
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True but surely it'd take a while for them to develop their software and find such registries?
 

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James said:
True but surely it'd take a while for them to develop their software and find such registries?
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True. But I can out-wait them... easily. :-)



I bought me some of this, instead...
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Yup! I tried the latest WB beta! It's definitely dickered, on the latest Insider Build, anyway! (n)

However, if you try it, it's highly recommended to use the Purge WindowBlinds Toolkit to remove it properly from your system!
 

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Good tip - thanks. Definitely not to be touched with a bargepole then!
 

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Hazel123 said:
Good tip - thanks. Definitely not to be touched with a bargepole then!
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Definitely!
I didn't even investigate it, I was so frustrated with it, I purged it from my system within 20 minutes! 🤷‍♂️
 

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Works amazing on Windows 10 though! :D (y)

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Oh..., once again, my apologies for showing off my 'gaudy' Windows UI !!! 1675781612269.gif
 

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I would just like it to turn the Windows 11 start menu into the Windows 10 one! Not into XP at all.
 

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Hazel123 said:
I would just like it to turn the Windows 11 start menu into the Windows 10 one! Not into XP at all.
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Yeah, that's gonna take Start11 or OpenShell or some similar 3rd party app.
 

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