It's been ten years since Windows 8 came out, and we still haven't gotten over Windows 7. That really shows how perfect the OS was. Every Windows since 7 should've gotten the message "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".
Windows 7 was mainly a desktop productivity OS. With Windows 8, Microsoft went to the complete other extreme, of making a fully tablet oriented, content consumption OS, as they believed that was the way forward. Windows 10 and 11 are both still suffering from the bad effects of this. Microsoft is going the Apple route, of assuming the users are idiots, and shouldn't be allowed to do anything that could potentially cause problems. I think, that if it wasn't for the culture of rampant lawsuits they have in the USA, Microsoft would be more inclined to let users have full control over their systems. But they are an American company, and they know that crazy Americans might sue them if anything happens, even if it was their own fault. Then there's the whole idea of creating a more closed ecosystem, where Microsoft can try to force their own "software as a service" approach to people, in the hopes of making money by subscriptions instead of purchases. That approach creates a much more stable revenue stream than when users simply purchase a license as a one-time thing. This is a trend that isn't likely to get better any time soon.
Windows 7 Released : "Oh I miss XP" Windows 8 and 8.1 Released : "Miss 7 so much" Windows 10 Released :" Miss 7 so much" Windows 11 Released : "10 is enough" Windows Vista : "No one care about me?" Windows 98 to Vista : "Who are you?"
There's one major gripe that prevents me from jumping to 10 even with all these tweaks. When you pin files to a program's jumplist, you can't sort them via drag and drop. Try pinning text files to Notepad (pinned on taskbar) and then sorting the pinned files. Easy peasy on 7. Impossible on 10. We need a taskbar replacement too!
I actually used your last video on Windows 11 and how to get that looking and working like it's supposed to, and I've loved using those tweaks. It's vastly superior to the barebones approach the OS currently has. I just don't understand why they thought it was a good idea to have all these convenient features in Windows 10 (and earlier) but then remove most all of it in Windows 11. The start menu in 11 is horrible. Explorer is stripped down, and the taskbar is missing loads of features, namely drag and dropping a file from an explorer window onto a program, which I do literally all the time. What were they thinking?!?!
What I'm looking for is the old Win7 folder skin where you could see all the content inside. Now With win11 only can see half images inside the folder icon.
Winaero utility is very useful for customizing things, like title bar height, taskbar thumbnail size, border width, and many many more. Even you can export the settings and do it again after a reinstall.
You're also able to get back the old volume and network control. Something that bothered me a long time. Especially since the new volume control without 3rd party like Ear Trumpet is a massive downgrade
I will keep all my PCs on Windows 7 until the day that all programs no longer support it. Thank you for showing us how we may fix some of their disgrace when that day comes.
@@quintit And then 2 months after that Steam announced End of Life in 2024 because like everything now, their client is based on Chromium. Genuinely did not expect that. No updated Steam client means no playing with my friends. So I tried out *Linux* _Never going back._ Valve has helped so much with funding the eradication of issues with playing Windows games on Linux for their Steam Deck in the last 5 years that there's almost no tweaks that need to be made anymore. And Linux has almost everything you could want for any technical work with filesystems, different file types, etc. that Windows always required obscure third party software for. The majority of Windows programs besides games can also run on Linux, minus a few art programs, which you can run in a VM, which are very good on Linux. Linux is the way forward. Join me.
I am with you on that. I could work with Windows7, Windows10 and Windows11 literally drive me nuts while using it. Why? I don't even fully know but here some reasons: - The nag-messages when you do something that MS does not like (like installing Firefox and setting it as the default browser, or setting mpc-hc as the default video-player) - The push/forced online account to use Windows at all - I think it looks rather ugly, aesthetically speaking, among which that weird new (since W10) settings panel which looks like they made it for a phone instead of a PC. Also, what is up with it being monochrome?? I also don't like how the color of the up-bar of the Window changes based on whether it is focused or not, the idea is good but it looks ugly. - I hate it that the file-manager hides the extensions and does not fully respect the user his sorting-preference (still putting the recent files on top, no matter how you sort) - I hate it that the window-manager of Windows now opens every program in a tiny window instead of just using the entire resolution of the monitor. If I want to snap a window then I will just do it while using hotkeys (Windows-number), I really want programs to be fullscreen or halfscreen most of the time, not in a weird tiny window - The high CPU- and RAM-usage. Yes, I don't mind RAM which I have getting used, fine. I do mind it being so high without being doing useful things, just for the system. It is more a principle thing, I have 32 GB. - The suggestive dialoge-'options' with Windows very much pushing which answer you 'should' give. I could probably rant a bit longer but I think that this will do. :p
I still use Windows 7. I'm debating do i jump to Linux after Win7... We'll see. So many programs and drivers are still connected to Windows. Regarding Open Shell / Classic Shell, it's quite amazing! I've been playing with it this year, and it's amazing how much one can customize it. That's why i love it so, i really customizing stuff. I suppose that's why i like Coreldraw, PDF-XChange Editor etc. so much. I rock the Classic style of Classic Shell.
Sounds a lot like what I had to do with Windows 8.1 when I finally made the jump over to that OS. Between the annoying permissions and "Metro" set up Microsoft has, I genuinely hated the way things were working, but after making various tweaks much like were shown in this video, I've had no real issues with 8. As things are starting to lag behind further and further on this aging OS, I'm considering jumping to 10 or 11, but I need to make certain I can make the same changes as I did years ago to 8. Great video. I love Classic Shell and the overall flexibility of options for how you can set up your start menu.
For the sound i just right click the speaker icon and click sounds. Also i use open shell already but thanks for this video was interesting to see what else can do to it
Privately, on my desktop-PC, I only use Linux these days, including gaming. I was kind of fine with Windows7 but then Windows10 was so horrible for me that I just dumped Windows, to a large extend because I had no SSD back then and W10 without a SSD was pretty much unusable. Also something went wrong and MS could not downgrade it to W7. When the support of W7 ended I quit using Windows. On my desktop-PC (right now) I use Arch (which Valve uses for its SteamDeck) and dwm, a minimalist but fully featured and flexible tiling window manager. I love it, I am willing to sacrifice that one game which I played and which is not supported yet on Linux, whatever. Currently I am playing Hollow Knight, Cuphead and StarCraft2, I am fine with gaming. But I do have Windows (11) on my laptop because not always I can decide which software I use, so I know all about the pain which Windows-users go through. Recently somehow Microsoft failed at installing a driver for my laptop because it could not install one of its own libraries, impressive. I had the BSOD's because the OEM and MS together made a mess of certain drivers...
Open Shell worked just fine on Windows 11 when this video came out by the way, so not sure why it was stated that people needed to use a program that cost money instead? Otherwise, great video. Thank you.
One thing I liked about Windows 7 is I didn't really have to change many settings. Whereas with 10 and 11, it is a ton of settings I have dig through to tweak. Makes setting up a new computer a real pain. Not sure if they let you save your settings to a file that you can just transfer over or something when setting up a 2nd computer.
Been watching on and off since 2014 and have always liked the way you go about creating videos, content pieces like this why I keep coming back and I know its a longshot but I really hope this channel regains the big viewership it once had.
Always love watching your stuff logan, ever since back in the tigerdirect days through to now. keep it coming man, hope you're doing well on your side of the world.
I'm really surprised that you didn't do that registry tweak to bring back the old Windows 7 sound menu. The Windows 7 sound icon code is still a part of Windows 10. Since you were trying to mimic Windows 7, it's a bit weird that you chose eartrumpet over that.
Hey Logan, real huge fan. Been watching your stuff ever since 2014, give or take. Regardless of my degree (BSEE), content from creators like you have made me incredibly much more tech savvy throughout the workplace and have allowed me to succeed in the engineering industry (primarily CAD, 3D modeling, etc.). Thank you so much for that, additionally , your whokeys discount code allowed me to purchase office professional for my overtime work at home as well :). That being said, we’re dealing with a scenario, where we had a colleague get laid off since he primarily got so frustrated with his tasks and efforts, he would essentially click everywhere on his computer and ruin every setting in both CAD and windows. I’ve done everything on my end short of a complete clean install of windows, I was able to salvage the default CAD settings, but he even upgraded to windows 11 despite me warning him not to do so. So the computer is a 8700k/RTX 2070, running at the speed of a pentium (Dell OEM to make matters worse….) What can be done to completely restore that copy of windows without resulting to a format + clean install of windows? I’ve told my boss that a clean install of windows is the best way to approach this at this point in the pc’s lifecycle, but it’s understandably not ideal or efficient to do just that. Any ideas on how to get this computer back in shape?
Man, it is getting to be a pain in the ass to setup a new windows install now! I remember just disabling the "customized view" in xp that hid apps and system tray icons, and doing a few other small tweaks... Now it's a Huuuugee process! Awesome video though, all those are very helpful. Especially the start menu, file explorer, and audio trumpet app. But that means I'll have to buy a windows key... Haha. I've been casually using Linux mint and like it, but after a few years I'm still not as fluid as with windows. I had to manually install a wifi driver and I did it, but it wasn't as fluid as with all the windows tricks I had learned over the years.
you can also just click SOUNDS in windows 10 which is WAY FASTER, instead of in trumpet and take 1 more menu, but trumpet is def better. Dont get me wrong im a win7 worshipper. But you clearly havent even tried to get into windows 10. that view button is easily opened in windows 10, RIGHT CLICK within the map (no need to move mouse) open view and there you go (which is faster than moving ur mouse to top ALL the time). There is many more things you deny that already are functional within windows 10, and ofcourse fast to reach.
Thank you a lot for this video ! I just installed windows 10. I tried to understand et get used to its start menu : I just hate it ! I chose Stardock Start 11 (trial) at first but I was not convinced. Then, I switched to Open-Shell : PERFECT ! I just love the skin "immersive" ! And I really appreciate the customization feature ! I breath again ! Thank you again !
I wanted to get this stuff set up for my computer, but I was warned about how setting up stuff like this on your computer posed the potential risk for problems with booting. From what I understand, It's more prevalent when adding windows 7 aeroglass to the desktop, but with these things in particular, is there anything of concern?
I love the modern look of Windows 11 and 10 i loved windows 7 but i moved on We can't keep living in past But Ear trumpet is great you can get from windows market place
another cool program for windows XP is inEXperience , if you want to make a Retro XP build with older GPUs and older drivers you can get a ton of windows 95 and 98 games working . with In Experience you can make windows XP look indentical to windows 95, 98 ,2000 except for the launch screen which stays windows Xp but everything else will take you back to the 90s
I run Classic Shell on all my computers and just have all my programs sorted in program groups per type. Never understood why you have a graphical UI and then they expect you to start searching for a program by typing text in the search bar ... like DOS or Linux terminal window ... why? What's the point? Just a couple of clicks in my program tree structure is way faster than having to type all the time
Man 7 was easy to activate it was the last version to include simplicity, style, AND NO WEB SEARCH AND TELEMETRY I miss those days I used windows 8.1 to it’s final days after 7 ended support but now it’s all over
the windows 7 is so smooth compare to windows 8 and 10 or 11. i don't know why but the recent ones suck so bad. Is there anyway we can develop an interface and smooth running software.. because a gaming computer still can't hold on windows 10 at all.
I wish you did a video about how to make Windows 10 look like Windows 7 in terms of window decorations and that glass look, because Windows 10 has a really sucky minimalistic design that sucks in a big way.
Because he tried to steal work and money from the co-owner and lost the news channel as a resulting settlement. He took advantage of a ton of people and in order to try to hide it shut down the websites and channel. He doesn't do news anymore because he got caught red handed being an awful person.
IT's traumatic trying to comprehend beyond windows 7 for older people. I'm 79, used Windows 7 forever. I cannot do ANYTHING in Windows 10 or 11. They stink and are not User Friendly!!!! I'm physically sick from trying and would pay double for Windows 7 to be useable. And I've even tried an IMAC and it's just as sickening.
Windows 11 settings are much better than 10. They are not 7 but that is ok as they do the same functionality for 85% of things. Sound mixer will be fixed next year
Ohh this pretty dope, I’ve use the icons one to change it to my liking but the other are something I can use for the family since their use to using windows 10 and 7
Human nature is so tedious. I imagine hearing the people with horse and wagons complaining about this new thing called an automobile. That will never work, they said. They’ll need fuel stations all over! Then they died. And the next generation embraced the automobile.
Thank You, I tried some of the software it does work with Win11, Open Shell, which is better than nothing. OldExplorer not so much. Thanks for posting the OEM links. I have to agree I like going to the root, Im a win 7 person myself, but Ms screw me on my legit version of Win7 by saying that the authentication system is no longer active.
@@teksyndicate Ah, didn't expect you to respond! Most of it is just using the old registry keys as default. Personally I haven't had an issue but each to their own!
Still have my Win 7 Ultimate disc and cd key ….. I wish Win 11 was mostly like that 🥰🥰🫠🫠👍. Win 7 was the. It’s like Win O/S EVER! I can see why 🤤🤤. I do wish MS would only change icons when there’s a valid reason too ….. the Win 11 skin is blah imo …. 10 is better by comparison, but still Win 7 😇👍😉
You can hide it with startallback. Made by the dev of oldnewexplorer. It reenables the windows 10 taskbar for 11 along with having 7 style explorer and start menu.
It's been ten years since Windows 8 came out, and we still haven't gotten over Windows 7. That really shows how perfect the OS was. Every Windows since 7 should've gotten the message "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".
Man I miss windows Xp/vista/7 all good OSes mainly 7
this 100%
Windows 7 was mainly a desktop productivity OS. With Windows 8, Microsoft went to the complete other extreme, of making a fully tablet oriented, content consumption OS, as they believed that was the way forward. Windows 10 and 11 are both still suffering from the bad effects of this. Microsoft is going the Apple route, of assuming the users are idiots, and shouldn't be allowed to do anything that could potentially cause problems. I think, that if it wasn't for the culture of rampant lawsuits they have in the USA, Microsoft would be more inclined to let users have full control over their systems. But they are an American company, and they know that crazy Americans might sue them if anything happens, even if it was their own fault. Then there's the whole idea of creating a more closed ecosystem, where Microsoft can try to force their own "software as a service" approach to people, in the hopes of making money by subscriptions instead of purchases. That approach creates a much more stable revenue stream than when users simply purchase a license as a one-time thing.
This is a trend that isn't likely to get better any time soon.
I was still using Win7 up until a few months ago when they finally started dropping browser support for it.
Here's the thing: M$ wants it 'broke'
They want control over your computer
Got to love that classic loud audio crackling when UAC pops up.
Windows 7 Released : "Oh I miss XP"
Windows 8 and 8.1 Released : "Miss 7 so much"
Windows 10 Released :" Miss 7 so much"
Windows 11 Released : "10 is enough"
Windows Vista : "No one care about me?"
Windows 98 to Vista : "Who are you?"
Yeah I know. Windows 11 was so bad it made us appreciate Windows 10.
😂😂😂
There's one major gripe that prevents me from jumping to 10 even with all these tweaks. When you pin files to a program's jumplist, you can't sort them via drag and drop. Try pinning text files to Notepad (pinned on taskbar) and then sorting the pinned files. Easy peasy on 7. Impossible on 10. We need a taskbar replacement too!
I actually used your last video on Windows 11 and how to get that looking and working like it's supposed to, and I've loved using those tweaks. It's vastly superior to the barebones approach the OS currently has. I just don't understand why they thought it was a good idea to have all these convenient features in Windows 10 (and earlier) but then remove most all of it in Windows 11. The start menu in 11 is horrible. Explorer is stripped down, and the taskbar is missing loads of features, namely drag and dropping a file from an explorer window onto a program, which I do literally all the time.
What were they thinking?!?!
It's because Microsoft fired all the straight forward thinkers that made windows 7 and ie 7.
What I'm looking for is the old Win7 folder skin where you could see all the content inside. Now With win11 only can see half images inside the folder icon.
Windows 7 was the last functional version of Windows.
Watching this just makes me wanna cling to my win7ified win10 setup as long as possible lmao
Winaero utility is very useful for customizing things, like title bar height, taskbar thumbnail size, border width, and many many more. Even you can export the settings and do it again after a reinstall.
You're also able to get back the old volume and network control. Something that bothered me a long time. Especially since the new volume control without 3rd party like Ear Trumpet is a massive downgrade
I will keep all my PCs on Windows 7 until the day that all programs no longer support it. Thank you for showing us how we may fix some of their disgrace when that day comes.
Love it
@@quintit And then 2 months after that Steam announced End of Life in 2024 because like everything now, their client is based on Chromium. Genuinely did not expect that. No updated Steam client means no playing with my friends.
So I tried out *Linux*
_Never going back._
Valve has helped so much with funding the eradication of issues with playing Windows games on Linux for their Steam Deck in the last 5 years that there's almost no tweaks that need to be made anymore. And Linux has almost everything you could want for any technical work with filesystems, different file types, etc. that Windows always required obscure third party software for. The majority of Windows programs besides games can also run on Linux, minus a few art programs, which you can run in a VM, which are very good on Linux. Linux is the way forward. Join me.
Thanks for covering audio so much cause that's important to me cause I use my computer to listen to high res audio and surround sound mixes.
I am with you on that. I could work with Windows7, Windows10 and Windows11 literally drive me nuts while using it. Why? I don't even fully know but here some reasons:
- The nag-messages when you do something that MS does not like (like installing Firefox and setting it as the default browser, or setting mpc-hc as the default video-player)
- The push/forced online account to use Windows at all
- I think it looks rather ugly, aesthetically speaking, among which that weird new (since W10) settings panel which looks like they made it for a phone instead of a PC. Also, what is up with it being monochrome?? I also don't like how the color of the up-bar of the Window changes based on whether it is focused or not, the idea is good but it looks ugly.
- I hate it that the file-manager hides the extensions and does not fully respect the user his sorting-preference (still putting the recent files on top, no matter how you sort)
- I hate it that the window-manager of Windows now opens every program in a tiny window instead of just using the entire resolution of the monitor. If I want to snap a window then I will just do it while using hotkeys (Windows-number), I really want programs to be fullscreen or halfscreen most of the time, not in a weird tiny window
- The high CPU- and RAM-usage. Yes, I don't mind RAM which I have getting used, fine. I do mind it being so high without being doing useful things, just for the system. It is more a principle thing, I have 32 GB.
- The suggestive dialoge-'options' with Windows very much pushing which answer you 'should' give.
I could probably rant a bit longer but I think that this will do. :p
I still use Windows 7. I'm debating do i jump to Linux after Win7... We'll see. So many programs and drivers are still connected to Windows. Regarding Open Shell / Classic Shell, it's quite amazing! I've been playing with it this year, and it's amazing how much one can customize it. That's why i love it so, i really customizing stuff. I suppose that's why i like Coreldraw, PDF-XChange Editor etc. so much. I rock the Classic style of Classic Shell.
Sounds a lot like what I had to do with Windows 8.1 when I finally made the jump over to that OS. Between the annoying permissions and "Metro" set up Microsoft has, I genuinely hated the way things were working, but after making various tweaks much like were shown in this video, I've had no real issues with 8. As things are starting to lag behind further and further on this aging OS, I'm considering jumping to 10 or 11, but I need to make certain I can make the same changes as I did years ago to 8.
Great video. I love Classic Shell and the overall flexibility of options for how you can set up your start menu.
Classic shell keeps me sane. (i can actually search my files)
@@quintit I can relate. Classic Shell is awesome.
Great stuff! The "improved mouse cursor accuracy" setting used to be off by default, right?
I think so. I hate it so much and always think the mouse is broken when I do a fresh install these days lol
I didn't know that was on. I'll have to check and make sure it's off on my computer too.
I'm still running Windows 7 right now.
As always, Thanks Logan. You have helped me love the start button again. I hope whoever designed that disaster watches your video.
For the sound i just right click the speaker icon and click sounds. Also i use open shell already but thanks for this video was interesting to see what else can do to it
StartAllBack works too to make the taskbar and start menu to look like Windows 7. All in one.
Privately, on my desktop-PC, I only use Linux these days, including gaming. I was kind of fine with Windows7 but then Windows10 was so horrible for me that I just dumped Windows, to a large extend because I had no SSD back then and W10 without a SSD was pretty much unusable. Also something went wrong and MS could not downgrade it to W7. When the support of W7 ended I quit using Windows. On my desktop-PC (right now) I use Arch (which Valve uses for its SteamDeck) and dwm, a minimalist but fully featured and flexible tiling window manager. I love it, I am willing to sacrifice that one game which I played and which is not supported yet on Linux, whatever. Currently I am playing Hollow Knight, Cuphead and StarCraft2, I am fine with gaming. But I do have Windows (11) on my laptop because not always I can decide which software I use, so I know all about the pain which Windows-users go through. Recently somehow Microsoft failed at installing a driver for my laptop because it could not install one of its own libraries, impressive. I had the BSOD's because the OEM and MS together made a mess of certain drivers...
Open Shell worked just fine on Windows 11 when this video came out by the way, so not sure why it was stated that people needed to use a program that cost money instead? Otherwise, great video. Thank you.
Just got a Win 11 laptop so this video came out at a perfect time!! Thank you sir!
One thing I liked about Windows 7 is I didn't really have to change many settings. Whereas with 10 and 11, it is a ton of settings I have dig through to tweak. Makes setting up a new computer a real pain. Not sure if they let you save your settings to a file that you can just transfer over or something when setting up a 2nd computer.
Been watching on and off since 2014 and have always liked the way you go about creating videos, content pieces like this why I keep coming back and I know its a longshot but I really hope this channel regains the big viewership it once had.
Ear trumpet is amazing. I've been using it for a couple years now and it's the first thing that I install when I reformat.
I been using for long time
Hey! You are my hero!! Activated Windows 10 Pro on new hardware just now.
My old SSD Win10 Pro works on my 10 year old computer, but not here. Thanks
Great content. I been trying to fix the right click menu in 11. That’s the biggest issue I got
Like the topic. I've used shot cuts on the desktop to find stuff, as Win 10 is a maze to find anything.
Always love watching your stuff logan, ever since back in the tigerdirect days through to now. keep it coming man, hope you're doing well on your side of the world.
I'm really surprised that you didn't do that registry tweak to bring back the old Windows 7 sound menu. The Windows 7 sound icon code is still a part of Windows 10. Since you were trying to mimic Windows 7, it's a bit weird that you chose eartrumpet over that.
Great Windows 10 makeover! I love it!
Hey Logan, real huge fan. Been watching your stuff ever since 2014, give or take. Regardless of my degree (BSEE), content from creators like you have made me incredibly much more tech savvy throughout the workplace and have allowed me to succeed in the engineering industry (primarily CAD, 3D modeling, etc.). Thank you so much for that, additionally , your whokeys discount code allowed me to purchase office professional for my overtime work at home as well :).
That being said, we’re dealing with a scenario, where we had a colleague get laid off since he primarily got so frustrated with his tasks and efforts, he would essentially click everywhere on his computer and ruin every setting in both CAD and windows. I’ve done everything on my end short of a complete clean install of windows, I was able to salvage the default CAD settings, but he even upgraded to windows 11 despite me warning him not to do so. So the computer is a 8700k/RTX 2070, running at the speed of a pentium (Dell OEM to make matters worse….) What can be done to completely restore that copy of windows without resulting to a format + clean install of windows? I’ve told my boss that a clean install of windows is the best way to approach this at this point in the pc’s lifecycle, but it’s understandably not ideal or efficient to do just that. Any ideas on how to get this computer back in shape?
I had no idea the action center could be turned of nice!
Man, it is getting to be a pain in the ass to setup a new windows install now!
I remember just disabling the "customized view" in xp that hid apps and system tray icons, and doing a few other small tweaks... Now it's a Huuuugee process!
Awesome video though, all those are very helpful. Especially the start menu, file explorer, and audio trumpet app.
But that means I'll have to buy a windows key... Haha.
I've been casually using Linux mint and like it, but after a few years I'm still not as fluid as with windows. I had to manually install a wifi driver and I did it, but it wasn't as fluid as with all the windows tricks I had learned over the years.
Ah, how to convert "Windows for Toddlers" back to the functional version. Nice.
2:50 DO WE THOUGH?? DO WE???
you can also just click SOUNDS in windows 10 which is WAY FASTER, instead of in trumpet and take 1 more menu, but trumpet is def better.
Dont get me wrong im a win7 worshipper. But you clearly havent even tried to get into windows 10. that view button is easily opened in windows 10, RIGHT CLICK within the map (no need to move mouse) open view and there you go (which is faster than moving ur mouse to top ALL the time). There is many more things you deny that already are functional within windows 10, and ofcourse fast to reach.
This is brilliant. Thanks very much!
This was actually a really useful video
Thank you a lot for this video !
I just installed windows 10. I tried to understand et get used to its start menu : I just hate it !
I chose Stardock Start 11 (trial) at first but I was not convinced.
Then, I switched to Open-Shell : PERFECT !
I just love the skin "immersive" ! And I really appreciate the customization feature !
I breath again ! Thank you again !
There is a setting within eartrumpet that changes the icon. I forgot what it's called, but there's only like 2 settings in the app.
Classic Shell always felt jankey and buggy to me. Startisback++ is the closest to Windows 7's start menu IMHO
step 1: uninstall win 10 or 11 malware.
step 2: install win 7 pro 64bit
step 3: grow food, get super fit and stay alert.
@@TheGamerGuy1981 I would if they supported my art apps and tablet without issues, but they dont.
@@TheGamerGuy1981 actual step 4: the UN has taken over and you won't be needing your PC ;P
Please do a video about restoring the Win7 Aero style
I wanted to get this stuff set up for my computer, but I was warned about how setting up stuff like this on your computer posed the potential risk for problems with booting. From what I understand, It's more prevalent when adding windows 7 aeroglass to the desktop, but with these things in particular, is there anything of concern?
I love the modern look of Windows 11 and 10 i loved windows 7 but i moved on We can't keep living in past But Ear trumpet is great you can get from windows market place
Thanks for making this. I can't stand all the unnecessary fluff added to each new os.
Super great video! I would love to see a video on theming in the future. :)
Ok but how do we get back to Windows 3.1? I've always been a Start Menu skeptic ;P
Wow awesome dude!!! Thanks for sharing :)
My laptop came with 10 embedded, so I am stuck with that garbage, so this is a very welcome video. Thank you!
another cool program for windows XP is inEXperience , if you want to make a Retro XP build with older GPUs and older drivers you can get a ton of windows 95 and 98 games working . with In Experience you can make windows XP look indentical to windows 95, 98 ,2000 except for the launch screen which stays windows Xp but everything else will take you back to the 90s
I run Classic Shell on all my computers and just have all my programs sorted in program groups per type. Never understood why you have a graphical UI and then they expect you to start searching for a program by typing text in the search bar ... like DOS or Linux terminal window ... why? What's the point? Just a couple of clicks in my program tree structure is way faster than having to type all the time
Can you make the DVD player play my store bought DVDs like Win7 did?
Man 7 was easy to activate it was the last version to include simplicity, style, AND NO WEB SEARCH AND TELEMETRY I miss those days I used windows 8.1 to it’s final days after 7 ended support but now it’s all over
I love your voice I bet you could do a great mgs snake accent!
I recommend windows blinds for the aero glass at the top of the windows
"This PC"
cmon man, do the final thing to take back control
where the heck to you put desktop icons back, ie My computer, network..
the windows 7 is so smooth compare to windows 8 and 10 or 11. i don't know why but the recent ones suck so bad. Is there anyway we can develop an interface and smooth running software.. because a gaming computer still can't hold on windows 10 at all.
start is back is better then those 2 options you suggested... but not free
There are some tools you can use for aero glass also
'if u use these things then keep then checked' bro, you can type from the start menu and
you can press alt+tab to view taskview💀
What About Taskbar And Aero Glass
Does this slow down your computer?
Great use like icons anything I wanted sometimes depends on what software editor you use really
this is how to make win 10 LOOK more like win7. i want all my freedom of changing system files back
Where did you get the wallpaper
I wish you did a video about how to make Windows 10 look like Windows 7 in terms of window decorations and that glass look, because Windows 10 has a really sucky minimalistic design that sucks in a big way.
I HATE HATE HATE settings and the start menu in Windows 10 and 11. My windows 10 doesn't even show newly installed software. Bring windows 7 back!
now i just need the sound blaster (Thunder sound ) at start up ....
dont forget netspeedmonitor and t-clock
Why did you stop doing tech news? I always thought you did it well and you have a good voice for it
Because he tried to steal work and money from the co-owner and lost the news channel as a resulting settlement. He took advantage of a ton of people and in order to try to hide it shut down the websites and channel. He doesn't do news anymore because he got caught red handed being an awful person.
What about aero from win7 or vista for win 10? The frosted glass is awful
IT's traumatic trying to comprehend beyond windows 7 for older people. I'm 79, used Windows 7 forever. I cannot do ANYTHING in Windows 10 or 11. They stink and are not User Friendly!!!! I'm physically sick from trying and would pay double for Windows 7 to be useable. And I've even tried an IMAC and it's just as sickening.
Really great stuff in this video! A great way to reach new audiences! Keep it up Logan!
Windows 11 settings are much better than 10. They are not 7 but that is ok as they do the same functionality for 85% of things. Sound mixer will be fixed next year
thank all the powers that be for this video
Good video but he moves too damn fast, it's tough to follow. Use FREE Classic Shell to make win 10 look like 7.
pls tell me can open shell make my windows background in gray? it means background of word and excel are gray too.
Ohh this pretty dope, I’ve use the icons one to change it to my liking but the other are something I can use for the family since their use to using windows 10 and 7
Rw designer has Windows 7 icons in ico format
Do you have a list of all the anime you have :) I'm trying to fill up my legally obtained jellyfin anime collection, thanks - J
I use "godmode" to go to every old settings in Windows 10.
I went back to Vista yesterday
Outstanding
classic shell for the win!!
Human nature is so tedious. I imagine hearing the people with horse and wagons complaining about this new thing called an automobile. That will never work, they said. They’ll need fuel stations all over! Then they died. And the next generation embraced the automobile.
Thank You, I tried some of the software it does work with Win11, Open Shell, which is better than nothing. OldExplorer not so much.
Thanks for posting the OEM links.
I have to agree I like going to the root, Im a win 7 person myself, but Ms screw me on my legit version of Win7 by saying that the authentication system is no longer active.
Honestly most of this stuff can be done with registry keys, other than the icons.
I don't trust Windows update... Afraid it'll break registry stuff. It'll probably break other stuff as well but it might not be as hard to undo
@@teksyndicate Ah, didn't expect you to respond! Most of it is just using the old registry keys as default. Personally I haven't had an issue but each to their own!
is the deviantart site hack?
Windows 10 just upgraded me to Win 11 as an update or something lol! Win 11 is quite nice actually, way better than Win 10 imho...
Legend!!!
Windoze needs to open desktop development so users can choose what is best for them.
Windoze is a mess now.
What about MS Guides?
Doesn't Irfanview convert to ICO? Why not just use that to batch convert everything?
Its better to go get the real source from rw designer
Tek Syndicate
you are genius! But it is a lot of work to rebuild win10 to win7. But nice.
Awesome content
Still have my Win 7 Ultimate disc and cd key ….. I wish Win 11 was mostly like that 🥰🥰🫠🫠👍. Win 7 was the. It’s like Win O/S EVER! I can see why 🤤🤤. I do wish MS would only change icons when there’s a valid reason too ….. the Win 11 skin is blah imo …. 10 is better by comparison, but still Win 7 😇👍😉
I've been using EarTrumpet forever! Unfortunately you can't drag to hide the "old" volume control on Windows 11
You can hide it with startallback. Made by the dev of oldnewexplorer. It reenables the windows 10 taskbar for 11 along with having 7 style explorer and start menu.
Bro just gave us a free product key at the beginning of the video