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Windows Vista's startup sound suddenly reappears in Windows 11's beta build, and no, it's not a joke
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this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2025
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You skipped, arguably, the best version of windows. I stayed on 98se as long as I could, until the custom black themes came out. They made it much less cartoony.
Here's one I used (screenshot from the interwebs):
The black themes went so hard. I miss XP
Even without that, there was still full support for classic 95-style themes, even if they were a bit of a pfaff to put together.
Indeed! And I used those a few times on friends' computers and told them they I "upgraded" them back to 95. It was so funny