Why does part of the Windows 98 Setup program look older than the rest?

• windows-11-inconsistencies

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  Windows 11 has elements that remain unchanged from older versions of the Windows saga. Since Microsoft builds upon the same core every time Windows gets updated, they get lazy.

There's a whole list of weird Windows UI remnants from previous versions on github:

https://github.com/Lentern/windows-11-inconsistencies

• serenity

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  The Serenity Operating System 🐞

  

SerenityOS replicates that look and feel. It is also implemented in a dialect of C++ that adheres to some of the good parts of C++98: https://serenityos.org

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• winfile

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  Original Windows File Manager (winfile) with enhancements

  

Ask and ye shall receive: https://github.com/Microsoft/winfile

File Manager, or winfile.exe, was the predecessor to Explorer's file management aspects. You can use it on Windows 10 and 11 (and all the others) if you want to.

Program Manager, or progman.exe, was the predecessor shell to Explorer. It was included with Windows through Windows XP SP1 before finally being stubbed in SP2. You can probably grab the binary from XP SP1 and run it in newer Windows versions, though.

• old-new-win32api

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  Organized bookmarks to Win32API posts of Raymond Chen's blog "The Old New Thing".

Do you have any recommendations?

I assume this is the one you’re talking about https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/

I was curious, went to the end (page 699!) and it’s pretty interesting. But obviously it’s hard to find the important ones.

• Open-Shell-Menu

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  Classic Shell Reborn.

  

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