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Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C#

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377 points porterde | 2 comments | 14 Nov 24 21:47 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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bluedino ◴[15 Nov 24 01:19 UTC] No.42143079[source]▶
Man, that 1995-2001 era Windows UI was like, peak Windows.

It was so crisp and clean. Visual C++ and Visual Basic of the time were far from perfect, but they let you just get things done(tm)

XP was right around the corner and it's been downhill from there.

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twism ◴[15 Nov 24 01:22 UTC] No.42143088[source]▶
Nothing beats a clean windows 2000 install
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1. Lammy ◴[15 Nov 24 02:53 UTC] No.42143572[source]▶
Almost clean. One trip to Start Menu settings to disable the awful “Personalized Menus”. One more trip to Folder Options to disable “Hide file extensions for known file types” and to enable “launch folder windows in a separate process”.
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2. Sohcahtoa82 ◴[15 Nov 24 19:10 UTC] No.42149875[source]▶
> “Hide file extensions for known file types”

That never should have been a thing.

Naming files "totally-not-a-virus.jpg.exe" never would have been a problem if extensions weren't hidden by default.