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MPSimmons ◴[08 Dec 25 19:14 UTC] No.46196373[source]▶
PowerToys (https://legacyupdate.net/download-center/powertoys) used to be on my "first software to install" list on a new machine. Between Tweak UI and Deskman, you could _almost_ get a minimal X Windows-like UI. Get those set up and add on LiteStep (http://litestep.net/) and you were pretty much good to go, with the exceptions of the kernel, network stack, and CLI toolset, of course.
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1. chungy ◴[08 Dec 25 19:29 UTC] No.46196536[source]▶
Wow, somehow I entirely missed that Windows XP versions were made. I relied pretty heavily on the Windows 95 PowerToys when I used Win95.

Deskman seems like it'd be awesome.

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2. wormius ◴[09 Dec 25 00:21 UTC] No.46199673[source]▶
They still make it. Tons of great utils for Win10/11 (I'm off of 11 cuz fuck that noise, but when I was on win10 I used it).

Here's the link to the current version for modern systems: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/