I unironically used this theme when I was a kid!

what kind of themes did you use to customize your operating systems or software?

Did you keep the standard themes or did you spend hours customizing the look and feel?

  • @tallwookie
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    31 year ago

    absolutely loathed the hotdog color scheme, and my sister knew it, she’d always change it back to that scheme.

    I prefer muted dark colors, easier on my eyes. back in win3.1 I mostly used dos5

    • @[email protected]OPM
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      21 year ago

      ha!

      yeah I can see how the theme might be overwhelming, I am partially colorblind thought so maybe that is the reason I found it so appealing

  • @[email protected]
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    21 year ago

    Ah yes, Windows 3.1 Hot Dog Stand: great color scheme or greatest color scheme?

    I also really loved making custom wallpapers with custom pixel patterns. What a throwback

  • @[email protected]
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    21 year ago

    I used to spend more time on such things, even to the point of replacing Windows Explorer with Blackbox at least once. Nowadays I just scrounge some wallpapers off the web and put them on rotate.

  • Leo Uino
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    21 year ago

    Ah yes! Not so much themes, but I got a demo copy of a Windows 3.1 shell called Wayfarer from a magazine cover disk, and spent many happy hours setting that up. Also creating mashups of the standard wallpapers in Paintbrush, and fiddling with ChromaZone.