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📣 CppPro

Why Win95 GUI cannot be used on Windows 11?


Why Win95 GUI cannot be used on Windows 11?


  👤 PaulHoule Accepted Answer ✓
I booted up Office '97 on a Win 11 computer cause I needed to access an Access '97 document for work. Office '97 still works pretty well. Clippy even took over my desktop the same way he did in '97, it didn't look quite right because I guess borderless windows work a little different than they did almost 30 years ago but it worked.

👤 solardev
Stardock makes a Windows theme app and you can get a 95 skin: https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/here...

👤 not_your_vase
You can always run WSL, install Wine, and run your old application through that. There is a solution for everything.

👤 p_ing
Feel free to build it. Explorer.exe can be replaced. Good luck!