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Re:Remembering Windows 2000 by Sohcahtoa82 on Monday June 15, 2020 @02:42PM (#23531278)
Not sure why so many people complain about it when it was trivial to enable a classic theme to make it look like Win2K.
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Re:Remembering Windows 2000 by jcfields on Monday June 15, 2020 @11:53PM (#23535806)
It was also commonplace to use the UXTheme patcher to enable third-party custom window themes. I used the Watercolor theme, which was modeled after the Whistler beta builds before they (bafflingly) switched it out for Luna.

I have a soft spot for Windows 2000 because I was very impressed with it when it first came out (coming from Win9x), but there wasn't much point to using it over XP after XP came out. Windows XP is just an improved version of 2000, and it was updated for much longer. Windows 2000 doesn't even support wi-fi without third-party utilities.

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Re:Remembering Windows 2000 by smcl on Monday June 15, 2020 @03:14PM (#23531727)
I did the same but I recall there was a few elements that remained - the windows logo on the start menu was a bit colourful, and a few other bits couldn’t be changed too
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Re:Remembering Windows 2000 by ajtjp on Monday June 15, 2020 @07:35PM (#23534320)
The Windows logo in the Start menu was a bit colorful in Windows 95 and NT 4.0 as well. I'll grant you that the logo itself is slightly different in XP, but it had been colorful for years by that point.
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