Ask HN: Why Win95 GUI cannot be used on Windows 11?
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Re:Ask HN: Why Win95 GUI cannot be used on Windows 11?
by not_your_vase on Thursday May 22, 2025 @12:17PM
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You can always run WSL, install Wine, and run your old application through that. There is a solution for everything.
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Re:Ask HN: Why Win95 GUI cannot be used on Windows 11?
by PaulHoule on Thursday May 22, 2025 @12:13PM
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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.
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Re:Ask HN: Why Win95 GUI cannot be used on Windows 11?
by JojoFatsani on Thursday May 22, 2025 @05:30PM
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I don’t think they made any real improvements after Office 97. It had all the features of any value and none of the weird fluff or changes for changes sake.
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Re:Ask HN: Why Win95 GUI cannot be used on Windows 11?
by p_ing on Thursday May 22, 2025 @12:02PM
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Feel free to build it. Explorer.exe can be replaced. Good luck!
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Re:Ask HN: Why Win95 GUI cannot be used on Windows 11?
by solardev on Thursday May 22, 2025 @03:45PM
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Stardock makes a Windows theme app and you can get a 95 skin: https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/here...
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