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The beauty and terror of modding Windows

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Re: The beauty and terror of modding Windows

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you also have a windows 8 laptop with touch screen?

Yep! Sorry I just edited that in. Win8 is thoroughly underrated to me. The file open/close dialogs were shit but the start menu was very good. I quite liked the fullscreen apps and am sad they got discontinued. Fullscreen IE browsing with full touch support (eg swipe for back/forward, no window chromes in the way to mis-click on etc) was very cool. It made every website feel like a fullscreen app. It almost made the…

> How will I rage-close a "try chrome" popup without a touch screen?

Often Esc works.

Re: The beauty and terror of modding Windows

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Modding Windows is akin to building a sand castle. It might be fun, beautiful, but very much impermanent. You can expect it to be washed off with the next Windows update. I've done it before on Windows 7. Resized system clock, resized start menu button, removed "Terminate batch job (Y/N)?" warning in cmd, etc. Most annoying is that VirtualBox stops working with the patched uxtheme.dll. ... Life on Linux is great. My…

> You can expect it to be washed off with the next Windows update.

You can just run Windows in a VM and reset the VM to an older state when Microsoft messes up your settings again.

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