Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7

Post by wildzzz » Thu, May 14, 2026, 5:22 PM UTC

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For me, search integrated into the start menu was a major quality of life improvement. Particularly the ability to hit the Windows key and type the name of an application. Strictly speaking, this was introduced in Vista, but I feel like Windows 7 added a lot of useful polish to the Windows Vista style of UI. I otherwise agree that the older Win 2k era UI was pretty much an ideal UI. The whole "frutiger aero" look did…

The Start Menu integrated search would have been real nice if it worked properly, but unfortunately they decided on some kind of “search” algorithm that can't even do a substring match on items in the Start Menu. I have no clue what the thinking there was, but it drives me to not want to use it.

Post by 1718627440 » Thu, May 14, 2026, 6:32 PM UTC

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I know it should be the default, but if you turn off online searches for the Start Menu, it operates exactly how you'd expect it to on Windows 11. Windows 11 is also a lot faster than 7 was on equivalent systems. Windows 7 would take minutes to boot.

>Windows 7 would take minutes to boot. Citation needed. I went from Win7 on a i5-2500k that booted in sub 15 seconds on a SATA SSD to Win10 on a 5600x that takes 45 seconds to a minute to boot an NVME drive.

Post by schlauerfox » Thu, May 14, 2026, 7:20 PM UTC

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Vista was an absolute dumpster fire but in no way compares to the awfulness of ME.

Vista wasn't remotely a dumpster fire. I used it for almost its entire lifetime, it was totally fine.

Post by lichenwarp » Thu, May 14, 2026, 8:38 PM UTC

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For me, search integrated into the start menu was a major quality of life improvement. Particularly the ability to hit the Windows key and type the name of an application. Strictly speaking, this was introduced in Vista, but I feel like Windows 7 added a lot of useful polish to the Windows Vista style of UI. I otherwise agree that the older Win 2k era UI was pretty much an ideal UI. The whole "frutiger aero" look did…

I use the Win-key+[start typing] search all the time, but I also used it in the XP era. Only then it was a third-party app, with order of magnitude more customization and control. I actually have a worse experience now, but it's just above my tolerance threshold so I don't do anything about it.

Post by rincebrain » Thu, May 14, 2026, 9:51 PM UTC

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I think what drives me mad is its nondeterminism. If I hit Winkey and type a string, it should not be the case that I get different results from doing that 6 times in a row because it depends whether some background task which changes the results finishes first.

That's annoying, but I think what's worse is these: Start typing a word, see the thing you want, finish the word, it disappears. And Start typing, see what you want, stop typing and hit enter, but it changed to something else between when you saw it and when you hit enter.