![]() ![]() If you couldn’t afford to rent Star Wars on VHS as a kid, this was the next best thing. “I know what you did last summer”, “Princess Diana was an inside job”, “your haircut is unflattering”. The best use of this was to prank your friends. I love it, and never want to see it again. ![]() In slight seriousness, this has all the existential terror of well, modern life, with all the creepiness of the Golden Age gadgets. The astronaut adriftĭid you know the 2013 Sandra Bullock vehicle Gravity, directed by Alfonso Cuarón, was loosely adapted from this screensaver? The more you know. I can say, with no exaggeration or lie, that this is pretty much exactly what I thought the inside of my computer looked like. Was this the 1995 equivalent of the train coming at the screen in the early 20th century? 9. Flying logosĬapitalism never looked so dazzling. I’m not mad at it, but call a spade a spade, and call a mid-90s visual music accompaniment just that. Pretty sure this is just Windows Media Player. In 2021, a bleak view of what the Amazon rainforest used to look like. In 1995, a quite lovely view of what the Amazon might look like. The scary part? You didn’t even choose this screensaver. The only light emanating from your (probably grey, bulky) Window PC are little gadgets from ‘The Golden Age’ floating across your screen. Picture this: you come back to your computer after making a warm cup of tea. The forest floorīugs! Honestly, this mostly just reminds me of that scene in The Lion King where a meerkat and a warthog convince an apex predator to eat bugs rather than them. Only slightly worse than watching an actual game of baseball, which is only slightly better than watching a game of cricket, which is much better than watching a game of social cricket, which is roughly as good as using Windows 95s through XP. Haunted house? This is barely a slightly disturbed house. This is just Scooby Doo and/or Hardy Boys concept art, slightly animated. Do you know what default is French for? “Settles for less than nothing.” (I don’t speak French.) 16. Your photos should not be your screensaver! They’re dumb and distracting. This is technically a Windows XP screensaver, but XP probably counts as “classic” now (if we’re using radio’s definition of “classic”), so it’s here. (If you’re thinking of a logo bouncing around, you’re thinking of a DVD player.) 18. After installation, be sure to pick the Winamp Classic skin.It’s all the classic PC screensavers, ranked from worst to best. While we wait for the next release (opens in new tab), you can download Winamp 5.6 from here (opens in new tab). Winamp was one of the most popular music players during the '90s, and the last official version continues to work on Windows 10. However, there are some great third-party applications from the era that remain compatible with Windows 10. In most cases, Windows doesn’t let you install older versions of system applications, so using early versions of Windows Media Player or Internet Explorer isn’t going to happen for the most part. Now that your PC looks as close to Windows 95 as possible (without modifying system files), it’s time to complete the setup with some popular applications from the '90s. ![]() This can be done by opening the Settings app, selecting 'Ease of Access,' clicking the 'Display' section, and turning off 'Show animations in Windows.' Download some classic Windows software Turning off some animations can also help. You can also turn on 'Use small taskbar icons' if you want the Windows 95 start button to fit in a little better. This will show window titles next to the app icons, just like the default design in earlier versions of Windows. First, head over to the Taskbar settings (right click the Taskbar and select 'Taskbar settings'), and change 'Combine taskbar buttons' to 'Never'. There are a few additional changes you can make for a more authentic Windows 95 experience. If you move the image file later, Open-Shell will revert back to the Aero button, so keep the image in your Documents folder or somewhere else safe. Download this settings file (opens in new tab) (ctrl+s in your browser), click the 'Skin' tab in the Open-Shell settings, click the 'Backup' button, and select 'Load from XML file.' Pick the settings file you just downloaded, and now your Start Menu should look a little closer to the classic Windows 95 style.įinally, download this bitmap image (opens in new tab) of the Windows 95 start button and select it from the custom start button section in Open-Shell for an even more authentic feel. The 'classic style' is closest to Windows 95, but we can get a little closer. After Open-Shell is done installing, it will give you a few layout options you can choose from. ![]()
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