A member of the Reddit community shared a very interesting mod that allowed him to convert the Windows 11 interface to a Windows 98 interface. This mod is all a nod to nostalgia those of us who were lucky enough to experience the development of computing in the nineties, and it is also a unique opportunity for younger people to experiment with the style and interface of the operating systems of the time.

The Windows 98 interface has that industrial, angular and utilitarian style which chooses a gray color in the windows, taskbar and start menu to create a very strong contrast with other elements such as the more colorful icons and the wallpaper itself. This interface has gone down in computing history and continues to hold a very special charm, no doubt about it.

The most interesting thing about this mod is that it not only allows you to bring the Windows 98 interface to Windows 11, but it has also been extended to applies to certain current applications, it completely transforms them to give them a very careful retro touch. The result is fantastic, as we can see in the attached image, where very popular applications appear on that retro desktop.

The application that takes up the most space when scanning is Steamwhich will appear at the top and display the main page of the user’s game library and the list of friends on the right in a separate oblong vertical window. They are just below the Steam window Telegram and disagreementwhich is located on the left and right.

The author of the Reddit post used this to achieve this very good result Stardock Windowblinds, Retrobar and Winaero Tweaker. He used Vencord/vesktop to style Discord and sfp to do the same with Steam. Both are available for free on the well-known Github repository.

Before you get carried away with your passion for retro, I remind you that although the applications and mods used are completely safe, this type of modification They always carry some risk, because they deeply affect the interface and can end up generating errors and even stability problems. Therefore, I do not recommend applying them to work computers, nor to your main PC.

If you want to experiment in depth with Windows 98 or Windows 95 It is best to use a retro PC. This is the most authentic way to experience what both operating systems can truly offer, recreating one of the best eras of consumer computing.

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