Comments are not for extended discussion; this conversation has been moved to chat. – Chenmunka May 26, 2020 at 16:59<p>chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/... : Page not found<p>This is really wrong. I wanted to read that discussion.
Interesting! Makes a lot of sense, too: if you’re offering the ability to upgrade from 3.1 you’re going to need to support it anyway, so why not use it as a setup bootstrap?
I was somehow able to change my mouse processing animation to red running horse.<p>That was the highlight of my year and I showed it to all my schoolmates.
What is the official name of this minimal Windows 3 system? I know it used to have a name. It was used for other purposes too, but I can't for the life of me remember what.
The peak of mouse-driven GUI was Windows 98. The icon designs, the customization, and the animation is unmatched even today.<p><a href="https://alexmeub.com/old-windows-icons/" rel="nofollow">https://alexmeub.com/old-windows-icons/</a>
I used to only own 'upgrade' versions of Windows (cheaper).<p>Whenever I had to reinstall Windows (which was frequent back in Win98 days), I had to first install DOS from floppy, then Win 3.11 from floppy, then a CD-ROM driver, then Win95 from CD until I could finally install Win98. (at one point I acquired a non-upgrade version of Win95 but it came on 20+ floppies, so the installation was not really much faster).<p>The end-result was a Win98 installation with a lot of old software lying around as the 'upgrade' installers did not always remove all of the existing items.
There's a whole list of weird Windows UI remnants from previous versions on github:<p><a href="https://github.com/Lentern/windows-11-inconsistencies">https://github.com/Lentern/windows-11-inconsistencies</a>