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the only things that give away how recent that desktop is are the resolution (1920x1080) and the razer synapse icon in the tray i think that screenshot was like 2009 maybe
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BattleMaster posted:Found this on a CD-R dated November 2001, but I'm pretty sure it was from earlier that year. It's in a folder with a ton of poo poo with identical times and dates so I think they got mangled. I took it specifically because I was "playing" ActiveWorlds with goons and wanted it as a picture on a computer monitor in a building I made. Man I'm seeing a lot of very good playing times on that taskbar and desktop, extra points for the extremely fine Urban Terror
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Jun 10, 2016 03:21
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This reminds me of using LiteStep as my shell because regular Windows wasn't cool enough and I couldn't figure out Linux
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Jun 10, 2016 03:34
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wow Music Match Jukebox
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it was the only thing that would reliably sync my piece of poo poo mp3 player IIRC
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Jun 10, 2016 03:39
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I still use Winamp to this day. Even on my phone.
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Last Chance posted:it was the only thing that would reliably sync my piece of poo poo mp3 player IIRC Oh sorry I'm not talking poo poo, I had just completely forgotten about it. I think I used it a lot actually, perfectly labeled library of MP3s ripped from CDs or really low bitrate ones downloaded on 56k! Just kind of a "wow" like wow I'm having a flashback to 2001 edit: downloaded from Audiogalaxy!
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I broke our family pc one time fooling around changing the shell in some windows *.ini file. When i went to put the default back (explorer), i typo'd it (exporer), and all of a sudden no more booting to windows. Couldve been recovered in a bunch of ways i now know but for a solid few days i was horrified i had totally wrecked the machine. I think i ended up fixing it in a kinda roundabout way: using a bootable linux cd (knoppix) to gain access to filesys, mount the win disk, edit the file and correct my typo and voila !! Dad was pleased
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Jun 10, 2016 03:44
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i knew i had one somewhere
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Jun 10, 2016 03:44
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What was the popular program to customize windows clock (and the whole start taskbar or whatever it is called in winblows jargon) etc? Tclock maybe?
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:wow Music Match Jukebox it got rebranded Dell MusicMatch Jukebox and became pre-installed crapware for a generation of computer users those halcyon days pre-Dell influence did not last long enough sadly
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Jun 10, 2016 04:42
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Winamp still rules for Windows but IMO the Android version is kind of lovely, PowerAmp is the greatest music player on that platform
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drunk asian neighbor posted:Winamp still
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VectorSigma posted:i knew i had one somewhere I'm 27% of forgottenho...
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Turdsdown Tom posted:it got rebranded Dell MusicMatch Jukebox and became pre-installed crapware for a generation of computer users It was still pretty good for a few years even after that. It used to be my go-to application for ripping CDs and making higher than 128k mp3 files, with the bonus it handled naming way better than other options.
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Jun 10, 2016 06:23
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Regular Nintendo posted:I'm 27% of forgottenho... funny you should mention that, I am the HOT_TEEN_SHOWS_IT_ALL.MOV being downloaded in Kazaa Lite that's actually a renamed nickelback music video
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Jun 10, 2016 08:22
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I'm the guy that paid for Musicmatch Radio or whatever the gently caress it was called which was a precursor to Pandora One or Itunes Match or Spotify Premium. I'm so sorry  Musicmatch was a poo poo proggy at the end of the day, but like another goon said it had a really good ID3 editor interface to drop in album art and check titles against Gracenote way before the llama whipped it's rear end or even iTunes. Then again, Winamp still never really lets you change several file properties in one clip in an easy or intuitive way as Musicmatch did. I used some other program called Tag & Replace or some poo poo that was almost TOO intuitive in that if you had checkmarks in the wrong places you could easily jack the ID tags of hundreds of tracks if you weren't paying attention. FUUUUCK! I really hate the micro managing involved with organizing a music library and I still haven't found anything that can satiate that. MediaMonkey came close but not enough. Of all of these programs... Winamp is still installed and used on my computer... chugging along in a Win10 world. Modern theme of course! Robnoxious has a new favorite as of 08:35 on Jun 10, 2016 |
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Heavily skinned of course! I think it was '04.
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thathonkey posted:What was the popular program to customize windows clock (and the whole start taskbar or whatever it is called in winblows jargon) etc? Tclock maybe? Windowblinds?
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thathonkey posted:What was the popular program to customize windows clock (and the whole start taskbar or whatever it is called in winblows jargon) etc? Tclock maybe? Archlinux.
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I don't think a screenshot of my icon-filled desktop from my old machine would be very interesting because the icons aren't for very cool things, it's more like "SOME poo poo SOMEONE EMAILED ME IN 2003.PPT" and "things to back up.txt", but here's a pretty picture of a Windows XP theme I used to use (or maybe it was a variation of this, I dunno): I wanted a dark theme though, and tried heaps but they were all buggy so I ended up using the Microsoft Zune theme which was kinda good but I wish it wasn't just the same shapes as regular XP with different colors. 8 track betamax posted:Archlinux. I used to use the Linux console a lot and used to be happy when I could get it to run in 132x43 character mode or even 132x60 if I was really lucky. Also setting up cool colorization for "ls". This is just like skinning, right?
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That reminds me. I'm probably the only  that is bugged by this but the animal heard in that famous WinAmp sound clip is a sheep or goat and llamas sound nothing like it.See also: the llama pet in Torchlight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le3mqXLZwI0 Robnoxious posted:I really hate the micro managing involved with organizing a music library and I still haven't found anything that can satiate that. MediaMonkey came close but not enough. I like my albums sorted by chronological release date, nested in artist in alphabetical order, and I remember having trouble getting that to work to my liking with anything so I've just resigned myself to tagging/organizing music myself years ago and just telling foobar2000 to sort by file path. I'm probably putting way too much effort into it now though because I'm sure auto-sorting in the way I want would probably work out fine with pretty much any music player. Except maybe in cases where two albums were released in the same year. No god drat it Fly by Night comes before Caress of Steel! 
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I was always worried that going nuts on the ui customization wouls just makes things more sluggish than they already were. Probably mych less of a concern nowadays.
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The is the last desktop screenshot I took before I finally upgraded from Windows 98SE to XP... in loving 2006. In my mind, newer Windows was worse Windows no matter what so I just never upgraded. At this point I was using some unofficial service pack to keep it limping along with modern USB devices and get Unicode support.
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Casimir Radon posted:I was always worried that going nuts on the ui customization wouls just makes things more sluggish than they already were. Probably mych less of a concern nowadays. Unless it is a ui customization made by samsung or htc or lg or whatever badly shoved on top of androids stock ui
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:In my mind, newer Windows was worse Windows no matter what so I just never upgraded. At this point I was using some unofficial service pack to keep it limping along with modern USB devices and get Unicode support. If you'd been running Windows 2000 I'd kind of understand, that was a good Windows...but 98? 
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Mak0rz posted:Wasn't TrueType or whatever originally for reducing flicker in text displayed on a CRT? Sub-pixel anti-aliasing looks fine on my current 1920x1080 LCD display but looked like garbage on my old 1280x1024 one. ClearType. TrueType is a font format. 
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Casimir Radon posted:I was always worried that going nuts on the ui customization wouls just makes things more sluggish than they already were. Probably mych less of a concern nowadays. Depends. If you are just replacing some bitmaps with other bitmaps of comparable size, and changing some colors and fonts, it shouldn't have any meaningful impact - it's not like the windows UI system cares much about the content of the textures.
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Robnoxious posted:Musicmatch was a poo poo proggy at the end of the day, but like another goon said it had a really good ID3 editor interface to drop in album art and check titles against Gracenote way before the llama whipped it's rear end or even iTunes. Then again, Winamp still never really lets you change several file properties in one clip in an easy or intuitive way as Musicmatch did. I used some other program called Tag & Replace or some poo poo that was almost TOO intuitive in that if you had checkmarks in the wrong places you could easily jack the ID tags of hundreds of tracks if you weren't paying attention. FUUUUCK! Yeah, Tag & Replace was poo poo. I use MP3Tag for batch renaming of files and retagging. I have a program that downloads the album art, but yeah I've always had to organize my music by hand. Every folder is in Artist - Year - Album, every song is Track # - Title.mp3, and every folder has a single folder.jpg for the cover art (except for a couple albums that have embedded art since its different for every track). Adderall helps this process tremendously. Mak0rz posted:
I had this issue, which is why I started putting the release year in the folder name, but then I realized that Winamp can do 2 levels of sorting - so you can tell it to only display albums by X artist, then sort those albums by year (pretty sure it's reading the ID3 tags for that info and not the directory name, but old habits die hard I guess)
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I remember being rather rudely shoved into having to use Windows 2000 when my old motherboard died and the next one I got (a hand-me-down because I was so poor) was somehow faulty in that Windows 98 was incapable of running without constant bluescreening and only 2000 worked. I eventually came to like it but at first it was like I was being forced to use a work PC as my default one.
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Win 2000 is one of the best OS ever made. Ever.
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I still use foobar2000 on my work computer because it's slim and easy and I don't need customization, just something to play music 
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Hooray for sorting MP3s by Folder! I haven't used WinAMP since I bought a Sonos system for my house. On my phone I use either streaming apps, or something called FolderPlayer. It's nice and light, does what I need it to do.
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thathonkey posted:Win 2000 is one of the best OS ever made. Ever. Totally agreed If I remember, it was the same as xp at its core, just without the fluff. I want to say software and hardware were pretty compatible? Of course lol of you weren't running XP Pro Corporate from the Devilsown release back then, I think everyone I knew was, I had the FCKGW key memorized back then
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Yeah XP was pretty much the same as 2000 under hood and had the rock solid NT kernel. Software and hardware compatibility was outstanding in both
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thathonkey posted:Yeah XP was pretty much the same as 2000 under hood and had the rock solid NT kernel. Software and hardware compatibility was outstanding in both IIRC XP had more compatibility stuff built in to ease the transition from Windows 9x.
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Those are correct icons to have in quick launch.
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Doctor Bombadil posted:Those are correct icons to have in quick launch. The one on the far right is my favorite game of all time
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feedmegin posted:If you'd been running Windows 2000 I'd kind of understand, that was a good Windows...but 98? That was me. I went from Windows 2k to Windows 7. I didn't see the point in XP as it just seemed like bloated 2k and then Vista was supposed to be hot garbage. Bum the Sad has a new favorite as of 02:22 on Jun 11, 2016 |
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