nostalgia for windows

Hi all.
Well as usual as its the start of the week and I am once again through the minimalistic tasks I need to do before the big patch day in 2 days time I reflect back.
An interesting article released is that windows 11 feels like a work in progress.
It does, all the issues we have had are unsetteling at least.
A lot of things are or aren’t about as the case may be and I for one am not happy with this.
Another article pushed the fact xp had a few good notes on itself for existing.
I guess for me the fact windows xp simply booted faster even on my older systems was a pluss.
There was 1 local account but at the same time I don’tt know.
Funnily enough I enjoyed the win 9x days built on top of ados shell and such.
True for the first part of its life windows was mostly offline and windows messenging was really cool.
But I don’t miss it these days.
Skype was a hit and miss, now its teams and zoom but I still am undecided.
It was a different me and a different time.
Actually I do wander if maybe we should throttle the net back such that we can turn most of it off.
We get far to much information and that means we get a lot of stuff we don’t really need.
Its nice to have the international drama over coffee and a bit of the local stuff but to be honest with the state the world is I’d prefer to return to the old days where you didn’t get so much.
I could go happily alone without knowing the world would end and all without the drama like I used to.
As the thunder roars outside though I can be happy that the power is still on which mean I can type this in the cold air with my large first coffee of the morning.
Things I miss about windows.
1. tthe sound schemes.
I know it matters little to a lot of us, we have the light or dark theme, I don’t even bother with themes but I used to enjoy sound schemes back in the day.
I don’t these days, I just want sound, I don’t give a care if its whatever it is but back in the 9x and xp days when I could doodle with the system I did.
Scifi themed sounds, a custom sound made by a hacker I knew, etc.
Then there was the time my startup was a modem dialing and the phone going down with shutdown.
But with shutdown gone sound schemes matter little these days.
To be honest with the fact we have ssd drives, the only reason I want startup is to know when to enter my information in fact I’d like a login beep to tell me if I can enter my codes.
I have also noticed the startup single ok beep on most new systems I have are gone.
My last 2 laptops do not beep on startup unless something is wrong.
My last 2 desktops the same.
I enjoyed the startup beep myself.
You knew what was wrong and you could fix it.
I also liked the apple startup which not only told you that it was apple but what model and unit it was that was starting.
From the sound you could trace where and when it was made, etc.
I liked the sounds on turn on where your many 3.5 and 5.25 inch drives started, etc.
On my laptop I can hear the hdd spin up and on the desktops no.
The latest lenovo box I have hardly makes a noise unless the ai thinks it needs to put more cpu power.

Things I don’t miss are the unstabelness of xp especially with accounts and how at times things could really screw themselves up.
Windows 9x and the usb drivers could be a real pain to.
And yet I still remember the simple days of dos and the config.sys and autoexec.bat.
I had the quemm memmory manager and would end up fiddling with the config file putting random numbers in then running th optimisation system.
Seriously the system just let me and fixed it and it looked and sounded cool
If I did this now the system probably wouldn’t load and I’d have a load of trouble.
I miss the fact that when the system fell over I could just reinstall and be up within 5 hours.
Now if a component fails and I almost inveriably have to reinstall I no longer enjoy it.
Even with my duel drive it takes ages to reconfig and the enjoyment is pritty much destroyed.
I liked the old netgguide magazines from 1995-2000 with cds.
I could get into a lot of trouble with so called good software that would destroy things but still have a good time.
I miss the days where if my system broke I took it back to the support people and they just did a bios update and it worked and nothing was charged.
I miss the fact that the older simple oses were just that simple.
I miss the days when windows was almost free of stuff.
If something stupid happened you laughed at it.
Its not like it is now and I am not sure about updates these days.
I was also reading that the new xbox systems have a stripped windows, I wander if a user could run a stripped windows, an old notification area, taskbar, a basic startup menu, maybe with local search and a desktop.
Something like win10 but updated to todays standards.