You still can. Run any program in compatibility mode; the Windows 2000 boxy UI is still there. As is the Windows Vista Aero Basic theme.

Like I always say, the user-mode of Windows is easiest to change, that's why it has been done almost every version.

Yes please! Speaking of which, was it Window Blinds(?) that could back/forward port UI themes across various Windows versions? Are they still around?

Yes and it's a subscription based license now.. of course

good heavens - can any thing or any one escape the subscription madness

Yes, that would be glorious. Could be the XP UI too… have some more flexibility around themes.

Did you try it?

I can't immediately see why explorer.exe wouldn't run and give you a start menu

> and tell an LLM to make it work on the win11 74 bit kernel

It won't compile.

Probably the 10 extra bits.

The extra 84 win have to go somewhere

Only two more to go for the LLM to hallucinate x64-86 into existence.