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Hi all out there,
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Maverick3 said:

Hi all out there,
best greetings from Germany!

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Hello, Maverick3.

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Hi everybody. Thanks in advance for accepting me here.
I'm a mid-aged man from France, and I'm very passionate about computer stuff. Which doesn't necessarily make me an expert.

I'm currently in the process of building a new rig, to replace my old (but still working against all odds ) Core i3 530 & Windows 7 rig.
Yes, I'm still a Win 7 user... for the moment. I've been delaying this, but in a few weeks I'll be making the big jump to Win 11.
I'm currently getting used to Win 11 on my GF's laptop (a nice Asus Zenbook 14 Flip OLED with a 5900HX).

Honestly I'm a Win 7 fan. I run a heavily customized Win 7 that suits my needs just about perfectly.
Among other things, I'm using a particular dark theme (SkullTrail by X3remes) that is possibly the best dark theme I've ever experienced. Visually it's just perfect for everyday use. Here's how it looks (don't mind the start menu, I've changed it anyway):



Honestly I don't need anything more. But sadly my rig is getting seriously old, and I can't stay on Win 7 forever, because of lack of support (OS and apps). So I'll soon be installing a fresh Win 11 from scratch...

... but right after that (and after a full OS image backup just in case), there will be some heavy customization again: one of my goals with Win 11 is to make it look and behave close enough to my current Win 7 (start menu, dark theme for native AND non-native apps, icons, shortcuts, context menus...) while retaining all the nice Win 11 assets.

Of course SkullTrail just doesn't exist for Win 11 (its dev stopped working on it about 12 years ago ). And unfortunately Win 11's default dark theme doesn't feel just as good. So I guess I'll have to find another dark theme (unless a Win 7 theme can be magically adapted to Win 11 somehow?). As for the rest of the system, I've already found some tools and hacks that go in the right direction.

I'll probably have a couple questions on that customization side. Well, maybe a bit more than a couple.

See you around hopefully!

Jose Hidalgo said:

I'm currently in the process of building a new rig, to replace my old (but still working against all odds ) Core i3 530 & Windows 7 rig.
Yes, I'm still a Win 7 user... for the moment. I've been delaying this, but in a few weeks I'll be making the big jump to Win 11.
I'm currently getting used to Win 11 on my GF's laptop (a nice Asus Zenbook 14 Flip OLED with a 5900HX).

Honestly I'm a Win 7 fan. I run a heavily customized Win 7 that suits my needs just about perfectly.

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Welcome to Eleven Forum.

You've come to the right place, there are plenty here who heavily customize their Windows 11. As soon as you ask a few questions they'll be along to offer help and support. Not me though, I only lightly customise mine

Well, the line between "lightly" and "heavily" is blurry sometimes
But yeah, we'll see how far I'm able to go. I'll just say that for me, well-known apps like StartAllBack are just the beginning

Jose Hidalgo said:

Well, the line between "lightly" and "heavily" is blurry sometimes
But yeah, we'll see how far I'm able to go. I'll just say that for me, well-known apps like StartAllBack are just the beginning

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Welcome Jose.
There's a lot to customize in W11 and a lot utilities for it. Don't know about that particular one but even MS is into it. For instance they just released Bliss theme from Windows XP. It's also easier to maintain dark mode and judging by insider versions there will be even more of it. Also there's still good stuff same as in W7, Control panel, Device and disk management etc. Although there's tendency to redo them to new style a lot of those are just duplicated.
PS. You might have just missed the boat for free upgrade to W11 from W7, MS just curtailed it a few weeks ago.

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Hi everybody.

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Gidday mate. Welcome here.

CountMike said:

PS. You might have just missed the boat for free upgrade to W11 from W7, MS just curtailed it a few weeks ago.

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Well, it's not that I missed it: I'm happy with my current W7 rig as it is :)
I'll be installing W11 on a new rig that I'm building, but I'll still keep my old rig for other purposes.

Welcome to Eleven Jose Hidalgo You might also check out http://virtualcustoms.net for theming

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Jose Hidalgo said:

Well, it's not that I missed it: I'm happy with my current W7 rig as it is :)
I'll be installing W11 on a new rig that I'm building, but I'll still keep my old rig for other purposes.

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Hello, Jose.

Welcome to the forum.

Jose Hidalgo said:

Well, it's not that I missed it: I'm happy with my current W7 rig as it is :)
I'll be installing W11 on a new rig that I'm building, but I'll still keep my old rig for other purposes.

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Welcome to the crew. You're in good company. There are a few us here who own 7/11s and I happen to be one of them :)

Hi everyone, Posted my own thread. Didn't realize there was the sticky thread.

ilovehorses34 said:

Hi everyone, Posted my own thread. Didn't realize there was the sticky thread.

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Hi and welcome