I might end up the same way with Windows 2K/XP, as I’m not planning on upgrading to Vista any time soon. I remember some other Windows 3 GUI enhancements, for example a NeXTSTEP style Dock and Window theme, the equivalent of running an Aqua theme on Windows XP I suppose. Of course that kind of thing is only skin deep and couldn’t solve the real problems with the OS. I remember using Calypso on my 486 back in the late 90’s. Windows 95 was nice, but after OSR2 it just seemed too slow with my 8 MB of RAM (I later spent $80 on a 32MB SIMM to get a whopping 40 megs). Still runs great although the battery quit holding a charge eons ago.
So I installed MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows for Workgroups 3.11 (not to be confused with Windows 3.11), it was so much quicker to boot. It has had PC-DOS 6.3 and Windows 3.11 on it for years. This setup also gave me a pure DOS environment when I needed it for games, unlike Win 95.
There were plenty of programs still available for Windows at the time that enhanced the interface, such as Calypso, WIN32s, patchdrv.zip which allowed one to skin the title bar (I remember there was a port of the Plastic theme from IceWM which eventually sparked my interest in Linux).
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