Why do people think Vista Classic looks ugly?


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I remember people using the Classic style more than anything and soon as Vista hit's people hate it. I never understood cause it's completely the same as xp's version minus the new start logo. I dont find it ugly at all.

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Because the Classic theme and the Vista/7 UI don't go together well. Look at an Explorer window - hideous back/forward buttons, grey background for the breadcrumb bar (why MS, why?). Or in 7 look at the 'superbar' when using Classic - it's just fugly.

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Because the Classic theme and the Vista/7 UI don't go together well. Look at an Explorer window - hideous back/forward buttons, grey background for the breadcrumb bar (why MS, why?). Or in 7 look at the 'superbar' when using Classic - it's just fugly.

Yeah I know what your talking about. but it's kinda the same way with XP, the Icons are Greyed out as well.

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Yeah I know what your talking about. but it's kinda the same way with XP, the Icons are Greyed out as well.

It was ugly in XP as well.

it never was particularly "pretty" ever though. But back in the win95 days we where just happy to have a GUI :)

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In new start menu, you can click on My Documents/ Music/ Computer to navigate to different folders very quickly. Using the classic start menu in new systems is so painful to me.

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I remember people using the Classic style more than anything and soon as Vista hit's people hate it. I never understood cause it's completely the same as xp's version minus the new start logo. I dont find it ugly at all.

XP came with a very ugly fat blue theme as default, and the other themes included weren't that great either. Which made classic my theme of choice for XP (until I discovered Royale).

Vista comes with a very nice looking UI, and going back to classic after Aero = ugh.

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It looked fine in XP, then came vista and it was alright, but in windows 7 it looks sick. Over size buttons and pixeleated graphics. YUCK

I hope that classic will be replaced with a new "pro" theme. (a cross between the expression blend UI, the office 2007 black theme and the wave 2 style of live services

It CAN be done, if Microsoft wants to do it.

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I guess people have become 'snobbish'. Aero looks great, and going back to something that looks exactly the same as windows 95 I guess is below them :p

Wait, I just called myself a snob xD

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Because it is. Its a horrible blue shade...

We are talking about Windows classic here

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Just to show how ugly it is.

and I also agree that aero basic is ugly (what your talking about)

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I guess people have become 'snobbish'. Aero looks great, and going back to something that looks exactly the same as windows 95 I guess is below them :p

Wait, I just called myself a snob xD

Vista included windows "classic" witch was the old 95 and 98 theme. as well as Windows standard, the 2000 theme. Windows 7 now just has "classic", the old 2000 theme.

The diference between the two is the 9x theme had a darker gray windows and darker blue title bar, and the 2000 was a lot ligher.

That's the Windows 7 classic look? What happened with the classic star menu?

they removed it from Windows 7.

also, in vista, and XP, if you chose to have the classic UI, that doesnt mean you get the classic start menu. For that, you had to go in to the start menu properties.

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Why do they need a new "pro" theme. just use Aero like everyone else.

there's no need to maintain multiple themes, it's a waste of resources, classic so far survives because they can still use basic ontrols without doing extra work. If in the future the windows themes get too advanced to fall back directly on basic controls so more work is needed to make clasic work, expect classic to simply dissapear.

There's no need for a "pro" theme, a low color grey basic controls theme doesn't make you pro.

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We are talking about Windows classic here

Just to show how ugly it is.

and I also agree that aero basic is ugly (what your talking about)

Wow, the 'Shut Down' text's font is System. That should only belong in Windows 3.x!

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Right...

The UI (aero & basic) is the most horrid thing on Vista.

Classic is alright though.

I love aero! The only thing I don't like is that most of the software I install comes with icons that are kinda mismatched - they don't fit in with the "glass" effect.

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