Subj : Re: Thin client PC to run
To   : Dumas Walker
From : Nightfox
Date : Tue Dec 02 2025 11:17:57

  Re: Re: Thin client PC to run
  By: Dumas Walker to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue Dec 02 2025 08:09 am

 >> I remember Norton Desktop, it was an alternative window manager for Windows
 >> 3.x, looked pretty nice.

 DW> We used that on a couple of machines in an office I was working at in
 DW> 1994.  It made Win 3.x look somewhat like what Win95 would look like a
 DW> couple of years later.  I cannot remember if it had a "start" bar, but it
 DW> did have onscreen icons and, IIRC, was the first time I remember seeing a
 DW> "trash can" on a desktop.  ;)

I don't remember seeing that, but Norton had some pretty cool stuff back then.  I had seen some trash can add-ons for Windows 3.x, but it would have been cool to have that as part of an overall software package like Norton Desktop.

From what I remember, Norton's undelete was the first program I had seen for DOS that would let you undelete a file.

I remember finding some trash can add-ons for Windows 3.x, some which looked like the trash can from Mac OS (System 7 etc.), and at the time I thought it was cool to see add-ons that made Windows look like a Mac (I felt like I could sort of make my Windows setup at home look a bit like the Mac computers that my school had).

I also remember using a Windows 3.1 utility back then that added some stuff to the UI, such as a clock in the titlebar of all apps.  I don't remember what add-on that was though..

Nightfox

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