Download some junk

Here's some random stuff to clog up your hard drive. Or SSD. Or NVME. Or MMC. Whatever you're using.

Classic Windows Screensavers: A collection of oldschool Windows screensavers including 3.1, 95, and XP, among others, all verified to still work on Windows 10. Yes, the maze one still works. Check out ME's windows.scr, that one's unironically cool even by modern standards.

Classic MS Paint: The old MS Paint from XP and earlier that was so simple. In newer versions of Windows, you can either replace your existing C:\Windows\system32\mspaint.exe with this one, or name this one something else and add it alongside. Works fine on Windows 10, probably works on 11, too.

Classic Windows Notepad: The REAL version of Notepad, not the sodomized-by-AI overly complicated i-spend-more-time-adjusting-than-working version that was recently microshat-out. There's nothing your customers love more than taking something they've relied on for literally decades and bastardizing for the sake of "innovation" right? "Move fast and break things", is that it? Well great, mission accomplished. It's broken. When do you fix it?

Classic Wordpad: The OG Windows Wordpad. I still use Wordpad almost daily. It strikes that perfect sweet spot for writing. It has just enough formatting features (font/size, color, image insertion, alignment), without being overbearing. LibreOffice, Word 365, or whatever the fuck they call Office now, and other full-fledged utility suites often have too many bells and whistles and are distracting. Sometimes I just want to hammer out a lot of words, and go back and do all the cleanup later, but do need at least a bit more than plain unicode.

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