Have you tried any alternative windows shells yet? (as in full desktop replacements) I remember being quite happy running bluebox around the win2k era, but it seems there&#x27;s still a few that work with recent versions.<p>Projects like <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;litestep.info&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;litestep.info&#x2F;</a> for example (it can be reskinned so it doesn&#x27;t look like early 2000s unix)