Comment by a1o
12 hours ago
Do you have that Windows 3.1 version that came with the Compaq that had the DE that was like a paper folder instead of an empty desktop, and that you could put the icons in the different tabs of the paper folder?
12 hours ago
Do you have that Windows 3.1 version that came with the Compaq that had the DE that was like a paper folder instead of an empty desktop, and that you could put the icons in the different tabs of the paper folder?
Your comment reminds me of HP's obscure EFI OS called QuickLook. I would guess there are a lot of obscure OSs out there.
I'd watch this if I were you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssob-7sGVWs
Oh, yeah! I think ASUS also had something like that at some point.
I believe you are speaking of Tabworks?
I had to Google and it does look like it, I remember the computer would boot into it and it also had space for a few (three?) icons outside the tabs (like in the “desktop”). It was a cool interface!
I don't think I've heard of an alternate shell/launcher like that before. Do you remember what it was called?
Windows still (well, Win2000) lets you build a custom shell, just replace explorer.exe (and a bunch of other work).
I've heard of custom shells for Windows before, but not that specific one