<story><title>Bonzi Buddy</title><url>https://bonzi.link/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shireboy</author><text>Geeze, that&amp;#x27;s a blast from the past.  You know it&amp;#x27;s funny- I used to periodically go looking for things to customize my desktop experience.  This, those little dogs and cats, Rainmeter, Amiga workbench hacks, etc. etc.  Nowadays- I supposed finally burned by enough malware and having become curmudgeonly- I want the most minimal &amp;quot;plain vanilla&amp;quot; setup I can get and pride myself in hardly ever installing _anything_.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrfusion</author><text>I miss that sense of wonder from the early computing days.</text></comment>
<story><title>Bonzi Buddy</title><url>https://bonzi.link/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shireboy</author><text>Geeze, that&amp;#x27;s a blast from the past.  You know it&amp;#x27;s funny- I used to periodically go looking for things to customize my desktop experience.  This, those little dogs and cats, Rainmeter, Amiga workbench hacks, etc. etc.  Nowadays- I supposed finally burned by enough malware and having become curmudgeonly- I want the most minimal &amp;quot;plain vanilla&amp;quot; setup I can get and pride myself in hardly ever installing _anything_.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wolpoli</author><text>One great program that I recommend for Windows users looking for a plain vanilla set up is Open-Shell-Menu. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;open-shell.github.io&amp;#x2F;Open-Shell-Menu&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;open-shell.github.io&amp;#x2F;Open-Shell-Menu&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It replaces the always animating Windows 10 start menu with something more simple.</text></comment>