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Calmira! It’s a third party shell replacement for Program Manager that provides a Win9x “feel”.

http://www.calmira.de/

I much prefer WPS4WIN which implements OS/2's WorkPlace Shell on Windows 3.x. Here are some screenshots: http://toastytech.com/guis/wps.html

I combine this with a Windows 3.x tool called MAKEOVER which lets you edit the window buttons in your video driver. This lets me make the window buttons in the Windows apps look like OS/2 buttons.

Wow, I had forgotten about those weird tabbed notebooks. :)

Reminds me of the shell replacement Microsoft released to provide a Win95-style UI in Windows NT 3.51[1]. I ran it for a while in 95/96. Somewhere in my closet I still have the CD-ROM pack with the OS and the addon...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT_3.51#NewShell

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