[kevin_thibedeau]

You can switch Win7 to classic theme and pretend it's an improved Win95. That's what I do in my VMs since I don't need to be burning cycles and RAM on eyecandy.

[supertrope]

Ironically in Vista and newer the GUI is GPU accelerated and switching to the classic theme switches from GPU acceleration to CPU rendered.

[froggit]

But isn't this somewhat moot in a lot of VMs considering they often lack GPU acceleration?

[supertrope]

I casually use VirtualBox and GPU acceleration works.