Here's a cool little personal trick of mine, that I've been doing for years. Admittedly, I'm a bit shallow when it comes to GUI's (the looks of a program's interface), and like my apps to look as "State of the Art" as can be.

So, like me, you probably have some old programs sitting on your hard drive that the company or author decided to stop development on, also known as "Abandonware", or for some reason, they just decided not to make it look as good as it can. Many software authors are good programmers, but they have no eye for design and attractive interfaces.