Making Win10 look and act like Win7

johnhoh · 04 Jun 2019

Lance1 said:

OK!! I Bit The Bullet..

Congrats Lance. What you have is a W10 system where microsoft is banned from intrusion thanks to sledgehammer. Pretty cool. Myself I prefer W10 to look and work exactly like a carbon-copy of W7, which requires all the winaero tweaker tweaks.

Lance1 · 04 Jun 2019

johnhoh said:

Congrats Lance. What you have is a W10 system where microsoft is banned from intrusion thanks to sledgehammer. Pretty cool. Myself I prefer W10 to look and work exactly like a carbon-copy of W7, which requires all the winaero tweaker tweaks.

YA! I,m thinking of running that this morning. I'll post a screenshot.

cornemuse · 04 Jun 2019

Next make 10 look/act like XP!!!!
At least similar, each new version is sooo different from the last. I have 10 on two comps, have not used it (on either) for a year. Have not used 7 in months, I allus have figured out how to make XP serve my purposes.

-c-

(FWIW, In case anyone ever wondered, my avatar is 'floppy disk #1 of 17 to install "Chicago" precurser to W 95)

Megahertz07 · 07 Jun 2019

When win 10 was announced in 2015 I joined the Insiders program and also Windows 10 Help Forums.
As I didn't like Win 10 (I do have a HDD with Win 10 Pro with v1903), I remain using Win 7 HP as my main OS (also have Lubuntu on another partition)
On last Monday I logged into tenforums.com to see what are the main problems facing Win 10 users.
I was astonished to find so many problems related to Win 10 "bugs".
Can imagine those who needs windows to daily work facing problems just because M$ didn't do their homework.
And when those "bugs" are patched and fixed, Win 10 updates to a new version that brings new "bugs".
That may explain why, even with the free "upgrade" 35% of all computers still remain running win 7. (win 10 has now 45%)
Operating system market share

teckneeculler · 06 Jul 2019

Megahertz07 said:

...That may explain why, even with the free "upgrade" 35% of all computers still remain running win 7. (win 10 has now 45%)
Operating system market share

Actually, the chart shows: (June 2019)

W10 - 40.28%
W7 - 38.3%
W8.1 - 4.56%
Mac - 3.32% (OS X 10.14)
WXP - 3.24%
Linux - 1.51%

I suspect that many computer users are unaware that it's possible to keep W7 running.

johngalt · 06 Jul 2019

The hardest part is for people who buy new hardware and are unable to get device drivers running on the older OSs. My machine was built in 2011, and while I've upgraded some components, namely video card and internal storage, the bulk of what I have can actually still be used on Win7.

However, I prefer WinX to Win7 - the backend stuff alone makes WinX more than worth it. I have all tiles turned off, using a start menu that is similar in look and function to Win7, but the enhancements made to things like Task Manager make 3rd party solutions not be a necessity any longer, just a convenience. The enhancements to other facets, like the Windows File Explorer (copying / moving files, detecting duplicates, etc.) make it a godsend over the old Win7 Explorer and it's sheer lack of usability when encountering duplicate file names, much less show extremely little information on progress bars when copying / moving.

To each his / her own. I'll take the backend enhancements over the older limited OS any day.

As for installation metrics, if you look just at June 2019, you get Operating system market share

Lance1 · 07 Jul 2019

Hi johngalt! Can't see your system Pic's! Time for an Update!

johngalt · 08 Jul 2019

Thanks for the alert - that link is so old now lol.

The album should be fixed within 15 minutes of this post.

johnhoh · 08 Jul 2019

johngalt said:

The album should be fixed within 15 minutes of this post.

What does your L stand for in John L Galt?

Lance1 · 08 Jul 2019

johngalt said:

Thanks for the alert - that link is so old now lol.

The album should be fixed within 15 minutes of this post.

Nice pic's! Did that RAD come damaged??