Win 10 - oh boy, she's ugly

Almot wrote:

LittleBill wrote:
classic shell makes 10 pretty tolerable.

Have just found it yesterday, thanks.
Google up "win 10 start menu" and dozens of entries come up, articles on how to fix it and other things that make Win 10 more "usable". Sounds like for many people it is less usable than Win 7.

A lot to fix. Many complain on narrow scroll bar, especially in tablets. I found the entry in Registry and changed the value, it helped a little.

In Win 7 all "windy" apps and groups like Ease of Access, Accessories etc were grouped into Accessories - fine, you don't need them often. In Win 10 they are separated. Run is now hidden - in Win 7 it was displayed in Accessories outside other folders, this makes sense because Run you use more often. Things like Phone or Mail in Win 10 are listed separately and permanently - not too many people dial a phone from desktop.

After "anniversary update" all stupid (or useless to me) apps came back, like Solitaire or 3D Builder. I uninstalled them but am afraid they will re-appear again with another major update.

I didn't intend to take the Win 10 upgrade to my 8.1 desktop, but my desktop developed some severe problems that looked like they could be caused by a virus, but none of the three anti-virus programs I tried could clear up the problem.

This isn't a "virus", this is M$. Hundreds of KB's (updates), some of them doing more harm than good, you can find the list of bad ones and restore your system to earlier point if you like. Wait until you get tons of updates from Win 10, and it will slow down too.

Good 3-rd party antivir is a must anyway. Malware Megabyte, AVG, ADWcleaner, Zemana - they are good even in free version (Zemana isn't free, only 30 days trial). In Win 7 I was keeping AVG for permanent protection and run free Mega and ADW once in a while. Mega finds more than AVG but free Mega won't run as a permanent protection, you have to run it when needed. Funny, last week ADW found some "browser tune up" that was installed by AVG and slowed down the browser :)

Thanks. Re updates, for the last year, I had done regular research on the "updates to be avoided", and I carefully avoided any and all updates that were questionable. Even so, as I said, my machine developed major problems that not even a "reset" would cure. My only out was to try the Win 10 upgrade, and for now, that has made my desktop usable again. I use some of the anti virus you mentioned, also Malware Bytes and SuperAntiSpyware.