lightfoot wrote:
Two things for all your computer experts. 1) W10 is a for the most part, a front end to W7. 2) To stop W10 from restarting all the time, go to Settings, select Update & Security, select Restart Options, under Schedule time , turn it to off. You will now get a notification in the Action center that an update needs a restart. You can now close all open programs, save any files you have open and then do the restart.
#1, I think you have that backwards.
Win7 is the BACKEND, not the "front end"..
Front end is what you SEE, back end is the underpinnings that you DON'T SEE.
However, in reality Win7 and Win 10 have many changes between the two that simply can not easily be returned back to Win 7 days.
MS in their wisdom has lost all sight of reality and does not want to admit defeat in the Phone and Tablet OS front.. They tried to make a PC desktop user conform to the limitations of a phone or Tablet touch screen by stripping out the familiar desktop/start menu and giving birth to the ever kludged "Metro Tiles"..
While you can bring back SOME of the Desktop and Start look and feel, there ARE many other features that simply cannot be brought back to the UI. Most mods must be done via registry (which home Edition no longer has a Registry Editor), or Powershell line commands..
Additionally there are features which just plain no longer exist and cannot ever be brought back unless MS feels like including the feature in the next release (don't hold your breath on that).
MS does reserve the right to REMOVE ANY PROGRAM/APP from your PC USING WIN10 AT ANY TIME EVEN IF YOU BOUGHT THE PROGRAM/APP if they think it may cause instability or they feel you have violated a license agreement..
So, in essence Win 10 has very little of Win7 behind it.
