crosire wrote:
Classic Shell doesn't solve the inconsistency, just adds a few UI features (which don't look all that great to be honest). I worked with Windows 10 for 2 months on my desktop and it only brought me headaches, until one day a Windows 10 update destroyed the installation and made the system unbootable. That's when I installed Windows 7 again and haven't had a problem since.
I'm sorry about your problems with Windows 10... However, one way or another, Windows 10 will be THE OS considering it higher adoption rate than Windows 7 did because of how it is. Change is always hard and people hate change, but once you get used to Windows 10, its impossible to go back to any previous version of Windows.
GUI:
After a fresh Windows 10 install, it only takes about 20 minutes to make Windows 10 do 2 things -
look and function like Windows 7. You do have to use either Start10 (best IMHO, costs some $5) or Classic Shell or similar program and you have to CUSTOMIZE settings within the program to get get Windows 10 Start to look the way you want it to. Here's my Desktop:
You also have to go through many Windows 10 settings and apply several safe .reg tweak files to have that basic raw feel of Windows 7, but
it is very VERY possible and not hard. Once you customize it, change many Windows 10 settings, apply quite a few safe tweaks, you can make your Windows 10 mirror Windows 7 in every way with one exception. That exception is having a classic-looking Control Panel and being forced to have and to use the new overall/general Settings panel. You can't tell me that the panel alone is hard to get used to. IMHO, you don't want to be bothered researching, reading, asking questions, etc. to get the right GUI-adjusting apps, tweaks, and utilities for Windows 10 to make it work for you.
Then you should follow my Guide on how to Tweak Windows 10 ONE TIME and never ever ever again. Here's my Guide -
www.overclock.net/t/1596203/simple-windo...once-and-never-again . The tweaks and settings you want to change are entirely up to you. Some people do not mind Cortana running and I do. Some people do not mind the 10 built-in Windows Store apps that come with Windows 10, but I remove them. I remove a LOT of crap Windows 10 comes with down to bare-bones raw look and raw optimized high-performance snappy functioning. However, its all safe, never caused a problem and everything works because everything essential I leave alone. If you'd like I can tweak your Windows 10 remotely! I do not mind. I think you will lose the result!
As far as an update killing your OS install. You know you'll forever hate me, but IMO such things happen due to user error. For example, sometimes people think that if Windows says "Updating" for 15 minutes without anything moving on the screen, then it means the OS froze - not true at all!
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Have you installed Windows 10 on top of Windows 7? That is a NO-NO! Always make a fresh clean install of the latest OS version onto freshly formatted drive/partition.
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Which tweaks have you used? There are plenty of BAD irreversible tweaks that tend to get packed into a single CMD or BAT or REG file and in the end they may screw your system. It did take me about 3 fresh Windows 10 re-installs before I figured out which tweaks caused issues and all of them were the download-able ones, none were simply Windows 10 settings, which never caused a problem.
I gathered extremely useful and extremely SAFE tweaks that make life much simpler! PM me and I will share them with you!
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Sometimes random software can cause a severe BSOD like that. I HATE Anti-Virus software and never use it because it overtakes your system, slows it down, bloats, sticks itself everywhere, runs in the background and can often cause drastic issues when Windows updates come out due to some incompatibility. AV software is only necessary if you don't know what you're doing or visiting some sketchy Warez or XXX sites or other crap. Only use portable AV and Anti-Spyware programs, like AdwCleaner, Hitman Pro, Rogue Killer and Malware Bytes as the last resort. Another example - earlier version of Acronis True Image 2016 had a super-bug that occurred when I simply disabled Acronis Update service, which caused BSOD upon every boot without any solution other than format and re-install. The problem was not Windows, but Acronis True Image 2016!
Here are the
3 important things you should do in this exact order every so often when you feel something about Windows 10 isn't working right or OS is hanging/freezing, etc (NEVER happens to me unless I overclock too high):
1. Run Chkdsk -f for all drives and partition
2. Open CMD as Admin, paste this line and press enter - DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth (this repairs and cleans OS database and active files)
3. Open CMD as Admin, paste this line and press enter - SFC /ScanNow
DISM RestoreHealth detects the absence of Cortana as an error and re-enables it, so you have to disable it again once you run that command. You should also re-use Disable Mouse Acceleration .reg tweak after you run those 3 things and every time after you get Windows updates.
Sounds like a lot of work? Maybe, but again, you can do it ONE TIME per your life-time and never have to re-do it all again if you follow the guide I posted here -
www.overclock.net/t/1596203/simple-windo...once-and-never-again .