Whenever possible, I revert my entire desktop back to Win2K. Seriously. It's easy in Win7, it's mostly possible in Win10. I don't run Vista or Win8 period, so I don't know how tough those would be.
Yep, I had Vista for a very short while, hated it. I never did get windows 8 so no idea what folks had to,go through with that system lol, I understand it wasn’t very good. Xp was pretty O-k- I did like that one (well. I got used to,it I should say)
Windows 20 is meh- missing lots of stuff and control. Hate that things like card games are now ad infused apps. I have it on a backup drive incase something fails with my main Linux and windows 7 system, but I keep,10 offline so it doesn’t update and wreck something. A few times I made mistake of going online, and it of course automatically tried updating, running into problems, some things didn’t update- so I just did a system revert- but likely have junk from the updates left on the system tucked somewhere obscure. Evidently you can still run the trial of 10, but you can’t update it or customize it- that’s fine, it’s just as a backup test os anyways to see if programs will work or not with it.
Yep, my neighbor loved 2000 too. I tried it briefly, but it seemed a little too techie involved for me if I remember right. I might try it on a vm again though.
While by no means any kind of major issue in life, thank God for free options and thus we need not for be stuck with MS defaults like the Start menu:
default start (Image credit: Microsoft)
OpenShell, Quick Launch and T-Clock menu DesktopComposite image