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I bought an extra hard drive for my desktop when I was having some trouble with the original one. I reloaded the Windows 7 Hard Drive Backed up Image onto the new drive.

I switched the new drive out and put the old on in, intentionally to try out Windows 10.

One word: AWFUL!

I like the classic (XP) style, but all the new Win10 has is the modern crap. Window frames were very thin and difficult to recognize when windows overlapped. Slidebars were to thin the mouse pointer had trouble latching onto them. I have hated the ribbon menus since it was introduced around Win8 or so.

It didn't take me long to switch the hard drives and back to Win7. Even now, when I want to do some ‘real’ computing with Word or Excel, I load the old XP ‘97 version because I can find the functions I want. The new ribbon menus are clumsy, gaudy, inefficient and in some programs take up 1/3 of the screen real estate. They are even worse on my laptop.

I am staying with Win7 as long as possible. However, I have noticed some ‘entities’ are requiring browser/program updates and will not work with the Windows 7 versions.

20 posted on 04/17/2016 8:09:37 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: TomGuy
What I find to be the most annoying "FAD" is the GD search.

When it doesn't work, you have to go kill at least one process to get it going again.

Heck, updating a relative small directory may take more than just a moment.

25 posted on 04/17/2016 1:10:35 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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#20 Here is a plugin for the better menu layout.

Brings Back Familiar Menus and Toolbars to Microsoft Word 2010, 2013 and 2016
Classic Menu for Word (there is a link there for the whole Office program)
http://www.addintools.com/office2010/word/


46 posted on 04/17/2016 6:18:39 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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