[daniel1212]

For those interested in computing for Christ

[gop4lyf]

What happened to Windows 9?

[Scrambler Bob]

M4L

[rockrr]

10 is a welcome improvement over 8 (or 8.1).

[Carriage Hill]

Thanks for the review, but I’m staying with Win-7 Pro x64.

[VeniVidiVici]

Is this your review? If so, very well done!

I’m convinced MS skipped Windows 9 in order to be “equal” to OSX. So that the masses won’t think the Mac more advanced because of its higher release number

[daniel1212]

Edit. WTP did installed the modem. The problem must be with Phone Tray Free (discontinued).

[catnipman]

No one in industry, manufacturing, government, military, business, or the enterprise will care one whit about Windows 10 unless it’s a more productive operating system for the vast majority of their PC users. That really will be the sole metric of the success of Windows 10: is it compatible with the hundreds of millions of current PC applications and their users and is it substantially BETTER than Windows 7.

[Alex Murphy]

PFL

[dennisw]

bing

[Elsie]

My first home computer had 256 BYTES of ram.

It's still in the basement...

...somewhere.

[minnesota_bound]

Windows 10 is 97% Windows 7 with some added Windows 8 bits.

When using a theme I want to change the color of the icon text or get rid of the fuzzy drop shadows.

In Windows 7 you can fix this:
You can go to the Control Panel> System> Advanced system settings> Performance> Uncheck “Use drop shadows...
and “Animate controls and Elements Inside Windows” to get rid of the white letters and drop shadow. This happens when you click Apply.

I ended up switching to the Classic theme and using a program called Iconoid to have black text on the taskbar program buttons. It is found at http://www.sillysot.com

You lose the Aero popup preview from the taskbar program buttons if you use classic theme. White is hard on my eyes and the themes all have white text.

That does work in Windows 10 but you have to restart the computer. There is no classic in Windows 10

[usconservative]

Very thorough! Bookmarked.

[daniel1212]

Update. I had to stop using WTP due to the old HD I has installed it on crashing and making sounds of imminent failure. Later i may copy it all to another HD, and God willing I may add updates to this thread. WTP does seem to use less RAM and is a bit faster.

As for other issues not mentioned, while it seems the system tray notification settings do better at remembering what you choose, the Quick Launch utterly fails to remember the order of icons that you place them in.

And the Start menu should go further back to XP classic style which Classic Shell enables. Below is how mine looked under W/8.1

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