Windows 10 is Garbage.. I want 7 back..

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You would need to determine if your computer can run Windows 7.
You need to purchase a license for Windows 7
You would need to perform a custom install.

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Before you think about installing Windows 7 on your computer, you should consider .

• Does Windows 7 have drivers for your computer’s hardware?
• Are you okay with losing all the additional that was installed on your computer?
• Are you okay with voiding your computer’s warranty and losing access to technical support?
• Are you satisfied with your technical skills to perform a clean install?
• Are you willing to pay for a Windows 7 license?

If your answer to all the above is ‘yes’ then you might as well go ahead and install Windows 7. But if all the answers are ‘yes’ I would wonder why you’re posting here in the first place.

Something else you might consider: For all its faults — real and perceived — Windows 10 is considerably more secure than Windows 7. For example: Almost all WannaCry victims were running Windows 7

If you really want to know how to have Windows 10 running correctly on your computer, it’s no secret, and has been explained here many times. Rather than repeat what has already been written, I’ll summarize it for you. Here are the keys to Windows 10 success:

• Hardware that is supported on Windows 10.
• A clean install.
• Installed software that is supported on Windows 10.
• Learning how to use Windows 10 correctly and wisely.
• Daily backups.

Windows 10 is garbage

I seriously thought they would’ve learned something from Windows 8. It was such a step backwards in design that it’s insane it was ever released in the first place. The UI is way too opaque yet displays so little relevant information. It feels like it was built for people whose fingers surpassed the size of their ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ heads because these buttons are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ HUGE.

Secondly is the cpu-raping amount of bloatware that comes with this half-developed abortion of an «update»: Have you ever wanted an AI that reads your history and chews up all your memory while sitting in the background? Guess what, you can’t disable it by hitting a button now! You have to manually change it in the registry and it will STILL lurk around in Task Manager eating your RAM. The biggest complaint of Win8 was how MS was trying to make computers feel like handheld devices. Everything is oversimplified yet navigating it feels like trying to climb through a tunnel that’s lined with barbwire.

Edge was one of the few things I liked about this update and it’s still beaten by the far-superior Chrome. There’s also less customisability, and much of it requires more registry editing. It’s totally not disorienting as hell to hit start and have a billion ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ads flood your screen.

TL;DR: Win10 bad and too big and discount HAL9000 AI is watching me fap volvo pls fix

every windows needed to be customized. windows 10 makes the most of your hardware, therefore once you tweak it how you like, it’s the best.

What exactly would make it “ironic garbage?”

Down to personal preferences I guess. I love Windows 10, especially after the garbage that was windows 8/8.1.

If you want to cut back on W10 background processes to free up ram & cpu, Google «Black Vipers Windows 10 Services», and theres a bunch of information on how to close nearly every unnecessary service.

I didn’t read your post or the replies, but I agree that Windows 10 is a huge joke. Windows 10 has been around for four years, yet they broke and ruined so many things that worked perfectly in Windows 8.1 (that everyone says sucks) and that worked perfectly in every version of Windows before. So, in other words Microsoft regressed. It’s like Microsoft hired a bunch of middle school kids. Normal people are too stupid to notice these tremendously huge flaws. I’ve found workarounds for some, using third party programs that I didn’t need before. But some things absolutely cannot be fixed no matter what, and these are things that SHOULD work no matter what but are broken because of their incompetency. Most people are too stupid and are just «sheep» who just mimic everyone else and say whatever the majority thinks and agrees with. But I know as a profound expert that Windows 10 is seriously messed up. But regardless of how broken and despicable Windows 10 is, I do feel a tiny bit happy that I am on the most up to date service. So four years from now, if I buy a new laptop, I will be 100% fully familiar with its OS because I will have already had it on my current laptop. So I guess that is one good thing. That plus it probably gets more security dates and fixes than previous versions. But it is a huge disappointment in many regards. There are some small things that I like about it, but the things that are most important to me are grossly nonfunctional.

Windows 10 is Garbage

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Disagree with your advice / opinion.

W10 runs all my programs OK.

Can import photo’s 3 cameras & 2 telephones.

Maybe if you explain your problems & the forum maybe able to assist.

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Just as I stated, Windows 10 will not let me import photos from my Kodak DX 4530 camera. Windows 7 would let me import the photos.

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WARNING: Do not upgrade to Windows 10. It is garbage. It will not let a lot of programs to run. It will not allow photos to be imported from a digital camera no matter what brand of camera is used. Again, DO NOT UPGRADE TO WINDOWS 10.

You’ve tried all brands of cameras? That must have taken a lot of time. My camera works just fine. I can import images via USB cable or Wi-Fi or I can take the card out of the camera and use a card reader. There are some known problems with some cameras, but most will work just fine with Windows 10. You don’t say what programs you’re having problems with, but every OS «will not let a lot of programs to run.» A huge number of people have upgraded to Windows 10 without any problems. Just because you are unfortunately part of a small minority doesn’t mean that Windows 10 is «garbage.»

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While I don’t agree with all the scare tactics on this forum I refuse to «upgrade» to windows 10 for several reason.

First of all I love the windows 7 interface and smooth control of my machine it gives me. Windows 10 feels more like something designed by apple, a further extension of 8 that takes more of the control away from the user and makes my pc control more like a smartphone device and less like a pc. I like to have as much control over my machine as possible. I think windows 7 has a great balance of user friendly interface with user access behind the curtain for advanced users while later iterations of the platform remove that ease of control.

Secondly, operating systems should be designed for PCs and mobile devices separately. Designing an interface for mobile devices first then trying to tweak it to work for PCs is worse than backwards thinking. In my mind the foundation of the OS, the very philosophy behind it’s design is flawed making the OS doomed from the start.

My third issue with this os is the file browsing system. I have done everything I can with registry tweaks to kill the «libraries» system I hated so much with windows 7 and this new file browser looks even worse. I hate the look, the arrangement and even the «frequent files» aspect of it. The whole thing is just awful from start to finish. It is obvious that the file browser was designed around mobile touch controls and not the mouse.

My fourth issue with windows 10 comes in the way it was marketed. They sneak this «program» onto your windows 7 OS via an unlabeled update that attempts to aggressively bully you into taking the windows 10 plunge. Their marketing campaign reeks strongly of adware and I find the whole thing rather unethical. I removed the program which required manually taking ownership of files within the computer, ending the task and deleting files. This is not even close to what I consider ethical business practices.

Lastly I hate the aesthetics. While the look of an operating system alone isn’t enough to keep me from «upgrading» it is one more thing in a small litany of issues I have with windows 10. The flat «metro» design opposed to glassy futuristic design of 7 just doesn’t do it for me. I keep thinking I’m looking at an interface right out of south park. That combined with the overly simplistic menus gives the whole interface a kindergarten «my first computer by fisher price» sort of vibe I just cant get behind.

On a side note my mother in law decided to «upgrade» to windows 10 from 7 only to have it destroy her OS and refuse to boot past the bios. I had to recover her files by yanking the hard drive then completely re-install her windows 7 os and all over her programs.

Windows 10 has been hot garbage.

So where to begin. Ive been a lifelong windows user and avid supporter of microsoft breaking antitrust legislation. Because they had working products. And I saw apple as the brand of those that refuse to open a pc.

A few months ago i bought a new computer that had windows 7 , everything worked fine and all was well as expected.

Then came windows 10 update notification. «Wow heres this new OS that for the first time ever, microsoft is giving it away for free.» Nope nothing worth having is really free. And i was correct.

After disabling all auto updates and notifications for windows 10 ,I enjoyed my windows 7 life for a few more months even though for some reason windows 10 updates somehow just kept ignoring my explicit refusal, and attempts to stop «asking» that I upgrade.

Imagine my shock after months of refusal, I take some time away from my PC and go on a trip, when I return behold, my computer somehow has updated otself to windows 10. Amazing!

I search forums to ask how to revert to my old OS and afyer following the directions provided by microsoft, to my surprise, no such option was available. Thats funny.

«Well here we are» I said, surely windows 10 cant be that bad. I was wrong.

Within 3 months the problems began to arise. Slow boot ups, unresponsive settings menu, pictures and videos not loading , random crashes. I could have sworn I downloaded a lot of malware. If only that was the case. Malware can be fixed.

Then it happened. A black screen of pure death.

Well maybe if I press f8. oh wait that setting was removed. So my computer has to be working to fix it. Interesting. Ok so I call microsft hotline. After being transfered to some second world country. A friendly indian man informed me there was nothing he could do on his end so I was to go to a microsoft store. Fine, thats only 2 hours away. Away I go.

After being assured by these very professional and surely conpetant staff that it was a simple corruption with the unwanted update, theyd be able to save my data and simply reinstall windows 10. I remember clearly asking, ARE YOU GOING TO DELETE MY DATA. To which they replied of course not we have way to preserve the data for you to transfer.

Long story short, he lied. Just like that years of compiled and accumulated from past pc data was gone. I mean my decade old prom photos and the like. Music from local bands that long broke up,work documents , transcripts,programs everything went poof.

Interestingly this was framed as my fault for having not backed it up ,due to the unexpected possible occurance of a forced OS upgrade destroying my 700 dollar computer. Boy, way to take accountability there. Maybe I should get that drone strike insurance. It must be nice knowing that you can screw customers with no repercussions.

Well certainly they can at least give me back microsoft office. Haha nope.

fine so i take my now perfectly clean slate of a computer home, and things seem to work far better since the upgrade. Im sure i can move on and rebuild. Then the updates happened.

seeing as turning off auto updates was just an illusion of control. Is it any suprise that yet another forced upgrade began the process of degradation anew. Disk rate at 100% , slow boot times, videos and picture not loading, settings unresponsive, then the crashing.

Now here I am with a brick of a computer caught in a start up repair loop. Ive tried every fix I could think of, for a time I thought maybe its just this computer. After all the friendly gentlemen at the microsoft assured me this was just a result of my PC just not being quite uo the task of working with such a grand and glorious operating system as windows 10.

Then I read the forums. I would go into detail as to what ive learned about the customer feedback of this flagship product. But lets say «lawsuits» and «backlash» were terms thrown around frequently.

As a windows customer and systems engineer ive tried every fix listed, and nothing offers a permanent or temporary solution to the many problems caused by windows 10 forcing itself onto my computer. As it seems microsoft adds new problems themselves whenever they please. I have no other options but to tell this long winded tale of dissapointment at the customer service of a company I have long supported.