10 was not usable till after the first service pack and basically most bugs were not fixed till after the third one. RTM was a disaster back then. Start, Settings, Explorer, Cortana, store apps crashing all the time and lets not even mention Edge, lol.
windows 10 is still a nightmare really and windows 11 is no different, both dictate virus software it spies on what you do along with what you can do and what you cant do on a machine that you have paid for and not MS, its just like facebook, twitter ect ect ect just gathering intel on what you say and takes your photos to id yous all, the best system is windows 7 its your independence as to say, I am running windows 11 but I will return to windows 7 soon enough when ive had my fill of it, am old now been around since windows 95, what is annoying is you cant stop them doing what they want on your own machine which you paid for I find this very intruding on our liberties and this is what I hate the most about MS
As yet no. The folder still exists but atm there's no way to restore it to the taskbar, adding toolbars has been removed from the new taskbar. Code: %appdata%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch Update: It may be irrelevant to your post, no idea what you want from the old quick launch bar but I managed to restore Show Desktop from it - to the Taskbar. This post.
Windows 7 is more hassle than it's worth nowadays. Leaving out what's needed to get it running on modern hardware (Ryzen or Skylake without CSM); updates are a whole fun adventure to deal with. Either you accept them all blindly and turn W7 into a similar mess as W10, or you take only specific updates after lengthy research. Linux is a better choice nowadays. Runs on modern hardware without hacks, and handles most mainstream Windows games about as-well as on Windows (if not better).
This is one of the turn offs for me with Windows 11. Quick launch is one of the essential features in Windows I need for my App launcher Spoiler Either Microsoft brings it back or the developer of this software finds a workaround or I find another alternative. Until then this is one of the reasons I'll be sticking to Windows 10 as my main OS
Yes me too, the Quick Launch bar is always the first thing I enable. I'm a Win+X fan in place of your app launcher, and always launch my most used stuff from it. Also Start11 has made Windows 11 tolerable for me, it's highly configurable. Stardock have been quick to release it in Beta, I'm sure StartisBack++, Open Shell etc will follow. The new start menu is awful IMO, if you disable all Recommended stuff and recent files you're left with a whacking great empty space!
This is actually not true (except where it comes to newer hardware). Win7 no longer has feature updates to speak of, and installing/integrating ESU updates in using sysprep is 100x easier than doing the same for Win8.x for example (can't use WU in audit mode for WIn8). I've been maintaining up-to-date Win7 images for many years and it is no harder now than it ever was. Plus, if you use Simplix update pack it already leaves off the various telemetry updates (and it enables/disables ESU updates script automatically). Given that, it's actually about as easy as one can imagine updating an image. It is just that newer hardware will make it harder an harder to install older OS's on, which of course has been the story all along and so is a moot point. Everything depends on what your needs are. If you're a gamer requiring DX12, then it's a no go. If you're not and have 5 PCs that will run Win7 fine and you can do all you need, then Win7 might very well be preferable.