How To Make Windows 11 Like Window 10?

hsehestedt · Nov 4, 2022

cereberus said:
I think this is an exaggeration - it is hardly crippled, just a few annoying minor features taken away unnecessarily but they do not seriously impact use of OS. If it had forced S Mode on us (say) with no way of getting around it - that would be crippling.

I was annoyed at first but now I do not really notice that much. One great thing about humans is our ability to adapt.

Regarding dumbing down, I agree but I am more annoyed about the lack of serious development these days - it is as if they have run out of ideas (or more likely incapable of imaginative thought).

I agree with these statements. But, don't forget that there are also a lot of useful features ADDED to Windows 11.

If you revert back to Win 10 you are essentially also loosing features - the features now present in Win 11 and absent from 10.

For me, it all comes down to this:

Am I willing to adapt to the features that were removed and are the features that were added more compelling than what was removed?

So which feature set, when viewed as a whole, is more important to me? For me, personally, new features in Win 11 are just way too compelling. Going back to 10 would cause me to loose far more than I loose going from 10 to 11. It is not even close for me

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spapakons · Nov 4, 2022

Sorry if you already have this reply, I didn't have time to read all the posts. The easiest way, that I also did at our work desktop so I don't get in trouble, is to download and install Explorer Patcher. Then go through all the settings carefully and change everything from Windows 11 to Windows 10. You can change the start button, start menu, File Explorer window, network flyout, battery flyout and many more to make it look exactly like Windows 10. You can only see the difference if you go to Settings which have Windows 11 interface and of course on System Info. You can even use Customizer God utility to extract the system icons from the appropriate system files of Windows 10 and then replace the Windows 11 icons. Let me know if you want to tell you which these files are. The only bug I noticed is that there is no Settings icon in start menu. You can access Settings by right-clicking the start button and select Settings from the list of tools.

hdmi · Nov 5, 2022

spapakons said:
The only bug I noticed is that there is no Settings icon in start menu.

There is.

spapakons · Nov 5, 2022

I cannot tell from your photo, but it looks like you haven't changed the start menu to Windows 10.

Sorry, you did

oldschool · Nov 8, 2022

Stigg said:
Microsoft appear to be dumbing it down to appeal to new users,

Possibly ...

Stigg said:
They're looking for new users. The long term users will eventually die out. They're looking to the future, I guess.

... probably

cereberus said:
I think this is an exaggeration - it is hardly crippled, just a few annoying minor features taken away unnecessarily but they do not seriously impact use of OS. If it had forced S Mode on us (say) with no way of getting around it - that would be crippling.

I was annoyed at first but now I do not really notice that much. One great thing about humans is our ability to adapt.

Definitely!

spapakons · Nov 9, 2022

Appearance can be made almost the same as Windows 10 with Explorer Patcher which also enables the right-click menu of the taskbar. There is a Registry patch to always show the full list when you right-click on the desktop. Also the start menu can be set to the left if you don't like the default centered position. No worries