On Sat, 05 Jan 2019 16:11:12 -0000, "Commander Kinsey"
wrote:

On Sat, 05 Jan 2019 02:49:38 -0000, T wrote:

On 1/4/19 5:57 PM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
Of the old people I know, 1/4 like Windows 10 and say "why not have the latest", 1/4 like older versions for no reason other than they're quite odd, 1/4 don't care which they use, and 1/4 don't have a computer and would never touch one with a bargepole. One of the latter was quite surprised when I printed off an instruction manual for her washing machine and didn't have to pay for it. She couldn't understand how Hotpoint could provide the manual for free. In the end I said it cost me 10p in paper.

I deal with a lot of retired folks that just don't want to
learn anything new. So far I have always been able to help
them, but with M$ playing hard ball with older versions of
Windows, that may change.

All the windows versions look pretty similar to me. So the start menu changes slightly, so what? You can always adjust it to the way you prefer.

I have a few on Fedora and Xfce configured to look like XP.
They can't tell the difference.

Classic Shell is a very good bit of freeware to make any Windows version look exactly like any other Windows version.



"Exactly" is too strong a word. But yes, it can make Windows 10 look a
lot like Windows 7.

Classic Shell is a very good choice, but in my opinion, Start 10 is
even better. Start 10 isn't freeware, but it's close enough--$4.99
USD, and it comes with a 30-day free trial.