| Theory: After the Vista disaster, Microsoft *threw together* Win7 in
| a big hurry. Now they want to flush the Win7 pile by forcing us all
| to Win10.
|

I don't think many people would agree with that.
Back in the early-mid 2000s MS was working on
something like Metro, which they were calling Longhorn.
They had a plan to remake Windows as a sandboxed
trinket-app system running on top of .Net, which
in turn would run on top of Windows. Only Microsoft
would be able to actually access the system files --
like tablets and phones now.

The problem was that a .Net layer on top of the OS
was so bloated and resource hungry that they simply
couldn't make it work with the hardware of the time.
By about 2005 they decided to cut their losses and do
a "Longhorn reset". Vista was a relatively new version
of NT that was put together between that time and 2007.
Win7 is basically just Vista with some rough edges
removed. Most notably, people can adjust the nag
and restriction level in Win7, making it somewhat less
safe, but more usable and far less irritating. Metro is
pretty much what Longhorn was meant to be, albeit
a somewhat less ambitious version.

The move to Win10 is the latest, most extensive version
of what MS has tried to do with Active Desktop, Passport,
Hailstorm, Longhorn, SPOT watches and Metro -- Windows
as a service, not a tool. That's not a theory. It's been
clearly articulated in recent years by Microsoft, which
now call themselves a services and devices company. They
no longer even include software in that description.

| Incidentally, I *never* touch the registry manually or by any jokester
| "Fix It" program. I do use Avast! and three junk cleaners that work.
| It's incredible how verdant capitalism pushes adware.
|

You might find it worth your while to look into
some of those "jokester fix-its". Some of them could
help you to put a serviceable lock on your front door,
so to speak. What you're doing instead is to ignore
system maintenance while hiring several resource-hungry
thugs to help you kick out all the riff-raff who are
getting in. That's not a very efficient way to keep
house. The riff-raff often leave a mess behind, and
the thugs may end up breaking some china. At best
you've got a noisy, busy house unnecessarily.

I shudder to even imagine what kind of dubious
stuff you're installing to get so much adware hanging
around. Crapware isn't really an effect of "capitalism".
Usually it's a result of trying to get something for
nothing. Much of the Internet is built on the flim
flam model that exploits people's greed. You try to
grab a freebie trinket that's being held out while
the other person tries to pick your pocket, hoping
you'll be distracted by the trinket. Both sides are
trying to cheat the other.