Windows 10: Awful Win10 user interface makes Win10 management a nightmare

Recently a neighbor asked me to help him troubleshoot a printer problem on his Win10 Lenovo laptop, since I've used Windows for decades and am fairly computer-savvy.

But his Win10 user interface was incomprehensible to me. On my Win10 Dell laptop, I have Windows configured with the 'legacy' Windows user interface. But his is a bewildering artificial interface that totally isolates the user from Windows - it took me 45 minutes just to figure out how to make "My Computer" show up on his desktop, and even when it did, it would not even show me his Drive C "Users". His user account is set as Admin, which is not good, so I wanted to create a new 'standard user' account for him...but couldn't figure out how to do it.

His printing problem might have had something to do with the brain-damaged PDF reader app that came with the OS from the Microsoft Store, because the same PDF printed just fine on my Dell laptop. So I tried downloading Acrobat Reader from Adobe. But It would not install because the OS was locked in "S" mode prohibiting installing any non-Microsoft Store apps.

In the end I was totally unable to help him; All my time was spent trying unsuccessfully to figure out his awful user interface.

Now I'm worried about whether some future Microsoft Update is going to wipe out my 'legacy' user interface and automatically impose the same hellish interface on my PC. How can I make sure that doesn't happen?

My Dell runs Win10 Pro 64-bit version 20H2, OS build 19042.804.
Unfortunately I don't know what version my Neighbor's Lenovo has, but his Lenovo is less than a year old.

:)

 

Win10: windows update stuck at never ending loop ?

When in win10:

• Update&security -> Windows update -> Finding update... .... .... ....

Planning to download the latest Win10.ISO (vers.1803) and manually update:
- Then wait that my ordered new SSD arrives and clone the old HDD to it.

 

GeForce Hotfix driver 353.38 (Update: Win10 versions added)

https://forums.geforce.com/default/...vers/announcing-geforce-hotfix-driver-353-38/

Update: Windows 10 (international) versions below:
Win10 - 64 bit desktop
Win10 - 32 bit desktop
Win10 - 64 bit notebook
Win10 - 32 bit notebook

 

A question for Win10 users.

I put off the upgrade for my desktop till only a few weeks ago. For me everything went smoothly except my wifi management software for my motherboard's wifi won't work (not a big deal as it still works without it). Nothing else went bad though.

The Win10 upgrade for my Gigabyte laptop went smoothly but my HP still has some intermittent issues that only arose since the upgrade (touchscreen sometimes doesn't work, wifi cuts out spontaneously etc).