News How to Make Windows 11 Look and Feel Like Windows 10

[Soaptrail]

I was all in when Win 7 and 10 were released but if I cannot do simple things like move the taskbar I have no intentions to move to Win 11. I understand they rewrote the taskbar in a new language for Win 11 but seriously, how long will it take to get features we had and want in from Win 10.

 

[TheWorstTechSupport]

5. Hit Windows key + R and enter shell:::{05d7b0f4-2121-4eff-bf6b-ed3f69b894d9}

The above line is wrong. When you enter this in Windows 11 it does not open any settings at all. It behaves like a null string. Correction below:

5. Hit Windows key + R and enter Explorer shell:::{05d7b0f4-2121-4eff-bf6b-ed3f69b894d9}

 

[Colif]

thanks, wonder how long before MS change it again.

 

[Darkbreeze]

Soon as they see that somebody made something work right, they will immediately change it. Can't have things working right.

 

[Deleted member 14196]

It should be like Linux where you can have a plethora of different shells not the lame crap that we see. KDE a desktop is my favorite for development on Linux because it looks just like Windows 10 and it acts like it too with search and pinning to taskbar and all. Windows 11 interface is horrible by comparison. All the stupid drill down menus that eventually bring you to the same old stuff you were used to using. It’s infuriating

 

[Darkbreeze]

What's really infuriating is that there hasn't been a far more widespread adoption of Linux by software developers so that Windows wouldn't be a foregone conclusion for most system manufacturers. Things would be a little better at least, all the way around, if there was a bit more actual competition for the desktop and applications.

 

[Fred Huffman]

The registry hack didn't work for me. Neither did either one of the two suggestions to use Windows "View" options, one of which got the path incorrect. (No "Options" under view.) "Options", at least in one instance under the ellipsis (Three dots) didn't work either.
As to the root cause of this kind of an issue, after an experience of slugging my way through Microsoft (Office) 365, et.al for the past several months with their helpless "Support" department, I have concluded the army of little best and brightest of coder/programmers and several layers of management, project managers, program directors, et.al., in short, the whole crowd are about as uncoordinated, rout-step, unsynchronized as the second most effective fighting force on the planet now at play in Ukaranium. Nothing less than classical Microsoft, (MSFT) whose shares currently make up a significant part of my little retirement account. I have been an active user of MS Products and Services since the days of DOS 3.1. Every version of Winders except Mellenium and only a short time use of the one that started with a "V". (Maybe that should have been a "Z" in keeping with contemporary , unwelcome non-Ukaranium, gun-toting, tank drivers loose in Ukaranium ;-) Hopefully they will someday learn the meaning of, and appropriate use of the term "Release" as in Software and Hardware versioning. Some of the mountain of documentation I have explored and suffered through seems to be housed in Github. Maybe there's hope that some of the legacy Github talent can begin to sort out some of the document chaos and eventually drain that swamp.

 

[DSzymborski]

The registry hack didn't work for me. Neither did either one of the two suggestions to use Windows "View" options, one of which got the path incorrect. (No "Options" under view.) "Options", at least in one instance under the ellipsis (Three dots) didn't work either.
As to the root cause of this kind of an issue, after an experience of slugging my way through Microsoft (Office) 365, et.al for the past several months with their helpless "Support" department, I have concluded the army of little best and brightest of coder/programmers and several layers of management, project managers, program directors, et.al., in short, the whole crowd are about as uncoordinated, rout-step, unsynchronized as the second most effective fighting force on the planet now at play in Ukaranium. Nothing less than classical Microsoft, (MSFT) whose shares currently make up a significant part of my little retirement account. I have been an active user of MS Products and Services since the days of DOS 3.1. Every version of Winders except Mellenium and only a short time use of the one that started with a "V". (Maybe that should have been a "Z" in keeping with contemporary , unwelcome non-Ukaranium, gun-toting, tank drivers loose in Ukaranium ;-) Hopefully they will someday learn the meaning of, and appropriate use of the term "Release" as in Software and Hardware versioning. Some of the mountain of documentation I have explored and suffered through seems to be housed in Github. Maybe there's hope that some of the legacy Github talent can begin to sort out some of the document chaos and eventually drain that swamp.

Well, that was an adventure.

 

[Darkbreeze]

Sure was.

 

[DSzymborski]

Sure was.

We definitely should not support the Russians...err...uh...mining all the Ukaranium.

 

[Darkbreeze]

My head hurts.

 

[Vilin8r]

Is there a way to write a batch file (.bat) to make most of these changes?
I'm testing this on my VM and thought a batch file would be quicker.

 

[USAFRet]

Is there a way to write a batch file (.bat) to make most of these changes?
I'm testing this on my VM and thought a batch file would be quicker.

1. There is no script that will last. The underlying Windows system and commands change all the time. What might work today may not work in a few months.

2. Please don't dredge up ancient threads.