LF, I just want to say that I agree with you about Windows XP. I loved it. My husband loved it also and we were just too afraid of all the bad reports about Vista (thank goodness we didn’t try that) to switch. Then we bought new hardware that was not compatible with XP anymore and we were forced to look into what was out there. What we found out was that Windows 8(!?) whichever version, is also junk, but Windows 7 is actually pretty good. We switched over to that and, except for a few annoying messages that I get about administrator permissions and such, I am very happy. I have a very nice taskbar and every window that is open shows up down there, not just the pinned ones. They show up all the time and I can just open them with a click. If it’s a running program, it shows up at the end of the line (or is it the beginning). You do have to get used to the pictures on the taskbar rather than any words about what program it is (was it like that with XP???), but other than that, I’m very happy. No problems with running programs at this point. I have the Ultimate version and it’s very good. You should think about that as an option. I’m not sure how long it will take to get any bugs in Windows 10 fixed, no matter how good of a program it is.
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