I like it like that. I can see what I am doing and get to things easily and quickly rather than been bombarded with so many things I don't need stuck there in the way with large bloated sizes of things that seem to take up a lot of room on the screen.
That is the Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2019.
I spent two years of aggravation trying to get it like that and recently found an easy way of mass renaming paths in registry when copying from "templateuser" profile to "default" profile to save me a lot of work when making new accounts.
I have a few friends early this who who where skeptical at first, not easy to encourage them but after showing them they seem happy with it and nice and simple for them to use.
Someone recently gave me in a Lenovo Ideapad 320 to look at.
First used in 2018, last used less than a year in 2019 with only about a months worth of use looking at the power on hours and averaging it a day or so.
The reason was that it was very very slow.
It had Windows 10 home, mechanical hard disk that did about 80mb a second. I copied it over to a Sandisk X300 SSD. The startup was quicker but it was still slow on the desktop with all the that search going and the "apps" in the background and when connected it lots of activity for a while on that I observed.
Anyway I cloned my template copy and brought the keys and friend was happy saying it was a lot better and usable now.
I said there are compromises. No app store. You can install apps but it might not work for that build, support is slower if any, I really altered it for my use really for no feature but the security updates. I disabled and stripped a lot of things out of it including some telemetry stuff. I set the permissions so Update Orchestrator can't rewrite the folder tasks and registry part in task scheduler and default permissions to deny other accounts access to alter it where it would switch on the windows updater and restart automatically. It is blank now and when shutting down, "Shutdown and install updates" as I expect. I think I removed two other services one of them, waasmedic that also switch the windows updater on when I wanted it off attimes.
It is not perfect but I am finding ways of "improving it" to my satisfactions and standards.
I attached some of my registry tweaks on the appearance.
Just leave it alone I am perfectly happy. I don't mind features being added on but not stuck in the way where interferes one of them being "quick access" I open so many things randomly and it's in the way. On the other hand they added an option to hide the libraries or "virtual" folder which is nice. Might need that something in future but never found use for it.
On the other hand I removed Windows Media Player as it seemed to be causing havoc. Despite removing "wm_setup" it caused the system to keep defaulting or keep on asking file associations would on recreate some of the libraries folder and one time when I discovered this some imaging stuff redirected there I was infuriated before discovering how they were being recreated.
I wanted to get rid of the help icon as it opens a Microsoft website if clicked accidentally. I found I couldn't remove the ircon but could prevent it opening up the browser after I traced it.
Just because it looks 80's doesn't mean to me I am wasting my time, I want it like that. I don't care how old it looks as long I can get to function in the way I want. Also in response to that t is using the modern styling such as the ribbon stuff but just smaller metric sizes to keep the windows and icons smaller to maximize as much space as possible like the ones I attached.
Joke: HORSES FOR COURSEShttps://www.wordnik.com/words/horses for courses
horses for courses
noun
A person suited for one job may not be suited for another job.
The practice of choosing the best person for a particular job.
It suits me VERY WELL and very proud of it now without getting upset and angry and loosing my temper just trying to the the most simple, basic easy things I could do easily before until I made the alterations.
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