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Current operating system is Windows 7 pro on 6 computers in a peer-to-peer network. I don’t know anything about Windows 10. I need more than a list of tutorials, I need a guide of some sort so I can learn how to use Windows 10. Yes, I searched for a post on this and all I found are posts about surface books.
This question must have been asked many times so, if there is a useful existing url containing the information I need please send me the url.
Thank you.
See your earlier topic on the same question:
https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/windows-10-tutorial/
I wondered/needed the same thing. After hours on the internet, and finding tons of stuff I could print, I purchased two books.
Windows 10 In Depth by Knittel and Windows 10 3rd Edition by Bott.
Both are general in nature due to the changing versions of Windows 10, but they are good guides.
It’s not that different, mostly the silly touchscreen cobbled interface makes the two OS’s seem to border disparate. Try installing Open Shell (just the menu), that will give you a Win 7 style interface and make it easy to find things. Put a shortcut to the Control Panel (which shows up in the Open Shell Menu) on your desktop and go! Gpedit shortcut would be nice, too, it’s here:
C:\Windows\System32\gpedit.msc
Open Shell, click the first button ver 4.4.142:
https://open-shell.github.io/Open-Shell-Menu/
(This is a take over of Classic Shell which the original author moved on from)
If you understand Pro 7 well, with a similar interface Pro 10 is a quick learn. A book isn’t needed.
A good forum (similar to those for 7 and 8):
I agree with Anon.
Wife and I are 95 -> XP -> 7. I have a tower, she has had laptops since XP. Last month she bought a 10. ‘Twas 10 Home, S Mode. (Reasonable price and specs.)
Here’s what we did …
Brought it up, offline, per instructions here.
She (usually) pushed the buttons with me watching.
Went through all the Settings (new, improved!) during the set up. And we discovered that Control Panel still exists.
Connected computer on the home network (initially wired, but now Wi-Fi). My 7, her old 7, her new 10. (No problems – just the same as 7.)
Switched out of S Mode (she already had a Microsoft account from some time back).
Delete/uninstalled stuff we don’t want, and MS Store-related.
Upgraded license to Pro (per the references here to the (now expired) special at PCWorld.) (Have set deferrals, etc., to a long period, pending more thorough decisions.)
Installed Firefox, Thunderbird, other programs.
Created Wife user-id.
Copied from her 7 to the 10 all user stuff.
On her own, she researched and removed the tiles.
Her old 7 is now set aside, just-in-case.
She is very happy with the new computer: 8G / 256G SSD. Much snappier than the old one. And it has a working optical drive, one of the problems with the old machine. Other problem is a badly cracked case at one of the hinges, dangerous to close lid.
I’m still a Never-10er – too much baby-sitting and folderol with 10; but I was relieved to find so much that IS common with 7.
Go for it. Do one machine as a learner, then propagate.
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