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Some essential tips to get this crippled, ugly OS working like you were used to in that very fine smooth and beautiful Windows 7.

Problem: This PC not showing up in Network and sharing:
How to get network sharing work with Windows 10 (answers.microsoft.com)

I am a user. I do not appeciate if the OS or other programs gobble up my time before i get them to work like i want and/or expect. I have arrived to accept that Windows 10 is ugly,... because there is no easy fix for that. And i have to use it.
One thing helps the ex Windows 7 user, and that is this thing called Classic Shell.

I have a pc, i have a smartphone, and i have a TV. I want to keep them seperated. Microsoft is telling me that i am wrong, and combines them in one OS: Windows 10.
So there are some tweakings to do after installing Windows 10.

Sharing drive in windows 7: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zNWXrrkftE

255 character limit finally gone! Oh, that is one positive thing about windows 10. (keep searching... )

Oh but not by default, you as customer have to finish their job yourself...

How to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem

Find the DWord:
LongPathsEnabled
change the 0 to 1

Moving Outlook 2010 data to new Computer/Outlook 2016 (answers.microsoft.com)

I have now installed Windows 10 on two of my desktop pc's in my network (the other two desktop pc's stay windows 7). Oh and my laptop is windows 10.
Fresh installations. I take Windows 10 completely as it is, no more classic shell. I try to live with it as it is, and try to mold it to my liking.

I use this method when thumb.db file(s) refuse to be deleted.
Scroll down to half way that post:

Getting Rid of Hidden Thumbs.db Files

1. Or... i just noticed: open another images folder in display view that still has to create a thumbs.db file, to make it busy doing that so your culprit gets freed! Just delete it now. Might be quicker than that linked (otherwise very useful) tip.
2. Or (what i have been doing for many years) start searching for another thumbs.db to right-click on to open, and while windows is busy with that one, sometimes the culprit gets freed as well.

Unable to open high-resolution file in Windows Photo Gallery

What the heck/ Even the Windows Photo viewer ( "Photos") does not zoom in to pixel size anymore, like was normal in Windows 7 ---> Preview. (looking into this... )

I want Windows 10 Explorer without showing a (large or small) thumbnail preview during Drag/Dropping!!! Is that so hard?
This problem: change Windows 10 drag files (icon/cursor size)
Windows 10 - Very large icon when copying or moving files in File Explorer...

Solution: thirdparty software.

I am using Double Commander now... (sourceforge.net)

Customizable! Well, that's really needed. And you can, and in many details.
It even has a pictures preview function! And with this i am able to zoom in to pixel level again! That fixes my complaint in previous post.

Sadly, it is not a replacement for Windows Explorer though. You cannot drag and drop images from internet, using Firefox (75.0 64-bit). When i drag and drop, the .jpg file of about 1MB filesize turns into a .bmp of 32 MB after dropping!


EDIT (2 days later): and strangely, the original issue in Explorer has disappeared.... now i have the usual behaviour back, no super large folder contents preview anymore on mouse pointer while dragging. Really interesting.
This means i am back to just using Explorer for file tasks.

access-is-denied-windows-10 error

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