SECDRV.SYS Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of older games.

Potentially worse news for everyone to come -- no matter your "Operating system". My Age of 2 "The age of kings" and "Conquerors" expansion, both quit working at the same time about a month and half ago. The issues I am reading about here and now are the same that then occurred using my windows 7. I have had the game since 1995 release and played it very often and through every new system, win95, xp, and windows 7 with no issues. I was hopeful upgrading to windows 10 would fix the problem. It did not. I get the same exact results with both windows 7 and now 10. I know the issue is delivered in the updates (in windows 7) as I did a complete reformat of my system. These updates, and many there are (205 in one instance alone) are delivered over several days to my system. After reformat Age of empires worked once again -- but only for 2 days of these updates -- then again no longer. I am going back to using windows 7 in any case, as, by the look and feel of windows 10 it is nothing I need or want. In my opinion just a lot of gadgets I do not need popping up and getting in the way of what I am trying to do. I know going back to windows 7 will not allow me to run the game. Perhaps it is a matter of figuring out which update is the root cause of the problem and forcing it not to load onto my system. But unfortunately that is out of the realm of my expertise.  Mostly it is annoying that I do not know if this was in error and that there is a fix coming in a future update -- or as rumored -- this is intentional behavior on Microsoft's part for monetary gain. Whatever the case I'll not be buying any future form of these games or others that I already own and are now likely destined to fail.

Seems a lawsuit is inevitable on this. 

I bought the game, and I wish to play it.

I downloaded Windows 10 and the game was disabled.

I went back to Windows 7 but it's no longer usable.

I want a refund for Age of Empires.

I will not be accepting new downloads, I can no longer believe in Microsoft.

Thanks. I went back to 7, and I'll read up on Dual Boot.

 Just an old guy who needs to play Age of Empires II. And NOT a "new" version.

Okay people. Has anyone else had this problem while still on Windows 8.1? I believe it was installed in an update on Windows 8.1 for me and ever since then, i couldn't launch need for speed underground (2003. pretty obvious it uses safedisc) so i tried upgrading to Windows 10, and obviously that did absolutely nothing

Steam fits the definition of malware to a "T".  Third party software should not be necessary to run already purchased programs just because Microsoft has chosen to make these old disks unusable.  Nobody should be railroaded into having to go the Steam route.  GOG would be a better way to go, buy who wants to pay again to use a piece of software just because Microsoft has chosen to make one's original copy unusable?