My old games- spider solitaire, freecell, and mohjong titans.

jenith -

thanks for the reply.  i have tried the ones offered by microsoft.  the free cell does not allow game selection, so it is not possible to go to the next game in the number sequence.  also, the game has forced moves.  if there is a destination for an individual card, or a block of cards, the program decides placement.  my wife has the older version on her laptop - can i download it and then upload to my computer?

the new version is NOT an improvement.  The microsoft help desk replied that, if i wanted the old version, i should just go back to my previous windows configuration.  how arrogant and petty.

bill pugh

Wait...

Did you say, " . . . The negative reviews of this new operating system are predominantly negative . . . "

*grin*

That's funny.  Hard to argue against too.  Almost a built-in guarantee.

Anyway, I don't see as many bad reviews as Windows 8 or Windows Vista.  Actually, I see less than even Windows XP had in its first year or so of life (relatively.)

Windows 10 reviews [ https://www.google.com/#q=Windows+10+reviews ]

I'd say it is fairly mixed.

The growth rate would be remarkable (what was the claim?  75 million upgrades or systems running Windows 10 after the first month?) if one couldn't probably just play it off to "it was free" or "people's misunderstanding of the difference between an upgrade and an update/patch" or just to the fact that it was easy enough for people to CLICK something and get it as opposed to all the other times when they had to do a BIT more than click on a AD built into their computer's OS.

It's all a game of opinions, like any product.  What one person likes, 10 others may dislike; what one person dislikes, 10 others may like.  Dislikers are historically louder than likers.  ;-)

Then perhaps you did not understand the meaning behind the reply.  It was not to find a substitute version of the games you want, but to follow the instructions found out there for making the OLD games work.  If you upgraded from Windows 7, the files still exist (for the first 30 days after you upgrade) for the games - they are just programmed to verify the version of Windows they are starting up on.

Hope that helps explain things a bit.  While I cannot point to instructions and the likes, there are some out there that work.  Just takes a little effort OR knowing someone who could do that for you... But the end results might look like this:

E.T.Fon911,

Just to follow up with this part - if they upgraded, they CAN follow various instructions online (as inferred) and the files they need to copy / modify will still exist on their system.

Here is a GIF animation of an upgraded machine showing the location of the old files (again, they will not work 'as is' under Windows 10.)

So as for, "You can't copy something that isn't there." <-- you are correct, but said files are there (for thirty days, the same amount of time they have to rollback.)

Just wanted to be sure that was clarified.  Might help someone.

Oh why not...  Someone will complain, but others will just use the reply and be happy that what they asked for is done...

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\GWX]

"DisableGWX"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate]

"DisableOSUpgrade"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\OSUpgrade]

"AllowOSUpgrade"=dword:00000000

"ReservationsAllowed"=dword:00000000

Those four entries in 3 places should, after a restart, give you the result you desire.  There's also suggestions about uninstalling updates and hiding them - but this works without worrying over that.