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

After finally getting rid of the Microsoft icon asking me to download Windows 10, it's back this morning!  How do I get rid of it for good and not let Windows updates reload it?

The old spider solitaire game was fine as it was.

I will most likely downgrade back to Windows7.

New software should be an improvement--not a disappointment.

All over the internet are people who are missing their spider solitaire.

Microsoft says SOL for us?

Shenan, I appreciate your civil, non insulting reply.  By average user, I was mostly thinking of everyone who posed the games question on this board.  And many, many senior citizens to whom I have given introductory instruction.  Their computer abilities may be average, but certainly they are not.  I reverted back to Windows 7 not only because of games, because nothing works right and privacy is stunningly absent.  I had no problem at all doing that when following instructions I mentioned earlier.  Over and out.

I found the built in version you mentioned. Problems is that it does not work. Only half of each card displays diagonally.

Wish the engineers would pay attention to the people wanting this to be fixed. Also the old version included in Win 7 needs to be added to Win 10. This would make many people happy again.

Thanks,

Kathryn Petch

I believe you underestimate the power of the 'average' user (depending on where and what you average) and/or their knowing someone with more skill than themselves they trust to help. Many people use Google searches (Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, etc.) every day.  I will concede that users who may find the removal of the games an absolute deal breaker for the free upgrade to the newer OS with at least 5 years longer support (2020 January ends Windows 7 support) might need or at least desire the latter (re:knowing/trusting someone else to do it for them) as opposed to anything else... But if they made it here to complain, it seems like it would be possible to me.

The process ended up being fairly straightforward, if you were willing to trust some third-party modifications. If you are not, yes, you need to have a little bit of skill. Or, you need to trust that some third-party modified whatever you download without any additional baggage added.  Risky.

I did all three ways.  Worked okay.  Didn't think it was really necessary, but, each their own.

I did not double check if the Windows.OLD folder might have what was needed.  I have to assume 'yes' since it is what rolls you back to the old OS, so if you can rollback, you probably still have on the same computer all that you need.  Maybe I'll try that, post the results.

Cannot post instructions, against house rules.  However, just following instructions that were put out for Windows 8/8.1 and 10 freely available on the Internet anyway.