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

actually shenan you work for MS as an MVP so your responses are just slightly biased. I have been a MS user since windows 1.0.  I actually worked with the company that took MS public.  I would say this win10 environment gets a C and the upgrade process gets a D+.  I'm sure people will chime in, as they always do, interpreting my criticism as some type of attack where they need to defend this techno-giant.  Sometimes you just need to listen to criticism in order to improve product...  Not as a personal slight that requires some champion to rescue a cause.

I use a system with an Intel 7 multicore processor, 24 gigs of ram and and SSD as a boot drive.  I did not notice a stich of performance improvement going from win 7 to win 10, rather I did noticed degradation in the speed of windows loading and applications loading.   This is one of the major reasons for upgrades in the past, ie. improved performance, quicker boot times, improved productivity, better memory management.  None of this was apparent to me like the move from Win 3.1 to win98 or win7.  These environments had a wow factor for users after boot up.   What I do see here is Microsoft's strategy to unify a platform between phones, pc's and tablets.  Admirable goals.  My 6 other systems will likely not see Win10 which is not what microsoft wants to hear.  Most of my friends who have been users of MS are of the same opinion as myself.    

As for interfaces, it's better than 8, the start button works well but the requirement of using my hotmail/windows credentials to use Cortana is out the window with me.  I tried cortana for a couple of days and it just appeared as another internet search engine.  Requiring that I use my ms credentials I view as a potential security risk so cortana is gone.  I suspect MS can decouple the login to the Microsoft account as a requirement for cortana but for now, it's gone.  Edge does not work with all apps so I switched my browser to chrome.  My mouse has become more choppy than in 7 which tells me there may be some processing issues.  What I really didn't like was the removal of my games from win 7.  This, in my opinion was completely unnecessary and hurtful to the user experience.  For those of us who play games like free cell or solitaire or hearts they are not just games.  They are pastimes.  We tend to keep track of our scores and use these games to bide time while waiting for tech support responses.  People really get attached to this stuff.  If you peruse the web for "what happened to my win 7 games after update to win 10" you'll find out just how ticked people are with this move.

Actually Sheldon, you are incorrect.

https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/faq#20130220163750

"Q10: Are Microsoft employees eligible to become MVPs?

A10: No, Microsoft employees cannot become MVPs"

Perusing the web does not make for an accurate count of anything - as you could do that for a variety of topics and find thousands/millions of hits and that is not necessarily indicative of support of the topic.  ;-)

I would suggest that perhaps your system needs updated device drivers specific to Windows 10 from the hardware manufacturers *if* they have chosen to support their products you have with said OS.  If they have not - you are likely better off returning to an OS that is supported by those who manufactured your hardware and software completely.

I don't like what you did to free cell. It is NOT the same and I am seriously thinking about removing windows 10. It also has cost me a lot of money due to the time it took on line to download it.

I thought after it was downloaded the drain on my $$ would quit but it has not. Put the older windows 7

games back on.

You mean you do not like what Microsoft did to Freecell.  ;-)

You can read the rest of the conversation to get your Windows Vista/7 games back yourself OR you can revert to your previous OS and continue using it.  Given it has been a few years since the current Windows OS contained the games you are referring to and they have not been added despite complaint conversations like this - the odds are they are NOT making a comeback.

Are you saying what we want doesn't make a difference to Microsoft?