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Sorting out the crap: A couple weeks ago my activated Windows 10 Home Premium play system caught the "Start Menu" problem. Installed Classic Shell to get a working start menu. Exited Classic Shell to see if Windows 10 start menu was working again. It was!? And it stayed working!? Do you think that is an exmple of 3rd party software fixing the released Win 10 operating system???

Crap: Windows 3.0 and 3.1 were far worse than released Windows 10. Windows 10 Previews may compete for Worst. I'd vote for that. However, just yesterday an activated Windows 7 Home Premium actually updated/upgraded to Windows 10 with no errors!? CCleaner removed all the unnedded software which left a clean operating system that didn't crash!? The start menu actually works!? It may even be used to do something useful. I use the Windows 7 Pro operating system to do useful things. Free in itself is not crap. Even if it is Win 10. Linux Mint 17.2 is free. It installs cleanly, much quicker than Win 10, and it comes with free Libre Office!! VirtualBox is free. It also installs quickly and easily. Windows 10 running as a guest in Virtual Box runs OK. VirtualBox gives you the feature to use the Snapshot option to go back quickly and easily to a previously working Windows 10. But if you have a working Windows 7 why would you switch to Windows 10 for your production system?? Perhaps you could tell me why there are so many false error embedded in the Windows update procedure that suggests you should buy a new PC or a new Key??? The automatic Windows update appears to be an optional update that is turned on normally. That optional update can be hidden to stop the automatic Windows 10 update. You're right. I don't understand the problem. It's crap but not the Worst. Why get upset when you're having fun with this crap???

Having worked on crap computer hardware and software for many years, I have to object to giving Windows 10 the status of "Worst Crap Ever." Operating system software in the last 50 years has had some real candidates for the category of crap. Also, consider that crap software has put a lot of groceries on the table over the years. Perhaps, working with crap for so long has given it a place of technical challenge to help grow a few new brain cells. The best part of today's crap is that it runs on computer hardware that weighs less than 20 pounds. When I think of the new operating system software, its some pretty nice crap but it has a ways to go to be the "Worst Crap Ever."