Computer Help and Support

I've found Win 10 quite tame-able, the first necessity being installation of Open Shell (a redo of the old Classic Shell).

Download: https://open-shell.github.io/Open-Shell-Menu/

Once you are in a familiar environment, start turning off and uninstalling - warnings, fucking cortana, most inbuilt apps, MS cloud etc.

If you are the only one using the computer and it's not going to be tampered with - don't set a password or a Microsoft account with pin or anything else - at least until you have it set up and running the way you like.

Win 10 actually has an amazing ability to run very old games and programs. Compatibility mode is a serious improvement. You can also run ancient installers in compatibiity mode - not just the installed programs.

I understand your using a Win 7 machine these days - I kept XP on my main desktop until it was ready for embalming. I was forced to up to 10 because internet functionality was decreasing rapidly. Firefox made no more upgrades for XP, meaning that I couldn't play videos on most sites, very few add-ons worked and in general it was a disfunctional mess. I hated 7 - removing the 'Up' arrow did it for me.

I still have 8.1 on a micro computer that has one job - to play videos with VLC. I had to gut the OS to make it useable.

So please consider upping to 10 and getting yourself used to it before 7 becomes unusable - and it will. I actually think that once you have it under control, 10 is an excellent OS.