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help with windows 10 and icons

doglover3 — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 04:15:59 GMT

I just downloaded windows 10 late last night. I use to play a lot of solitaire when I couldn't sleep so I had it on my lower task bar and all I had to do was click onto it. It is no longer there but everything else that was there is still there, just not that?

I have tried to find it, no luck.

another question, in the lower left hand corner I could open a search to find my things, no longer there for that either?

any help is greatly appreciated, thank you

Re: help with windows 10 and icons

taangelstar — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 05:23:07 GMT

Go to the windows icon the store on the left of your screen and type in games and it should be there.The search go to microsoft egde and in an search or type in bing to down load.Hope this helps.

Re: help with windows 10 and icons

taangelstar — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 05:29:22 GMT

If you are looking for favorites,its on the top after the star the 3 lines.Hit on that.

Re: help with windows 10 and icons

doglover3 — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 19:12:59 GMT

@taangelstar wrote:
Go to the windows icon the store on the left of your screen and type in games and it should be there.The search go to microsoft egde and in an search or type in bing to down load.Hope this helps.

thank you, found one that way. While it isn't exactly like the one I had on windows 7 it is okay. I just wish I could have gotten back the one I had from years ago when I had XP and windows 7.

I don't understand why that is the only thing that is gone. All my other icons etc are still there other than that one?

Re: help with windows 10 and icons

chickenbutt — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 20:58:34 GMT

Yeah, unfortunately, they took away all the games that they had prior to Windows 8.

When I got my first Win8 computer I was extremely disappointed because I also play a lot of solitaire.

The good news is that there is a way to get it from one of your older computers (Win7 or older) and put it on your new computer. I did this and couldn't be more pleased to have the regular game back.

There is a guy who has a video that explains how to do that. It's super easy and just takes a couple of minutes.

HERE is the video if you're interested.

Since Win7 I've also been hating that they took away the 'Quick Launch' bar in the bottom taskbar. So I also found a link to add that back in. It's also super easy if anybody wants to do that.

Re: help with windows 10 and icons

doglover3 — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 08:21:01 GMT

thanks so much chickenbutt, very glad to hear I can get it back. I did get a decent one on the Microsoft site but does have ads like most of their games.

I have/had windows 7 and this is very different and will take some time to get use to.

I am still trying to find a way to clear cookies, cache, history etc so, will take some time.

Re: help with windows 10 and icons

apple1964 — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 12:52:27 GMT

I am going to wait until I get a new computer with win10 loaded on it. Meanwhile I still have 8.1 and windows7 on two of my laptops. I tried several times to upgrade both these computers and all it did was spin and spin and was unable to load. I am glad it did not work on my computers reviews are mixed and a lot of people are still having problems with it.

Re: help with windows 10 and icons

chickenbutt — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 14:58:41 GMT

doglover3 wrote:
thanks so much chickenbutt, very glad to hear I can get it back. I did get a decent one on the Microsoft site but does have ads like most of their games.
I have/had windows 7 and this is very different and will take some time to get use to.

I am still trying to find a way to clear cookies, cache, history etc so, will take some time.

Glad to help. Another word to the wise - This guy on the video talks a lot. So, what I did was go to through most of the video only watching/listening and then I went back to actually do it. I would pause the video between steps and that helped a lot.

I also, instead of saving the Window 7 Games on the new computer, initially, saved it onto an external source (external hard drive or flash drive - I have both). That seemed easier because sometimes I have a hard time with going directly between two computers since they started with that stupid 'Homegroup' thing. So I saved the two files that it shows you how to find on one of my external hard drives and then plugged the drive into the new computer and copied the two files onto the computer.

Hope that didn't make it seem more confusing. It's actually easy and quick. I've done it on two different new computers by now and it's nice just having the files already on the external hard drive so I didn't have to find them, so the second one went even faster.

Re: help with windows 10 and icons

Marp — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 02:26:42 GMT

@doglover3 wrote:
@taangelstar wrote:
Go to the windows icon the store on the left of your screen and type in games and it should be there.The search go to microsoft egde and in an search or type in bing to down load.Hope this helps.
thank you, found one that way. While it isn't exactly like the one I had on windows 7 it is okay. I just wish I could have gotten back the one I had from years ago when I had XP and windows 7.
I don't understand why that is the only thing that is gone. All my other icons etc are still there other than that one?

If you want to install the windows 7 version of solitaire check out this link. I am using the old Spider Solitaire and Mahjong Titans on my Win 10 laptop.

http://winaero.com/blog/get-windows-7-games-for-windows-10/

Re: help with windows 10 and icons

doglover3 — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 07:38:17 GMT

@chickenbutt wrote:
@doglover3 wrote:
thanks so much chickenbutt, very glad to hear I can get it back. I did get a decent one on the Microsoft site but does have ads like most of their games.
I have/had windows 7 and this is very different and will take some time to get use to.

I am still trying to find a way to clear cookies, cache, history etc so, will take some time.

Glad to help. Another word to the wise - This guy on the video talks a lot. So, what I did was go to through most of the video only watching/listening and then I went back to actually do it. I would pause the video between steps and that helped a lot.

I also, instead of saving the Window 7 Games on the new computer, initially, saved it onto an external source (external hard drive or flash drive - I have both). That seemed easier because sometimes I have a hard time with going directly between two computers since they started with that stupid 'Homegroup' thing. So I saved the two files that it shows you how to find on one of my external hard drives and then plugged the drive into the new computer and copied the two files onto the computer.

Hope that didn't make it seem more confusing. It's actually easy and quick. I've done it on two different new computers by now and it's nice just having the files already on the external hard drive so I didn't have to find them, so the second one went even faster.

chickenbutt, I have 2 click frees that I got here from QVC and do keep them backed up.

I don't know if I am suppose to leave one plugged in all the time though or as I now do, just plug one in every month and update?

Re: help with windows 10 and icons

chickenbutt — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 18:14:56 GMT

Hey Doglover!

I think that type of external hard drive is one that has software in it to automatically back up certain types of files/folders at certain, pre-determined, intervals. That is why you keep that type of hard drive plugged in.

I don't have those so I keep mine in their cases and just manually copy stuff over that I want to back up, at intervals of my own choosing.

But I'm pretty sure that you can copy some files from one computer onto your hard drive, manually, then plug it into your new computer and copy those files onto the new one. Then you'll also always have those two files (speaking of the solitaire/Win7 games files - there are two of them you'll need) available in the event that you get another computer.

I also saved the link for that YouTube video on my external and on at least one computer. That way I didn't have to search for it again.

HOpe all that made sense.

ETA - the only thing I don't know for sure is if each time the Click-Free hard drives delete everything each time it updates itself and then replaces it. But if you save those files in 'My Documents' and it is set to back up your 'My Documents' folder, then it will always be available on both your computer and the external.

Re: help with windows 10 and icons

doglover3 — Fri, 25 Sep 2015 01:21:56 GMT

chickenbutt, I too saved that link since I will have to watch it several times.

I have been happy with my click free. I do get updates from them and do update. I keep my recipes on a flash drive since I lost them all before when my first computer crashed and I didn't have anything, no click free and no flash drives so I lost everything.

Yes, do think I should keep my latest/largest click free plugged on since it only updates new things.

What I am not sure about though is when I get e mails that I immediately delete is all that junk going into my click free before I can delete it?