Windows classic theme windows 10 download

As others said, Windows Classic is gone.  You can get a low-resource theme by going to Control Panel > System > Advanced system settings > Performance Settings and select "Adjust for best performance."  This turns off all fancy display options.

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While I haven't touched windows 10 yet, but with windows 7 you disable the themes service. This will remove all themes but basic from win7

LOL.. A theme. You're asking for a whole other taskbar and start menu.  I doubt MS has much incentive to figure out how to maintain multiple levels of capabilities. It's 2015 "Classic" Windows has moved on a long time ago.

there may be another way to registry changes..

In the win10 enterprise Beta at least, you could copy windows classic theme (classic.theme) from           "%windir%\Resources\Ease of Access Themes\" and get something derived from what you want. Then you may simply be able to change a few small things and save it as a win10 theme for your POS systems. You probably have also done this already but check that all the bells and whistles are turned off in performance options as well as managing services started.

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1GB of memory and Windows anything is a terrible idea. Migrate your POS to something that supports web based N-tier clients and move to a Linux solution for low memory hardware.

Best you can do is right click computer -> properties -> advanced systen settings -> performace -> adjust for best performace.  This will disable most effectes etc.

I have to agree with Jack, I'd try to find a POS solution that worked on Linux and fit you scenario, 1 GB in anything past Windows XP just is going to be a headache, IMO. 

atvfool wrote:

I have to agree with Jack, I'd try to find a POS solution that worked on Linux and fit you scenario, 1 GB in anything past Windows XP just is going to be a headache, IMO. 

Yeah, even on Windows XP that would be a pain. You might be able to get away with it on Windows 2000 though.

Yeah, according to

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-10-specifications

1 GB of RAM is the minimum requirement. Basically amounting to, "if you have 1 GB of RAM, you can start Win10. Anything else, and your computer is unable to handle it."

I am unsure whether or not upgrading the machines with a little more RAM is a reasonable way to go, but it certainly is one way. I wouldn't suggest anyone using Win10 yet for POS machines until testing had proved that it would be 1) Working and 2) reasonably fast. You may want to look into something Linux, restoring you previous windows OS, or something else. 

I doubt finding "Windows classic" would free up enough RAM to make the system noticeably faster.

Just got my free upgrade for my 7 year old laptop. It is a centrino processor with 4 GB ram. So far so good, but it plague with the disk use issue in which I believe someone at spiceworks probably have a solution for that already. I just did the upgrade so that I will be in better position supporting Windows 10 when I have to.

Seriously, if it is a deployed machine, I will not try Windows 10 right now regardless of hardware specification, especially for POS. It is just too critical to have any issues associating with new OS. Users or management don't care if it is the OS or Microsoft issue. If it works well in older OS why change? You can set up one for testing but that is pretty much it right now.

If possible, I would suggest to have the upgrade reverse for now and perhaps next year you may have replacement for those old machines anyway. 1GB ram running current operating systems is like asking to cramp 20 people in a van that can only fit 10. Possible, but not a good idea.

Outside of fiddling with the shell itself and creating more problems than solutions, you might be stuck, save for one thing:

Classic Shell. Download this, install it and customize it from within it's own UI. I found it pretty good when my Metro hatred burned brighter than a 1000 suns. There are a few very minor bugs that were easily dealt with and it did free up a few resources.

I do agree with the above posters on having such...slim..hardware. For a few hundred you can get a really updated linux box.

I would recommend using windows 7 not windows 10 since it runs POS, more than likely a vital part of your business. Also upgrade the ram in those to 2gb or 4 if possible.. Now if upgrading the ram inst an option Linux would be a great idea.  Best of luck with it... 

On Windows 10 right click on This PC, and then click on the Properties option that is on the bottom of the menu.  From there click, Advanced system settings, then under the Advanced tab click on the Settings button that is by Performance. Then select the Adjust for best performance radial button, then click apply.  That should give any Windows system a bit of a boost.

You probably want to shut off Search Indexing.. whatever its called.

As others said, Windows Classic is gone.  You can get a low-resource theme by going to Control Panel > System > Advanced system settings > Performance Settings and select "Adjust for best performance."  This turns off all fancy display options.

I don't know that Windows 10 can be counted upon to have a low-intensity mode for older systems, and even if it does, 1GB is pretty slim on the memory. I'd probably avoid installing Windows 10 on POS systems - at least right now - for no other reason because Windows 10 hasn't really gotten the full shake-down yet.  Have you bench tested Win10 with your POS software and peripherals? Typically POS systems don't have the greatest video subsystems.

yes the POS (copper point of sale) works with windows 10 its just slow because 1gb of memory is all it has

To everyone telling this guy to turn this feature off and that feature off,

It is, at best, futile. Windows Vista through 10 all have been system resource monsters. Bloated and full of unnecessary features. On a gig of RAM, and on a POS system, you want Linux. I'd recommend a nice, lightweight distribution. Microsoft Windows is outdated trashware used by MS to spy on your browsing and usage habits, then sell that info to the highest bidder.

If Windows were getting better, why are the numbers of successful viruses, bugs, glitches, and adware increasing in number? Why are they changing the UI so much if it's getting better? If Windows is getting so secure and perfect, why does Microsoft recommend antivirus IN ADDITION to Windows Defender? Because it's junk. If pc gaming weren't still so heavily dependent on Windows, I guarantee that their market share would drop like a stone.

Linux, is based on an ever evolving kernel. There are quite literally more people working to make it secure than to tear it down. There are teams of people ready to help with any problem you have. Best of all: It's free. The devs WANT you to have it. They want you to use it because it's a better product, and a better choice.

Michael412627 wrote:

To everyone telling this guy to turn this feature off and that feature off,

It is, at best, futile. Windows Vista through 10 all have been system resource monsters. Bloated and full of unnecessary features. On a gig of RAM, and on a POS system, you want Linux. I'd recommend a nice, lightweight distribution. Microsoft Windows is outdated trashware used by MS to spy on your browsing and usage habits, then sell that info to the highest bidder.

If Windows were getting better, why are the numbers of successful viruses, bugs, glitches, and adware increasing in number? Why are they changing the UI so much if it's getting better? If Windows is getting so secure and perfect, why does Microsoft recommend antivirus IN ADDITION to Windows Defender? Because it's junk. If pc gaming weren't still so heavily dependent on Windows, I guarantee that their market share would drop like a stone.

Linux, is based on an ever evolving kernel. There are quite literally more people working to make it secure than to tear it down. There are teams of people ready to help with any problem you have. Best of all: It's free. The devs WANT you to have it. They want you to use it because it's a better product, and a better choice.

Windows 10 works with 1GB RAM fine if you are not doing much multitasking.  A POS terminal probably will not be multitasking. I have used an HP Stream 7 and it is quite usable unless you try to do too many things at the same time.

If the hardware, software, drivers etc. are all compatible with Windows 10, then it should work fine.

m45h3d32 typed:

Michael412627 typed:

To everyone telling this guy to turn this feature off and that feature off,

It is, at best, futile. Windows Vista through 10 all have been system resource monsters. Bloated and full of unnecessary features. On a gig of RAM, and on a POS system, you want Linux. I'd recommend a nice, lightweight distribution. Microsoft Windows is outdated trashware used by MS to spy on your browsing and usage habits, then sell that info to the highest bidder.

If Windows were getting better, why are the numbers of successful viruses, bugs, glitches, and adware increasing in number? Why are they changing the UI so much if it's getting better? If Windows is getting so secure and perfect, why does Microsoft recommend antivirus IN ADDITION to Windows Defender? Because it's junk. If pc gaming weren't still so heavily dependent on Windows, I guarantee that their market share would drop like a stone.

Linux, is based on an ever evolving kernel. There are quite literally more people working to make it secure than to tear it down. There are teams of people ready to help with any problem you have. Best of all: It's free. The devs WANT you to have it. They want you to use it because it's a better product, and a better choice.

I love posts like these...are you sure you work in a corporate environment?  Yes Linux is better at some things and can be lighter and is great for giving old laptops a new lease of life at home BUT software in business is generally still Windows based and Windows is what is required, no amount of wishful thinking or slagging off is going to change that.  Windows still excels at enpoint managbility and the familarity of it is vital to business, imagine the cost of retraining all of your staff and replacing every piece of software!  Support still needs to be purchased in a corporate envirnment and this pushes from free to price parity (look at Red Hat).  Despite what people would have you believe a hardened Windows server or desktop is easily as secure as a properly configured Linux box.

I feel the same way m45h3d32, linux has its uses but most of our software is windows only