Thanks, Gary and David,
Agreed, Win 10 is a bad version of Windows.
The number of "annoying or fatal issues" (such as those you have mentioned, and zillions of other problems) is absolutely enormous in Win 10.
Also , the sense of "loss of control" infuriates many experienced users.
But Win 7 is not too bad!
I am going to kill one of my Win 10 instals, as it is optional, and replace it with Win 7.
cheers
Robert
Browsers seem to have got more sluggish, too, at least when used with my slow mobile internet speeds:::
(1) the latest version of Firefox ran remarkably slowly on my machines, so I killed it and installed a much earlier version. Firefox nags you all the time to download updates ....so turn update off if you are happy with the version you have got.
(2) I switched to Opera browser in the last year, as it is fast, but the latest version of Opera doesn't work properly with
both of my Win 10 installations; it has got a very bad case of memory leakage which caused massive overuse of RAM.
(3) I hate to say it, but Internet Explorer 11 works well with my slow internet speeds, and it has reasonable privacy and security features.
(4) I don't use Chrome, because of privacy issues.
Added in edit
I note that there are two new and interesting browsers available:
Vivaldi
http://au.pcmag.com/vivaldi/43225/review/vivaldi
Maxthon
http://au.pcmag.com/maxthon-cloud-br...-cloud-browser
(Sorry about the advertisement that seems to appear over the face of these two software reviews, but it is worth getting rid of in order to read the reviews)