Greetings, oh sage ones...

It's beginning to look a lot like......mother is going to need a new computer (thought I was going to say Christmas, eh?). My brother and I are looking at all-in-one systems to save space, as all she does is e-mail and a few select browser pages to include Amazon shopping, etc.

The issue, is that 82-year old mother is EXTREMELY resistent to change, and I'm pretty sure any system purchased is going to come with Windows 10...mac users, don't even start in with your propaganda. . Anyway, I think I remember reading something that you can configure Windows 10 to emulate the Windows 7 desktop environment to a great degree. It would be really helpful for our sanity in transition if that were the case, as mother has been on Windows 7 for years.

So...is that a true statement? Thanks and Merry Christmas!!!

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It won't be *exactly* like Windows 7, but it gets close enough that she should be ok.

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can configure Windows 10 to emulate the Windows 7 desktop environment to a great degree

It already pretty much is for the average user.
The latest releases don't really need the Classic Shell as did early W10 and W8 releases.

Use the desktop and stay there, you won't see the difference.

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If she's going from 7 to 10, logging in, shutting down, and restarting will be a little different, but other than that it's almost the same as 7 until you try to change settings, as you can no longer do most everything through the Control Panel. Some things are now managed via "Settings" instead, but that's probably your job to manage, not hers. (I'm in the same boat with my mother's laptop.)

I wouldn't recommend a Mac, but I would strongly urge you to consider an iPad. Man did THAT make my life easier when I got my 83 year old mother one. Like your's, all she did was email and a little browsing/shopping. No more Windows updates, or virus scan software for me to deal with. Lower maintenance for ME.

and many of the places she wanted to browse to had their own app which just made the experience that much easier. Facebook/Amazon etc.

Anyway, whatever you decide, good luck! Cheers!

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Originally posted by r0gue:
I wouldn't recommend a Mac, but I would strongly urge you to consider an iPad. Man did THAT make my life easier when I got my 83 year old mother one. Like your's, all she did was email and a little browsing/shopping. No more Windows updates, or virus scan software for me to deal with. Lower maintenance for ME.

and many of the places she wanted to browse to had their own app which just made the experience that much easier. Facebook/Amazon etc.

Anyway, whatever you decide, good luck! Cheers!

Although you can do most computing tasks on an iPad, nearly everything is very different than on a "computer". As this situation was described, this would be a steep learning curve. Quite a bit more so than going from W7 to W10.

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Originally posted by NavyGuy:
Although you can do most computing tasks on an iPad, nearly everything is very different than on a "computer". As this situation was described, this would be a steep learning curve. Quite a bit more so than going from W7 to W10.

But oh so much less trouble thereafter.

I would never recommend anybody in this day and age use a general purpose computer for merely browsing and email. It'd be way overkill.

Unless screen size was an issue.

If she does much typing, she probably won't want a tablet. My mom is 80, and very involved in church and volunteer activities that require her to do a fair amount of typing. Mostly it's in email, but she uses Word sometimes, too, and saves documents to folders.