I'm seriously contemplating never using Win10, unless, over the next couple of years, my Son in Law can tweak it SO much that he could install me a version with which I'd be comfortable and enjoy using

As for games ....
I've probably already collected enough to play and replay and be kept entertained for YEARS And I still have time to gather more ....

AND there are other solutions for email etc.

There have always been tons of other options for email and browsers. And there are other solutions if you don't want Windows. Many people use Macs and computers with Linux on them. The gaming options are not as good, but they are not Windows! Unfortunately, Windows 10 is pretty much it for the forseeable future if you don't like Windows. But you've got 4 more years with Windows 7, so enjoy it!

Yes. I'm fully aware that Win10 is going to be "it"

However, I expect to be enjoying Win7 for a lot longer than another four years. After all, I'm still enjoying WinXP and Win98SE !!

Me too for Windows XP! Haven't fired up that computer for quite a while since I took it off the internet though. Maybe when you have to take Windows 7 off the internet to just keep for gaming, you can get a Mac or something else for internet use... having the best of all worlds!

I've no doubt my Son in Law will find some kind of a solution for me, Draclvr

One thing we know for sure you will always have is all the ways to play games possible!

I sincerely hope so !!

Interesting benchmarks on Internet Explorer alternatives...

The Best Browser to Replace Internet Explorer is.......

User interface and configurability are much more important than a few milliseconds of speed. Speed is more dependent on bandwidth than anything else anyway (and occasionally on DNS server response time). Are you even going to notice if a browser takes half a second longer to load a website? I doubt it. But you're certainly going to notice if it takes you 2 minutes to dig down and locate any settings you want to adjust.

People didn't continue using IE6 for so long because it was faster.
They used it because it had a familiar interface, unlike IE7 or later.

I couldn't agree more - I have tried mightily to like Chrome, but the user interface just doesn't do anything for me. I also tried Opera and just couldn't like the user interface.

Seamonkey seems to have the best out-of-the-box user interface -- that is, unless they've "updated" it to something useless in the latest version. Last time I installed it it was fine though.

One advantage of Firefox is that people have developed Add-Ons like "Classic Theme Restorer" so you can get the user interface back to something like it used to be.

I really hate the Chrome Interface where some of the most useful controls are buried several layers deep. A few years ago I took a class where one of the assignments was to set up a computer with certain programs installed and with the homepage of three web browsers (IE, Firefox, and Chrome) set to display a certain webpage when the browser was opened. Firefox and IE were no problem, but no one in the class could figure out how to do it in Chrome. Even with "help" sites like this
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95314?hl=en
there seems to be no easy way to set the browser to open with a specific website displayed. (And I don't mean opened in a 2nd tab). Apparently Google doesn't want you to do this because they bury it deep and make it needlessly complicated. Eventually the instructor showed us how to do it, and it was indeed buried, not called what you'd expect it to be called, and the process was nothing like setting the homepage in the other browsers.

My experience exactly with Chrome... The simplest things I took for granted in IE and Firefox were - while not impossible - needlessly difficult. Chrome is also the only browser that has caused so many problems that I have uninstalled it on at least two computers. I thought it was just me trying to get it to work smoothly, but one individual has his son-in-law look at it. The son-in-law was in a very elevated position in the military for IT security. He also gave up, so I didn't feel so bad.

Thanks for that link, Draclvr

I, too, have tried Chrome twice and uninstalled it twice - on both my WinXP and Win7 machines.
So, as far as Chrome is concerned, that's it for me.

I am sticking with IE and Firefox for the time being. At least I feel as though I'm still "in charge of my own machine" with those two, at the moment, anyway

I'm still kicking my backside for not upgrading to Win 7, when it was offered.

Terri are you still on xp?

Vista on one her older computers, I think. I don't think Windows 7 was ever offered as a free upgrade though. I remember getting it really cheap though - like maybe $15? But that was 6 years ago, so I'm probably not remembering correctly.

Hi Winfrey. No, my old pc is Vista.

Hi Drac. I was offered Win 7 but think I was afraid I'd mess it up if I tried to upgrade the pc, now I wish I had gone for it.

You can get Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 for about $50 at Amazon. Never too late!

Be careful about the ones that say "for refurbished PC."
One reviewer said

Sometimes there's a reason they're cheap like that.

Very good point, Jenny. I should have said to stay away from those "refurb" deals. The ones for builders should be OK though and they are roughly the same price. Obviously no "open" boxes either.

I bought the PC in 2009 and am thinking I would probably not spend any more on it, I would rather purchase a new one if I have a major problem with it. At least that's my thinking for now.

Dell had a free option to upgrade to Windows 7 if you bought one of their Vista computers within a certain time range (when they were just starting to introduce Windows 7 and most new computers still had Vista). I don't know if Terri's computer is a Dell, but other manufacturers may have offered the same deal.

It's a HP and I was offered the upgrade but didn't take it, was afraid I would mess up my pc since I know so little about computers.