I just changed from Windows 7 to 10 and now I can’t find the games that showed up with the old start button nor the list of programs I was used to. Can you please tell me how to find this stuff?
Push the WIndows key on your keyboard and then start typing the game’s name. That’s probably the easiest way.
I typed “hearts” and it gave me a bunch of stuff that appeared unrelated but didn’t show anything that I recognized as the hearts game.
I got quickly frustrated and changed back to Windows 7, so this is academic now. Thanks for your answers, perhaps they’ll help someone else.
The games that were previously installed in Windows 7 are removed from Windows 10. Great improvement, right? They want you to go to the Windows Store and download the updated Windows 10 versions. Why they didn’t just provide the updated games along with the Windows 10 upgrade is beyond me.
Well either they charge you for them in Windows 10 or if they’re free they hope when you go to the Windows store you find something else to buy I assume.
No, the others are right. Sorry, I didn’t know you meant the games that came with Windows 7. Microsoft was silly to remove them.
That is a Microsoft feature - to make everything so you can no longer use it!
And they could care less.
I like playing Freecell, but it was missing even in 8.1. I still have a W7 machine, and I can’t remember the exact steps since I was just following an online guide, but you just have to copy the required files/folders from W7 to the new Windows version. I originally copied them to W8.1, and upgraded to W10, and it still plays now in W10. Even kept my stats.
This is one of those areas where no matter what Microsoft does it’s going to get spun as “wrong”. When (notice I said “when”, not “if”) they include games that some people want and others don’t, they’re junking up the OS with “bloatware”, because deleting something you don’t want is just too hard. When they don’t, they’re leaving out valuable features, because downloading a program you do want is just too hard.
Indeed you can copy fairly old MS games into newer OS versions. You might also need the cards.dll file for the card games. Copy it into the same directory you put the games.
Games like Solitaire (Klondike), Spider, FreeCell, etc got lumped into a single Microsoft Solitaire app, which is part of the Win 10 install/upgrade. The improvement (for Microsoft) is that they now have ads, but you can buy the Premium ad-free version. And my experience is that there are some serious problems loading and running the ads. It’s almost like they’re trying to frustrate you into paying for the game.
This is frequently stated in response to criticism, but I don’t think it really adds information to the analysis.
It’s true that for every action there will people that agree and others that disagree, but the ratio will be different and in some cases substantially different.
For this specific scenario I think the following things are part of the equation:
1 - The games in question have been part of the system for a long time through many versions so people expect them to be there
2 - Due to #1 there is little public outcry about “bloat” related to these items (they’ve always been there)
3 - The cost/impact to MS of including them is close to zero
If I worked for MS and was making the decision whether to include them or not, due to above items and almost no downside (unless there was some internal downside that we don’t know about), the decision would be a pretty obvious one to include them.
I have Win 8.1 (tried Win 10 but quickly reverted) and play one of the MS Solitaire Collection games quite often.
After I installed and ran SUPERAntiSpyware it found from a handful to over a hundred tracking cookies in the MS Solitaire Collection folder on my C: drive after I play any of the card games. If I don’t play any of the games SAS doesn’t find anything, but once I play a game there they are.
Now I run SAS and delete the cookies right after I finish playing a session.