First update your virus/malware apps and run a scan.

Since you should be running backup software anyway, get backup software that does disk imaging. Then (1) make a new, clean disk image (not an incremental) on a removable drive and (2) make sure your rescue-boot drive works.

Then if Win10 doesn't work I believe you can just go back to your disk image with no problem.

And don't expect everything to be free. For years, MS has been putting add-on software companies out of business by incorporating them into Windows. Many of the apps really didn't belong in the OS. But it gave users a reason to upgrade and stay inside the Windows ecosystem.

I suspect many, like solitaire, will no longer be free (I got tired or that in the 1990s after I won a couple of times). They will be ad supported or pay to remove the ads. Others will no longer be part of Windows, but you can buy them at the Windows store where MS will make a commission.

MS saw google/iOS and realized that when others are giving away the OS, MS is going to lose market share by selling theirs.

They also looked at how much money Google and Apple were making doing three things (1) making a commission from store sales (2) making a commission from ads and (3) selling your personal information to marketers.

So as they saying goes, if you can't beat them, join them ... and Microsoft joined them.

It's a whole new world for MS, and you have to give them credit for seeing the handwriting on the wall and changing course mid-stream.

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