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Win 10 Pro forced upgrade.. sigh.
So I remember last summer probably.. when I was switching to Windows 10 and trying to make it look as close to the classic look with the normal taskbar with no pinning, normal quick launch buttons, a proper and configurable start menu with subfolders to sort my programs according to their purpose. I made it.. somehow against all the odds I did it and have been loving what I achieved. Nice, clean, starts up fast and works.
I updated it a bit, too and to the build 11082 (Windows 10 Pro). After that I rejected any updates, because I had to reconfigure a number of things, which just took unnecessary time. This week, Windows tells me that the build will expire in July 15th and afterwards will slowly not start working anymore and eventually I would have to update..
Ok, Windows. At one point I DID try refreshing my system up to whatever build it was, 14xxx, I don't remember. I did. I then went through all of the hassle trying to make File Explorer look okay, trying to get rid of the "preview build" watermark in the corner (I PAID for this thing! Seriously?!), not to mention the start menu and so forth. At some point, these old tricks ceased to work. I cannot disable the lock screen anymore.. and what is worse, my PC starts up SLOWER than before, giving me the loading circle twice and flinching weirdly between screens. That's what I did and lived through and eventually decided to stick with build 11082, where everything worked and looked the way I like it.
Until now yeah. I've been forced to upgrade soon and with that, I will not be able to disable the stupid lock screen that I never asked for. I had a whole library with links to solutions to things I needed to change, but these won't be working with the newer builds, soon, I'm afraid. Why is it so hard for them to make the lock screen optional? Googling a bit, I've heard others have had the same problem. Most of the possible solutions come from 1-2 years ago for builds where it worked. At some point I found out that "from build 14xxxx (or something) disabling the lock screen only works for Enterprise and Education editions of Windows". REALLY?
I'm actually willing to upgrade to Enterprise if that's what it takes, otherwise I would just like to live in build 11082 forever.
Can anyone please help me? I'm gutted to the point of no return..