I want my old windows 7 games back

I hate Freecell and Spider Solitaire and all the rest of the 'included' games that come with Windows 7. Not only are the mechanics and the graphics crap, the advertising really bugs me--this is what we pay M$ for when we purchase or upgrade the OS?

I have seen some suggestions that the old Win 7 suite of games can be restored from somewhere in the Windows-old folder. Can someone provide a link or layout a tutorial on how to do this?

And while I'm at it, is there anyway to uninstall the Win 10 games? I want to get rid of everything that includes advertising--it's just spam.

I want my old windows 7 games back

Windows 7 Games for Windows 10 Fall Creators Update

is there anyway to uninstall the Win 10 games

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DWFII said:

I hate Freecell and Spider Solitaire and all the rest of the 'included' games that come with Windows 7. Not only are the mechanics and the graphics crap, the advertising really bugs me--this is what we pay M$ for when we purchase or upgrade the OS?

I'm told that you can install the W7 games from WinAero. Be warned, keep hold on the installer, the next Feature Update is likely to uninstall them again.

Get Windows 7 games for Windows 10

Me, I prefer the simplicity of the older versions used from Win '95 up to XP. I copied mine form an old XP machine, a Feature Update doesn't 'seek and destroy' those.

And while I'm at it, is there anyway to uninstall the Win 10 games? I want to get rid of everything that includes advertising--it's just spam.

You should be able to right-click on them and select Uninstall. Whatever you do, don't uninstall the Store. It can be near-impossible to reinstall it, and it is required to keep useful apps like Caculator updated.

See also:

Uninstall Apps in Windows 10

Berton said:

Or did you mean Win10?

Anyway, the install of the older versions gives a list of individual programs that can be unchecked if not wanted.

Yes i did mean windows 10...sorry.

the install of the older versions gives a list of individual programs that can be unchecked if not wanted.

Are you talking about the WinAero install?

I downloaded it but I see that my computer is ready to update as soon as i turn it off tonight so I guess I'll wait til tomorrow to check that out.

Berton said:

No, the downloaded file from WinAero for installing the earlier games. I think there is something for WinAero at the bottom of the list or later during the install of the games that can be unchecked.

Now I'm confused...when you said: "the install of the older versions gives a list of individual programs that can be unchecked if not wanted", weren't you talking about the WinAero app? If not then what?

I just installed this...looks good. Anyway to consolidate all these games in a folder and place it in the startup menu?

Right now, each game is listed individually under the recently added list. Games run fine but I would like to get rid of the Microsoft Solitaire collection tile on the right hand side of the start menu and replace it with a tile that opens a WinAero folder.