I don't like W10, but acquiesced to using it like most everybody else. It's invasive, intrusive and other nasties and tries to do all kinds of things I don't want nor care about. After I made the changes below, it now works more like I want it to... like W7. That is, just run my software and be reliable. 1. Disabled virtually everything W10 would let me and then used O&O App Buster to disable everything on their list. Of course that meant that certain things wouldn't run. Like displaying photos, playing music, opening PDF, etc. When those "failures" occurred, Windows would come up with a box and ask, "which program do you want to use to run your photo, music, whatever"?. Then you go back and "enable" that function. For example, enabling "photos" function when your picture wouldn't display. All in all, I've probably got a half-dozen things enabled that I use. The rest are turned off.... maybe 30 items. 2. Used Revo Uninstaller to remove Cortana, One Drive, Brave, and a couple of other W10 things... can't recall all of what I removed as it's been quite a while... but basically everything "Microsoft" or "Windows" I thought I could do without. 3. Disabled Edge. I really dislike it. 4. Disabled "Create Restore Point" function. I had this fail 8-10 times within a year and kept having to reinstall Windows and redo settings. I finally just updated W10 to get it working again and then disabled it. 5. Used Group Policy Editor to disable Windows Automatic Updates. 6. Set delay times in Windows Update so MSFT has time to catch and fix problems before they get put onto my machine. That's it, off the top of my head. If I think of other, I'll add later. FWIW...
W10 v2004 is the new version. It's causing problems with Chrome, Firefox, and Edge browser. Also the "reset W10" function., where you download a fresh copy of Windows while keeping your programs and data intact, is not working. Other issues, too. The best solution to all of this is to disable Windows Automatic Updates through the Group Policy Editor... and delay the installation of new versions. That delay can be up to 1 year. Sure, you'll be installing the newest version 1 year after it's available, but that will give them time to fix most all of the glitches before they get onto your machine. FWIW...
And BTW... SHAME ON MICROSOFT for putting out such a bug-ridden, crappy update for so many users to suffer!! Side note.... in 2011 I upgraded my workstations system and installed W7. My network ran without significant issue until now in 2020 when I'm forced to upgrade to W10. Gotta say, it's been one hassle after another with W10... I've "reinstalled" it perhaps a dozen times in 18 months to fix problems... all so that Microsoft can monitor/track/monetize my every movement on the internet. (In 9 years, I never had to reinstall W7! And Microsoft says "W10 is better than W7". Pffffft!)