Win 10 Ver 1903 Revert.

[derekmiles]

A new Laptop Win10   Home.   The Windows version is HP installed 1903 and me being some 88 years, I'm having great difficulty in understanding what to due to age related forgetfulness.  I already have an HP Pavilion with an earlier  Win 10 version which I reasonably understand.  I have induced Shell but that doesn't help a great deal.  So the questions;

Can I clone the HD of the Pavilion and put it into the Laptop.   Or

How can I have a screen appear on start up that is just a base colour with a few folder icons on it without having to do so much button pressing.

Many thanks in advance and my kind regards     Derek Miles     UK.

[WAWood · Accepted solution]

@derekmiles 

In terms of the cloning -- NO -- The Windows that comes preloaded is licensed for a specific machine and can not be migrated to a different machine.

Sounds like what you are seeing on the desktop is the Start Screen -- MS's poor attempt at forcing smart-phone interface on us all.

What you need is to change your screen to the default Desktop, and to do that, I would recommend that you download and install Open-Shell, which you can get from here:  https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/classic_start.html

There is a also a commercial version (which you pay for) known as Start10 -- and you can get that from here:  https://www.stardock.com/products/start10/