goddammit Microsoft, why do I have to remove your fkking internet explorer icon and store icon after every update! noo I don't want it in my bar. gtfo! leave my settings as they were! How hard can it be? Think: does this fuck up someone s personal settings? if yes , DON'T DO IT.

Classic Shell, free, fully customisable, just saying.
http://www.classicshell.net

M$ probably thinks:

"why wouldn't anyone want easy access to our store"

instead of:

"why do we continue to support a store that no one uses and is full of shitty apps that don't work"

Why don't you switch to Linux or OS X?

@Letmecode "Windows 7 (...) what drives me nuts" - yeah, it's not like they actually improved that in 7 F**KING YEARS OR SOMETHING (honestly, I probably seem like a Microsoft apologetic now, but it really grinds my gears when people complain about a product while using an old version of it)

@Letmecode If you think so, great, but it really doesn't bode well with me to complain about a piece of software doing something wrong in an older version, especially when that thing has been fixed (see Active Hours in Windows 10)
EDIT: I apparently can't type properly today.