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Restore Spider Solitaire Windows 10
Finally had to buy a new computer for myself and it’s running Windows 10. So much has changed! Where’s Solitaire and how do I play the same game I’ve been enjoying for years on my WinXP system?
Welcome to the brave new world of Windows 10. That’s quite a jump to go directly from Windows XP [which was released in August, 2001!] to Windows 10, but you can manage it. Lots has changed, but fundamentally you still have a Desktop, a Taskbar along the bottom of the screen and a Start Menu, even if the latter looks a bit different from its earlier cousin.
Well, unless you have a Start screen with active tiles. If that’s the setup you have and you don’t like it, have a quick peek at my tutorial on how to restore the start menu to Windows 10!
Of all the programs included in Windows, however, few get more use than the ubiquitous Solitaire game. Millions of people playing tens of millions of games of Solitaire over the decades. If the programmers had received $0.01 per game, they’d be driving Ferraris by now, no question!
Fortunately, Microsoft knows better than to mess with success, so even the very latest version of Windows includes Solitaire, but now it’s a bigger, better program that allows you to play quite a few different variations on the one-player card game! Let’s start by using Cortana, also known as the search box in the Start Menu. It’s super powerful now and is where you should start every single query related to your system, configuration, or even general Web queries.
Look closely at what I entered (in the light blue box on the bottom) and you’ll see I misspelled “solitare”. Yes, it’s now smart enough to correct for spelling mistakes, and the top match, as highlighted, is Microsoft Solitaire Collection. That’s the one, so you can launch it – because it’s selected already, as indicated by the colored background – by clicking on it or just pressing Enter on your keyboard. Easy.
Now you’re in the fun and far, far more advanced world of Microsoft Solitaire:
Turns out that there are dozens of variations on the card game solitaire and instead of just having one, Solitaire on your Windows 10 system now includes five: Klondike, Spider, FreeCell, Pyramid and TriPeaks. Don’t panic, though, if you don’t want to try these new variations, just choose Klondike and you’ll have the classic game you’re used to playing.
Curious about these others, though? Here’s a brief description of how they work, from MSN.com: