My Windows 10 has the 8 layout

[Solid Snake]

Good evening! Just now I have noticed something: my Windows 10 (I upgraded from 8.1 to 10 in the last of day of the free dowload) doesn't have the W10 layout, but the 8.1. Some screenshots:
This is the current layout of my SO (notice that it's not 10, but 8):

And this is how the W10 SO look:

I remember clearly that when I upgraded to 10 my SO was exactly like the second pic, but it changed all of a sudden. Do you guys have any idea why that happened and how can I reverse that?

 

[Neemobeer]

Go into Settings > Personalize > Start

Turn off use full screen start menu

 

[Solid Snake]

Go into Settings > Personalize > Start

Turn off use full screen start menu

I did it what you said, but nothing happened.

 

[Neemobeer]

Press [Windows key + r] and type winver and report the output

From the images the start menu looks like it's Windows 10.

In Windows 8 when you click the start button you would no longer see the taskbar. Otherwise the Start menu's look very similar between 8 and 10.

 

[Solid Snake]

Yep, the start menu is really Windows 10. In the windows 8 you don't see the taskbar after you click on the start button, like you said.
But what bugs me is my taskbar, it's not Windows 10.

^^^ Compare the taskbar above with mine. You can see they look diferent. W10 and 8 have diferent taskbar visuals. Mine is the 8 despite my SO being 10.

 

[Neemobeer]

Yes it is

 

[Solid Snake]

Yes it is

What do you mean?

 

[Neemobeer]

Yours is the Windows 10 taskbar

 

[Solid Snake]

Yours is the Windows 10 taskbar

Then why it does look diferent from the last example? When I dowloaded the W10 it looked like the last example, but sudently it became like the first picture.

 

[Neemobeer]

In fact just by looking at your taskbar I can tell you you're on Windows 10 1803

 

[Neemobeer]

Yes it has noticeable changes between builds

 

[Solid Snake]

Notice that this guy has the same version of my SO, but his taskbar differs from mine:

 

[Neemobeer]

Yes because you can disable features in it

 

[Solid Snake]

Yes because you can disable features in it

And my question is: can I make my taskbar look like his's? Why did it change (it looked like his's) back to W8 style?

 

[Neemobeer]

Visually yours is more or less the default configuration of the taskbar in 1803

 

[Neemobeer]

You can make yours look like his. How you do will differ if you have Windows 10 Home or Pro

 

[Solid Snake]

You can make yours look like his. How you do will differ if you have Windows 10 Home or Pro

And how can I do it? Mine is the Home version.

 

[Neemobeer]

Well the only real difference is the other guy has the search bar turned off, so right click on the taskbar > Search and select "Show Search Icon"

 

[Solid Snake]

Well the only real difference is the other guy has the search bar turned off, so right click on the taskbar > Search and select "Show Search Icon"

Is there a way to make my taskbars/layout to look exactly like this?

 

[Neemobeer]

Yeah, you just need to hide/show the different items in the the taskbar settings, unpin or pin the give items and same thing with the system tray icons on the right