My Windows 10 has the 8 layout

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Solid Snake

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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:
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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?
 
Solution
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"
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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"
 
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Solution
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
 
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