Updated: September 10, 2015
Let me start by disclaiming a few things. One, I am not advocating you upgrade. Two, this article is meant to help make your upgrade easier and safer should you decide to do it one day. Three, I happen to have spare boxes used for testing, so I can sacrifice them should there be a need. Four, this article isn't the upgrade process itself, which we will have separately very shortly, this one is all and only about the preparation steps for the upgrade. Sounds complicated? It is.
now for the rest of the story: http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/windows-10-upgrade.html
I'm not interested in Win10 right now.
But the link you provided has tons of info on it about all kinds of stuff!!
Thank's for posting it. B-)
FL/GA PLS., post: 335864, member: 379 wrote: I'm not interested in Win10 right now.
But the link you provided has tons of info on it about all kinds of stuff!!
Thank's for posting it. B-)
I will stay with W7 until it expires... after that I will probably continue without it connected to the internet (as I already do). "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"
PS: you can safely Clone your Windows partition and mess with the copy. rather simple procedure with free software.
My initial reaction to Win10 is ...... well, not overly impressed yet. I've found a feature improvement or two, a broken part (big surprise) and a feature or so I liked that were taken away.
I find it interesting that there is a task bar on each of my two monitors. I could see that being handy from time to time.
When I open a "browsing folder" from the task bar and attempt to right click on anything, windows explorer crashes. In a quick internet search, that seems to be fairly common.
Games have been taken away. "New and improved" online games instead. Yup, well, I like the old games that are reside on the machine.
Contemplating returning to Win7 during the 30 day "grace period".....
I want to play around with MINT on a "test" computer. Perhaps there will not be a need for me to ever install Win10. 😉
[QUOTE="Peter Ehlert, post: 335865, member: 60" if it ain't broke, don't fix it
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If only companies would live by that motto.... software and others. If there is a product that works, let us improve upon it instead of changing it and breaking it.....
FL/GA PLS., post: 335869, member: 379 wrote: I want to play around with MINT on a "test" computer. Perhaps there will not be a need for me to ever install Win10. 😉
Mint is good. You will Not be able to run Acad (after v14) or a couple other propitiatory programs. I dual boot (Mint has a tool for that in the installer). I boot with W7 for Acad.
PS: Mint is based on Ubuntu and that is based on Debian. they (the Linux Mint team) have a lesser known version: LMDE, it is based on Debian and has no Ubuntu programing or other influence... (Ubuntu is the "Microsoft" of the Linux world)
Would Mint work on a really old machine? I am not entirely sure of the operating system any more (vista maybe, perhaps the one before vista).
The last time I even booted that machine, it was taking forever to boot.... longer than I wanted to spend trying to get stuff off of it.
John, post: 335895, member: 791 wrote: Would Mint work on a really old machine? I am not entirely sure of the operating system any more (vista maybe, perhaps the one before vista).
The last time I even booted that machine, it was taking forever to boot.... longer than I wanted to spend trying to get stuff off of it.
The LMDE version of mint should boot just fine on your older hardware. If for some reason it doesn't there is a distro called puppy linux that will run on a windup timex wristwatch.
John, post: 335895, member: 791 wrote: Would Mint work on a really old machine? I am not entirely sure of the operating system any more (vista maybe, perhaps the one before vista).
The last time I even booted that machine, it was taking forever to boot.... longer than I wanted to spend trying to get stuff off of it.
I use LMDE Mate and Mint 17.2 Mate and a couple others on a "old" Thinkpad T61, I think they were produced in 2007 or so and came with XP.
I use "out of the box" drivers that come with the OS.
Make a live DVD or live USB, boot the machine with that and check that wifi and all of the stuff works. If it does, install it. The "live" version is not 100% complete and it runs S L O W because of the USB/DVD speed compared to a hard drive.
list price is $0 but with volume downloads it can be $0.00 or less
"just do it"
Microsoft is downloading Windows 10 to your machine 'just in case'
Microsoft: "For individuals who have chosen to receive automatic updates through Windows Update, we help upgradable devices get ready for Windows 10 by downloading the files theyÛªll need if they decide to upgrade.
"When the upgrade is ready, the customer will be prompted to install Windows 10 on the device.Û
"The symptoms are repeated failed 'Upgrade to Windows 10' in the WU update history and a huge 3.5GB to 6GB hidden folder labelled '$Windows.~BT'."
