[GTALUG] update to Win 10, a war story

[James Knott]

On 04/10/2016 09:40 AM, John Moniz wrote:
> On 04/09/2016 03:58 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 09, 2016 at 01:29:45PM -0400, James Knott wrote:
>>> I had similar when updating¹ the W10 version in a virtual machine on my
>>> notebook computer.  The update failed for no apparent reason.  Also,
>>> this was a W10 to W10 update.  Putting more memory in the computer
>>> worked for me too.
>> Except the solution here was to remove memory, not add memory.
>>
>>> 1) I say updating, as calling anything from Microsoft an upgrade would
>>> be overly optimistic.  ;-)
> I have a laptop for a particular application that has to use MS
> windows. It is now running on Win7. I've been resisting the move to
> W10, despite the constant nagging of the MS 'helpful' notices. This is
> a production computer and interfaces with the government frequently.
>
> Should I bite the bullet and switch to W10? I'm afraid the government
> might force me switch some day, and it'll surely be after the free
> switchover window is closed.
>
> Any thoughts?

Are you running any software that might not work with W10?  Don't forget
Windows 7 support has already ended with security support ending July
2017, IIRC.

I'm not to keen on W10 either, but expect I'll update before the free
update ends.

BTW, you might want to install something like Classic Shell, to get rid
of that gawd awful W10 user interface.
http://www.classicshell.net/