[GTALUG] update to Win 10, a war story

[John Moniz]

On 04/10/2016 09:53 AM, James Knott wrote:
> On 04/10/2016 09:40 AM, John Moniz wrote:
>> On 04/09/2016 03:58 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>> 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/
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I don't think I have any problem software. I was worried about GNUCash 
but just checked and W10 is listed.