I have upgraded my desktop and my wife's laptop from WIN7 to 10. Both
around 7-8 years old but with newer hardware. The PC is equipped with
E3-1230V2 and GTX1060, with lots of video and photo editing software
installed, two old Need for Speed games, LibreOffice, Thunderbird
mail... Everything went fine after the upgrade and it was free :-)
You may also want to take this opportunity to upgrade the drive to SSD.
Image the Win7 system to a new SSD and do the upgrade. In case of
problem just put back the old HDD and resume business.
C.H.Ling
On 20/03/30 11:59, Peter Klein wrote:
Since there are many fellow computer mavens on the LUG and Olympus
lists, let me pose this question. I am still running Windows 7. The
COVID-19 situation means a I'm stuck at home, which would seemingly make
it an ideal time to upgrade. But, if something goes wrong, then I'm
without everything for which I rely on my computer until I can fix it,
during a time when support or hardware might not be readily available.
My concerns includes hardware drivers, and software I use all the time
(Capture One v. 10, music notation software and ham radio software). I
have good backups of all my data, but not full backups of my entire setup.
My computer is a Dell Optiplex 980 tower desktop, about 6 years old,
with 8GB of RAM, two conventional hard drives, a replacement Dell video
card and a third-party USB 3.0 card. It is not certified for Win10, but
perusals of the Dell support site have turned up a significant number of
remarks that "the upgrade went fine."
I could upgrade, I could wait until the pandemic is over, or I could
wait until I need a new computer. I know "official" support for Win7 is
over. But I suspect that many corporate setups have stayed on Win7 just
like they stayed on WinXP earlier. I don't think Microsoft would let
them all die if some major Win7 malware appeared. And I run a good
virus checker (Trend OfficeScan).
Advice welcome. Thanks.
--Peter
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