Reluctant to download W10

katejo

Am I being over cautious? I have a fairly old laptop (about 6 years) with W7. It is currently working OK and I am not very technically minded/confident. I am tempted to ignore W10 until I need to replace my current one. I am going to back up my documents again today (done reasonably regularly) and try to create W7 back up disks as I never got an installation disk for W7. I know that I should have done that long ago but kept putting it off after my attempt to download to a USB failed.

TonyMMM

Best computer advice ..

"If it's working OK , leave it alone"

If your W7 setup is working OK, why change it ? ....especially to a brand new OS that is bound to have a few teething problems, not to mention software/hardware compatibility problems you may come across.

Jivesinger

You have a year (well, almost) to decide if you want the free upgrade from Windows 7, so there's no harm in leaving for a little while. For most people there's no advantage in being first to have Windows 10 and if you leave it a while, chances are a few bugs will be ironed out.

But I'd definitely make that backup! Something like Macrium Reflect Free will let you take a full copy of your computer.

If it came with Windows 7, there may also be an option from the computer manufacturer to make 'Recovery Disks' which would be worth having.

Oblivion

Fully agree with Tony. You've got a whole year to get the update free and if you decide you don't want it anyway, Windows 7 will continue to be supported for several years to come (Microsoft won't end security updates for your Windows 7 PC until Jan. 14, 2020) by which time you probably will be looking for a new computer.

I may trial 10 on my little Dell Ultrabook which is running 8.1 at the moment, but I shall be waiting for the initial rush to die down and hopefully for when MS will have ironed out some of the bugs.

I won't be letting it near my main Win 7 Ultimate workstation for a very long time, and certainly not until I am fully satisfied that it will run all my legacy software and provide decent drivers for my peripheral equipment.

Fightsback

Don't buy into the hype, if it isn't broken then don't fix it. Windows 7 is still supported until 2020.

KxMx

The PC is just a year old so I will get round to upgrading before the free offer ends.

Netbook is several years old and may well not last a year. In which case, I will either end up buying new with it pre-installed or I may be surprised and need to update before the offer ends!

katejo

Jivesinger wrote: »

You have a year (well, almost) to decide if you want the free upgrade from Windows 7, so there's no harm in leaving for a little while. For most people there's no advantage in being first to have Windows 10 and if you leave it a while, chances are a few bugs will be ironed out.

But I'd definitely make that backup! Something like Macrium Reflect Free will let you take a full copy of your computer.

If it came with Windows 7, there may also be an option from the computer manufacturer to make 'Recovery Disks' which would be worth having.

Making recovery disks is what I intend to do. I did try before with a USB with high capacity memory but it wouldn't let me do anything so I have bought disks to do it.

katejo

Oblivion wrote: »

Fully agree with Tony. You've got a whole year to get the update free and if you decide you don't want it anyway, Windows 7 will continue to be supported for several years to come (Microsoft won't end security updates for your Windows 7 PC until Jan. 14, 2020) by which time you probably will be looking for a new computer.

I may trial 10 on my little Dell Ultrabook which is running 8.1 at the moment, but I shall be waiting for the initial rush to die down and hopefully for when MS will have ironed out some of the bugs.

I won't be letting it near my main Win 7 Ultimate workstation for a very long time, and certainly not until I am fully satisfied that it will run all my legacy software and provide decent drivers for my peripheral equipment.

OK I won't do it. I wasn't sure whether Microsoft was going to force me to do it. This is because I got a warning from AVG a few days ago that July 29th was the day and that I would have to reinstall AVG

Double_V

I downloaded .ISO last night.
I am currently running Windows 7 on Dell Optiplex 9020 (i7).
I want to test the new windows. But I am also little reluctant to try it on my new machine.
I have however Shuttle Cube lying around. But I need a cable VGA to HDMI as my Dell monitors only have HDMI and DPort.

Is Win 10 userfriendly ?
I did not like Windows 8 AT ALL.

Kernow666

downloaded it last night going from W8 which i have only had about 6 weeks , clicked on the link of MS website said i needed a blank DVD or USB storage device so had that ready , clicked install 64bit and it opened up a window , tok about 10mins then went onto installing checking system etc
overall took like an hour and now have W10
couple little problems like having to sign into everything again but ok i guess

katejo

Jivesinger wrote: »

You have a year (well, almost) to decide if you want the free upgrade from Windows 7, so there's no harm in leaving for a little while. For most people there's no advantage in being first to have Windows 10 and if you leave it a while, chances are a few bugs will be ironed out.

But I'd definitely make that backup! Something like Macrium Reflect Free will let you take a full copy of your computer.

If it came with Windows 7, there may also be an option from the computer manufacturer to make 'Recovery Disks' which would be worth having.

re. Recovery disks: My laptop didn't have a W7 installation disk. I thought that there was a way of 'downloading' W7 to DVD's but now that i have looked more closely, it just seems to be the creation of a systems repair disk. Where on my laptop would i find the recovery disk option or is that what is meant by systems repair? My Windows 7 manual assumes that I have an installation disk available.
Please forgive me if this is a stupid question!