Windows 7 to 10 transfer advice

parcival

We currently have 2 machines - a Windows 7 desktop and an old laptop running Linux mint. Both run very well.

We have straightforward requirements - email, web browsing.

On the Windows 7 computer we use Google Chrome for web stuff which includes banking, buying stuff etc. We use the Windows firewall and the free Avira anti virus. We also have Malwarebytes free edition. This machine also has various spreadsheets, documents and Powerpoints. We use an email client - Windows live mail which gives us the functionality we need but I understand is no longer supported. Windows live mail has storage folders with many hundreds of emails that only exist on this machine. All of the data (documents, music, photo's etc) are backed up onto an external hard drive.

The laptop runs linux mint and is only used for web browsing - nothing financial, no emails - just a playaround machine.

Given the demise of Windows 7, we would like to buy a new desktop with Windows 10. The existing Win 7 machine would then be used by OH for web surfing - nothing financial and could act as an additional backup to the new machine.

No problem to buy a new machine and set it up (probably with SSD). No problem to get all of the music, MS Office stuff, photo's etc loaded onto it.

Question really is about the email client. Does Win 10 have one? I have heard that Thunderbird is very good. How easy would it be to transfer all of the old emails in Storage folders over to the new client on the new machine.

Many thanks

debitcardmayhem

Install TB on your w7 m/c import from windows mail, then transfer the profile to the new machine. However why not just update it to w10?

parcival

Had thought about updating Win 7 to Win 10 - would have the advantage of 2 Win 10 machines. Really just that Win 7 machine is fine as it is - runs very fast, plenty of capacity.

Only doing anything as don't want to be running an unsupported OS for critical things like banking or booking holidays!

debitcardmayhem

parcival wrote: »

Had thought about updating Win 7 to Win 10 - would have the advantage of 2 Win 10 machines. Really just that Win 7 machine is fine as it is - runs very fast, plenty of capacity.

Only doing anything as don't want to be running an unsupported OS for critical things like banking or booking holidays!

So then you have two supported machines, W10 won’t slow it down

grumpycrab

parcival wrote: »

Question really is about the email client. Does Win 10 have one?

The Win 10 Mail app is horrible IMHO - totally different to use compared to Windows Live Mail. Whatever you do, get a mail program installed and any offline email data migrated to it (if this is important to you); Thunderbird (and installing it next to WLM) has already been suggested.

mksysb

Your doing it round the wrong way, all the security stuff such as banking, booking holidays etc. ought to be done on the linux machine, it's much more secure than windows.

parcival

Not disputing that. However we have some very large and complex Powerpoints that simply will not run on Linux (OpenOffice)

mksysb

parcival wrote: »

Not disputing that. However we have some very large and complex Powerpoints that simply will not run on Linux (OpenOffice)

Yes, that's fine, you can use your windows machine for powerpoints etc., was just saying that if you have a linux machine as well, you are better off using that for banking etc.,

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how old and what spec and models are the laptops?

Me thinking: convert the linux box to win 10, possibly add cheap ssd?. On other pc install win 10, ssd (possibly 500gb or bigger?), and could install virtualBox to support a virtual Linux Mint PC

just an idea...