Jordan,I share most of your thoughts about Win10. I have to sometimes fix and install things on my son's Win10 machine. It is frustrating to work with, and my son ridicules my ineptitude with Win10. It is not a tempting proposition. Your can safely continue to do many things with a virtual copy of Win7 by cutting it off the net. Logically, the main operating system should be connected to the internet. This is something that I have found very usable with my Win2K virtual machine that I use to run some DOS apps, Win 3.1x apps (Quark, Ventura), Adobe Acrobat 6, Pagemill, etc. I have not encountered any problems with this setup, I communicate with the main operating system via shared folders. The main operating system could be Win10 or Linux (Zorin OS - Windows lookalike with Wine, Ubuntu - widely supported, CentOS - root priviledges, more professional). Oracle VirtualBox is my preferred platform for running virtual machines.
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If you must, you must. Admittedly, this has much to do with my loathing of W-10 and pointed avoidance of it, but I am continually exasperated when I revisit it by the many, many -- and completely unnecessary -- re-namings and relocation of basic and formerly familiar items or procedures. So much time wasted on that ! (I'd love to find a good, tabular "equivalences" cheat sheet, but even then . . . . ) I've already found plenty of things that worked just fine in 7 but which are incompatible with 10. I don't know what I'm going to do. Maybe take my 7's offline, and use Linux or something else for things like webcrawling. Or dive into VMs. Jordan