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& then if you scroll down a bit there is
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(a limited reprieve).
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.
I've already found plenty of things that worked just fine in 7
So much time wasted on that ! (I'd love to find a good,
tabular "equivalences" cheat sheet, but even then . . . . )
tabular "equivalences" cheat sheet, but even then . . . . )
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
On Thursday, July 4, 2019, 1:21:00 PM PDT, Carl Distefano <cld@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This may be old hat, but it was news to me. A free Windows 10 upgrade is
still available from Microsoft.
With support for Win 7 scheduled to end in January, I decided to upgrade
my home machine to Win 10. Since the widely-publicized deadline for the
free upgrade ended in 2016, I assumed that I'd have to pay for a license. But then I ran across this:
If you're upgrading a single machine, you can go here:
Click "Download tool now"; after the download completes, run the Media
Creation Tool.
The first time I started Windows 10 it failed with an "invalid user
profile" error. This was fixed simply by restarting Windows. I then
encountered the dreaded "Windows has loaded with a temporary profile"
message -- meaning that any changes to the Desktop and settings are lost
when you log out. An easy Registry edit fixed this. So, my factory-
installed edition of Windows 7 Home was successfully upgraded to the
Home edition of Win 10.
But then I remembered that I owned a legal copy of Win 7 Professional,
which I had only ever run in a virtual machine. I entered the product
key and, sure enough, a few minutes later I was running Win 10 Pro.
--
Carl Distefano