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Old 24th November 2016, 21:55   #21
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I run Windows 7 pro edition and its fine. I have no intention of upgrading to 8 or 10 as I cannot see what advantages it offers apart from a horrible new GUI and that I will lose control. Some berk installed it on 2 PC's at work and it has rendered printers unuseable and all sorts of other rubbish. Its free for a reason because it NAUGHTY WORD-NAUGHTY WORD-NAUGHTY WORD-NAUGHTY WORD-.

Yeah you're right it was free for a reason, I think I'd be really miffed if I'd paid money for it. Between MS.Google & the new investigatory bill coming into power shortly. http://www.independent.co.uk/life-st...-a7436251.html it's going to get harder to keep your privacy intact on the web, better get your VPN's set up.
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Old 6th January 2017, 17:50   #22
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Having had 'fun' with everything from Windows 95 to Windows 10 and many flavours of UNIX, Linux and Solaris. In the Windows world the best since XP is Windows 7. While there may possibly be some small performance benefits with Windows 10 it just isn't worth the aggravation and constant re-checking of all the security and privacy settings after every update (which appear to constantly turn insecure settings back on - tell MS everything by default).
I too have been 'computing' a long time. My first computer(?) was an Oric 1 (research) and 98 SE was a good, stable OS on my first proper PC but long gone now of course. I too found Windows 7 to be more than adequate for my needs but my 7 computer died a death last year, so I almost broke myself buying a new PC a few months ago, with, of course W10 installed (no option these days it would appear). What a nightmare it is - W10 that is, not the computer! If there is anybody out there who is prepared, for a fee of course, to remove this awful OS and install W7, I would be forever grateful. I might even be prepared to swap my nearly new HP Pavillion PC for a decent spec PC with W7 installed.

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Old 25th February 2017, 03:57   #23
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Recently upgraded to 10 and although not generally advertised by MS it was still possible to do so only a few days ago from my version of 7 using the "assistive technologies" route - which I used legitimately but there were no checks. First impressions, GUI is a bit on the square and blocky side in comparison to 7, Vista and XP but it is early days and it might grow on me. Speed is now good again and a great improvement on what I had previously experienced for some time with a failing Vista os, booting and shut-down times in particular are a much welcome improvement.

I used 7 briefly before upgrading to 10 after being a long-term Vista user, and while 7 was tempting I felt that the future rests with 10 and that it would merely be putting off the inevitable. The only glitch after upgrading is a red light now shining out of the headphone socket, started with 7 actually and I believe that it might be an optical sound signal. Possibly a driver issue and if so not sure if it will be fixable, disabling the sound card switches the light off but that kills all sound too.
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Old 25th February 2017, 11:18   #24
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I too have been 'computing' a long time. My first computer(?) was an Oric 1 (research) and 98 SE was a good, stable OS on my first proper PC but long gone now of course. I too found Windows 7 to be more than adequate for my needs but my 7 computer died a death last year, so I almost broke myself buying a new PC a few months ago, with, of course W10 installed (no option these days it would appear). What a nightmare it is - W10 that is, not the computer! If there is anybody out there who is prepared, for a fee of course, to remove this awful OS and install W7, I would be forever grateful. I might even be prepared to swap my nearly new HP Pavillion PC for a decent spec PC with W7 installed.

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The only glitch after upgrading is a red light now shining out of the headphone socket, started with 7 actually and I believe that it might be an optical sound signal. Possibly a driver issue and if so not sure if it will be fixable, disabling the sound card switches the light off but that kills all sound too.
Now sorted. Further investigation identified it as a driver issue, or to be precise a problem with the generic driver as installed by MS. I've now replaced it with a driver from the maker of my sound card (Realtek) and all is well again, in fact the sound is so much better.

As someone has asked me off forum: Yes my upgrade to 10 was free.
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