Upgrading to Windows 10 or reinstalling Windows 7

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I'm thinking about either reinstalling a clean copy of Windows 7 or getting the free upgrade to Windows 10.

What happens to my copy of Lightroom 5, and every other game or software etc that needs a key to be able to work?

Will I need to buy it again to be able to use it again?

Only asking because I've only owned this pc for not even 3 years, so I'm a beginner when it comes to the technical side of pc's.
 
Everything carried on as normal when I upgraded to Win10. No need to re-add keys, etc.

Do check with your manufacturer for driver/BIOS updates before starting*, even if compatibility checker says everything is ok.


*eg with Dell you go to the Dell support page and use the tool they provide
 
If you upgrade all your current software "should" keep working as before. If you clean install you'll have to reload everything again but as long as you have your product keys there should be no problem.
 
Depends what you are using. For example my printer no longer works post upgrade, and it Canon say there are no drivers for my printer for Windows 10. I've not looked into it much as I have another machine I can print from.

I also had a VPN soft client that was no longer compatible, though there was an updated version of that. When I upgraded (I think before I said a final yes, I think it went through and listed everything it knew would not work anymore).
 
I'm thinking about upgrading to Win 10......and if I don't like it I can always revert back to Win7.
 
W10 is 'supposedly'' more secure

hmmmm

i upgraded to W10 - canna see a massive improvement
in fact with my slow internet connection these past few months, the Updates that Microsoft FORCE you to download, took ages and crashed the PC many times before successful installed

i strongly advise you have a decent AV package - I use AVAST which - in spite of its annoying pop-ups - does a good job for a 'free' one
also i run SuperAntiSpyware and Malware AntiMalware every evening -- both free

if you do upgrade - back up all your stuff to an external HDD or several flash drives - never can be sure

also search the web for ''Things to DISABLE in W10'' after installed
 
true..^^^ but only [i think] if you choose the ''Custom Install'
 
Upgraded to Win10. I chose the custom install. Seems ok at the moment. Just have to see how I get on with it.
 
I have been using Windows 10 for a few months now, my experience is pretty positive, apart from the Edge browser which seems to freeze from time to time. I have done a couple of Win 7 upgrades and one clean install from scratch & have not had any issues. I had to use an HP generic PCL driver for my HP colour laser printer as there wasn't a specific Windows 10 driver available.

I find Windows 10 preferable to Windows 8.1
 
Not that it is anything to do with photography but if you are a fan of Windows Media Center (American spelling) then WIndows 10 may leave you disappointed as it's not there. There is a workaround but it doesn't work very well if you are using WMC for watching TV via a DVT box
 
Yardbent said:
W10 is 'supposedly'' more secure

hmmmm

i upgraded to W10 - canna see a massive improvement
in fact with my slow internet connection these past few months, the Updates that Microsoft FORCE you to download, took ages and crashed the PC many times before successful installed

i strongly advise you have a decent AV package - I use AVAST which - in spite of its annoying pop-ups - does a good job for a 'free' one
also i run SuperAntiSpyware and Malware AntiMalware every evening -- both free

if you do upgrade - back up all your stuff to an external HDD or several flash drives - never can be sure

also search the web for ''Things to DISABLE in W10'' after installed
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sorry I don't get what you're on about.

you should be using a decent AV and malware no matter what you use. Avast is good, swtich on silent mode to avoid popups.

again you should always backup your system before undertaking a large upgrade. it is also advisable to avoid express settings (again in all installations) to see exactly what is enabled or not.

nothing really new.
 
ShinySideUp said:
Not that it is anything to do with photography but if you are a fan of Windows Media Center (American spelling) then WIndows 10 may leave you disappointed as it's not there. There is a workaround but it doesn't work very well if you are using WMC for watching TV via a DVT box
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media center was always a bit of a clunky option to be fair, XBMC (now Kodi) was always the preferred/better solution.
 
Without asking my Win 7 desktop decided to upgrade to Win 10 on being turned on yesterday in spite of my mistaken thought that I'd disabled it from doing so. My first thought was DAMN Microsoft but during the 2+ hours it took to upgrade I changed my mind and decided to give it a go. I used it for around 3 minutes when an automatic driver update started. There was no way of stopping this as there no right hand corner X or any other way of halting it. It then automatically restarted (without any option to not). For the next hour + the system froze, crashed, occasionally diagnosed and repaired faults, crashed again, froze and generally messed around without any intervention from me. A couple of times Win 10 did load by immediately restarted the automatic driver procedure again and disappeared into a continuing loop once more. Eventually it seemed to just give up and a screen providing the ability to return to the previous version appeared. This I selected and a restarting computer legend appeared together with a continually rotating dotted circle. Here it sat for over an hour until I finally got fed up and just turned the damn thing off. After a count of 20 I turned it on again and with 3 minutes was happily back to Win 7 just as the Great Bill intended. Win 10 updates now fully removed from both my PC's.
 
An update post as Windows 10 started reinstalling again this morning in spite of removing as recommended the KB3035583 update which it seems Microsoft reinstalls each time you remove it as a 'new' version. All I can do it seems to keep the PC going until I buy a Mac is watch it each time I start it.
 
velocette said:
An update post as Windows 10 started reinstalling again this morning in spite of removing as recommended the KB3035583 update which it seems Microsoft reinstalls each time you remove it as a 'new' version. All I can do it seems to keep the PC going until I buy a Mac is watch it each time I start it.
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If you remove then hide that particular update and just upload the Important updates (I think that's what they call them), you should not get it downloading again.
 
An odd thing seemed to happen with my W10 desktop after a recent update it could no longer see an external drive I use quite a bit connected to the router.
It used to appear in Network by the laptop and all was well.
Laptop is still there sharing normally, and the laptop also on W10 could see the PC and drive as normal.
Found plenty of vaguely similar reports but after trying a couple of 'fixes' which didn't work or only worked briefly I simply mapped the external drive and it shows up all the time as if it was connected direct.
It was interesting I discovered that I could go to the drive it couldn't see by typing the IP address which was 192.168.0.1
There was another very recent update which some sources said fixed similar networking issues but it didn't seem to change anything on mine.

Other than that it's been good really but the constant stream of unstoppable updates and restarts is a bit tedious.
It's surprising how much is seemingly unchanged once below the dumbed down interface, for example I was editing the hosts file the other day and it was the same location as XP if not before.
 
4wd said:
An odd thing seemed to happen with my W10 desktop after a recent update it could no longer see an external drive I use quite a bit connected to the router.
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This is normal for Win10, I've mentioned it on another thread. Win10 doesn't default to seeing network devices, I've seen it described as a side-effect of changes to the protection in Win10 compared to previous versions. Any network drive location will need to be mapped using the IP address of the device on the network. If you've got the IP it's then a very simple job to map it.

What I haven't tried yet is checking what happens if you're using dynamic IP addresses on the network, whether or not it will automatically follow the device after the device is rebooted. I use static IP addresses for all 'fixed' network devices.

4wd said:
Other than that it's been good really but the constant stream of unstoppable updates and restarts is a bit tedious.
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I'm not getting very many of those, but perhaps that's because I've inherited Win10 Pro by default coming from 8.1 Pro.


On a related note, I've installed the Office 365 update to Office 2016 today. If you do a lot of Excel spreadsheet design work (I go through phases were I'll occasionally have a month of nothing but this type of work coming in) the new IFS function looks very useful - no more nested IF statements.
 
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