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Posted on 11/05/2017 6:20:30 AM PST by dayglored
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ping for later
Win10
Then again, I'm not a gamer -- that pretty much requires a metal install on a screaming monster. Or so my daughter tells me. ;-)
If I get a Surface product the above won't apply, of course, but I'm not there yet. My trusty Fujitsu Lifebook continues to run Win7 flawlessly...
Interesting - I have an unused 64-bit Win7 DVD with the key on it and which was purchased so the “original owners” could choose between 32-bit and 64 bit versions on computers bought w/o and OS installed. Been holding it because I have been planning on building a LINUX machine and installing Win7 with Virtual Machine for when I absolutely needed a few Windows apps. This may give me other options.
bttt.
Bkmk
bump to the top
useful...I am going to install 10 on two win7 machines using this way or via the assistive` technologies website. Need to do before the January first cutoff
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useful thanks!!! news you can use
You can get unused Windows 7 and 8 keys on eBay cheap, and they work. I’ve bought several over the years.
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&LH_BIN=1&_nkw=windows+7+key&_sop=15
and here is a guy selling WIN7 retail product keys for $6
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Windows-7-Ultimate-RETAIL-Product-Key-Genuine-x86-x64-Bit-sent-within-24-hours/202102957920?epid=20007815283&hash=item2f0e466760:g:aIEAAOSw401Z6025
we think alike...just found some on ebay. Will check out your too
I wonder if I can still do a clean Windows 7 install. Still works for me.
Other than those stuck with 8, why on earth would you want to?
Like anything else having to do with computers, it all depends on what you want to do with it.
I personally don't have any compelling personal need to run Win10 -- Win7 works fine for me and I like it better. But at work, I have to support many users who are running Win10, and software developers who are running Win10. So I have to be conversant with it at least. I have a Win10 VM at home for those times when I need to check something out on it.
But other than that, I'm sticking with Win7 in "cold, dead hands" mode. Come Jan 2020 when the security updates stop, I'll just use it for things that don't require internet access; I've got Linux and Mac computers that will carry me forward.
And if the time ever comes that an application program, that I absolutely must have, will only run on Win10, I have my VM.
So it all depends on what you want to do with it.
BFLR
Almost daily I read of 10 users having problems running software. I use a PC for pleasure and retired work tinkering. Sure do not need the issues I see all the time to deal with.
Took long enough to find where MS moved stuff coming from XP. Can only imagine what 10 would spring on me.
Poor wife with 8.1 is always having a fit when MS decides to clog things up with an update download. Refuses to let me turn those off, and I gather 10 forces you to give them access.
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