XP.
Posted on 12/31/2020 7:14:13 AM PST by dayglored
I not only don't want to upgrade to 10, I want Windows XP back.
I have in the past for Windows 7 but not now.
Windows 10 is adware and spyware and other reasons I will not upgrade until I get a new pc I put together. Even then I will install Windows 7 on it first. Microsoft is forcing other software companies to block Windows 7 use.
So are the ebay $30 upgrades mostly legit?
Not here, went from Vista to Win 10. Bit of a learning curve. Lost 2 programs from the Win 98 era. Worst thing of updating is 2 steps forward and three back. Did salvage hardrive from last putter and am using it for storage and system copy.
Hard to know. Personally I would not trust them. Probably some are legit, but the only way to tell is to have a SHA256 checksum of the install ISO (or disk), and compare it against a SHA256 sum of the original upgrade ISO. Without some sort of real verification like that, I wouldn't risk it. Frankly if I were upgrading now, I'd probably cough up the $120 (depending on version) for an official copy.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=windows+upgrade+from+7+to+10
Your mileage may vary.
Wow! I'll bet it was.
I can’t let go of my Windows 7. I sit upstairs in a white gown with a wedding cake desktop background...
Ok, I’m not THAT fanatical, but I’m still keeping it close until I find a cure for its inability to start. I had to move on to 8 and 10 but nothing will ever top the 7.
I would still be running XP if it could run the current applications. Started running Windows at the 3.4 release.
BTTT!!!
Sounds like my Windows 7. Nobody seems to want to fix it, so I wait and hope. Meanwhile I have an XP too, I removed the guts and buried them in a kleenex box in the attic, until the resurrection comes for old hard drives. I was maybe 10 years old when the XP croaked...then came Windows 7...but nothing has ever consoled me about the coma my Windows 7 lies in, to this day.
XP.
Primzry? Nope, secondary or. Linux mint cinnamon is my primary. But I still run w7 for all my games and digital art programs.
> Sounds like my Windows 7. Nobody seems to want to fix it, so I wait and hope.
There may be ways to get it working again, but first, back up your data if at all possible.
You can back up a hard drive that won't boot, if you use a "disk-image" backup program that boots from a CD/DVD. I've had good luck with Acronis, there are others also. Then at least you'll have your data files in case something goes wrong with any attempts at repair or reload.
Or... If you can extract the hard drive from the failing computer, and mount it as an external drive on another Windows computer, you may be able to copy your files off it and back them up.
If you still have the original Win7 install disks, there may be a "recovery mode" available if you boot from those disks. Try to backup (as above) first.
That depends on the smartphone brand you buy.
iPhones are updated for 5-7 years as best I know.
The old Motorola Droid Turbo I had stopped getting updates after 1 year and is the reason I'll not buy another Motorola smartphone.
My Samsung Galaxy S9 is just over two years old and there will be no more Android OS updates to it, though Samsung may continue Security Updates for it.
I'll hang onto my S9 as long as it works at this point. I don't believe in buying the "latest and greatest" smartphone every other year. I don't do more than text, occasional video and listening to music on it. I don't do my online banking with it or anything that has to do with my personal information on it. Text, video and music is enough for me. As long as the battery holds a charge through the day, I'm sticking with what I have.
Some of us believe, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
I have an ipad and an iphone which fill my communications needs.
My old Windows 7 based HP laptop ran a dozen or two apps that I have collected over the years. When it broke I was basically without a computer. I chose to buy three old, virtually identical HP laptops and ported my old software to all three. This happened two years ago. I have little concern that any future hardware failure will greatly inconvenience me.
Recently I bought a chess database program which won’t run on my laptops due to a “missing dll”. I decided to experiment with upgrading to Windows 10. The upgrade won’t run because my Windows 7 is not up to date. The laptops won’t update completely for reasons unknown. The new software isn’t valuable enough to me to solve the problem or to buy a new laptop.
All of these upgrade issues are simply of no interest to me. If I was working with others on a project, things might be different. I have no economic incentive to move to Windows 10.
I run both Win10 and Ubuntu, and I find that stability depends a lot on what you're doing with it. Application stability is at least as important as OS stability. These days, all the major OSes are pretty good in that regard, as long as you keep them patched up to date, and get the latest bug fixes. Applications generally tend to be more buggy, in my experience anyway, because there's more pressure to add more and more features and get new releases out quickly.
I am learning to live with Apple now, but I am still using a Win 7 computer for my accounting and other similar things.
It works well for all I need it to do, but nothing lasts forever, especially not computers.
I want to build or buy a new desktop and then transfer the old Win 7 computer to it “as is”.
I have a never used copy of Win 7 still factory sealed in the box waiting for me to do this “one of these days”.
The old me would have just upgraded to 10 and soldiered on, but not now.
I didn’t leave Microsoft. Microsoft left me and now I don’t want to give whatever they have become any new business.
I don’t want to feed The Beast any more than necessary.
Yep, current is an LG V20 with replaceable battery and works fine. LG updated the phone for S. Korea but appears unwilling to update this model to Android v9, which new enterprise software requires. So If they abandon their phones after 5+ years I won't buy another LG, I guess perhaps Samsung this time.
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