Microsoft announces "end of life" date for Windows XP

[LoveToCamp]

I did the free upgrade on my Win 7 machine, and I have no problems with Win 10. Works fine, and other than a different look to get to the background functions, it works like my Win 7 did.

Don't be scared, go ahead and upgrade to Win 10. Probably security benefits that they aren't talking about, also.

[tentcamper]

I started using openoffice by sun or now oracle owns it. Its free and works with the ms office suite. Only issue is when there is a new release of office. MS will not release it until it will not work on openoffice. It takes a few months for the openoffice foundation to make the fix. Until the fix is out, the work around is have the file saved to an older ms release and then openoffice can work with them.

I have one win xp machine to support file download from an older ODBII tests tool that only works on xp. I think I built that system in 2000 and up dated it to xp-pro in 05 or 06. Don't think there is enough horse power in that machine for the next os upgrade

Mainly running 7, with one machine running 8 and another running 10.

not sure I like 10, still buggy. A few months ago no drivers for my hp printers. But now the drivers are out there. Will wait a while before I consider moving all machines to 10.

What ever happen to Microsoft's promise that them having access to you system, they would never take any data without permission, or put up popup ads? Sure seems like win10 free upgrade that is always poping up, is a popup ad?

[Padgett]

The current build of Windows 10, 1511/10586 eliminates a lot of the earlier bugs. I have on seven machines here including a pair of z2760 tablets. OK on 2GB, better on 4, sight improvement on 8.

And small plug: After trying many things for several years I finally found a replacement for my aging netbook, an Acer R3-131T-P344 (now on sale on Amazon ).

This does everything I need including being able to display at 1920x1080 on an external monitor, has N3700 (1.6GHz nom,/ 2.4 Ghz burst)/4GB/500GB and running Windows 10-64. Also has Bluetooth 4.0 (new Wireless TPMSs require 4.0) & is quite inexpensive for its power.

ps LibreOffice seems to be a bit better/faster/more... than Open Office.

pps security is not free, you need to work at it. That said I do not use a MS account to log in, keep my local accounts. Also dumped Edge, use IE 11 (also configurable) and have both Windows Defender and Microsoft EMET (5.5 now) set paranoid for protection.

[scrubjaysnest]

Went thru the lets see if we can get the win 10 on the win 7 machine parade yesterday. Everything went fine until the last second then got the dreaded unknown failure code. I uninstalled a driver that win 7 didn't really like even though it worked fine. Also removed a security program that win 8.1 didn't when we tried it on DW's machine. Another day today and will try again while I finish up the solar redo on the TM.

[Padgett]

Big thing I found was to make sure all Microsoft critical and optional patches are installed first.

[scrubjaysnest]

Originally Posted by Padgett

Big thing I found was to make sure all Microsoft critical and optional patches are installed first.

+1

Also when it checks you system remove any programs that it find not compatible.


Tried again today but the system crashed, that maybe the questionable hard drive.
So far DW is very happy with win 10 although she says it has a few quirks but not like win 8.1.

[Padgett]

PM with details of HD that crashed but Amazon has PATA and SATA 250 GB for $23.

With the Jan27 release of Win 10, it has cured a lot of problems.

[scrubjaysnest]

Just started setting up a new win 10 machine. So far no problems. All my mapping software is up and running.