Windows 10 Transition goes faster and easier than expected

[BonzaiDuck]

Maybe this thread-post is like a "Selfie." But I had to share my experience on this matter. I've been using Windows 7 since maybe 2010. I've had to chase down red-bangs in my event logs by source and Event ID, to find solutions to them. I have to take care of six machines with only two sharing the same hardware.

So just switching to a new OS also included a balance between invested time and guess-timated future time investment.

Everyone I know has put it off, but everyone I know is over 65 years old. A cohort 50 or younger seem to be the new crazy people, walking through a store-check-out while appearing to be talking to themselves, or just standing on a street-corner having a conversation with God, or so it could seem.

After seeing pictures, Cortana and other glitz, I was really put off by it. I work with real software, manage my licenses, don't like even the thought of managing my bank accounts with a cellphone. I've got to see it all spread out in front of me. I want to review statements on the fly in full-8"x11" depiction before my eyes.

So I'm not going to change or go up more steep learning curves -- easily.

But I've come to the point with my dual-boot Win7/Win10 systems (now three of them installed in the last 10 days or so), that tweaking 10 to give me the ease and access by habit of 7 moves along faster than you'd think. I even suspect that 10 has some -- AI feature . . .

So far, I don't have the complaints or frustrations others on this forum have mentioned over the last several months.

And they must have fixed and improved the Update process, because I can't seem to find Windows Update anywhere. M$ must be so confident that the updating is so solid, they won't even let you look at it.

Maybe I don't know something. Then . . . Pray -- Tell.

 

[Carfax83]

And they must have fixed and improved the Update process, because I can't seem to find Windows Update anywhere. M$ must be so confident that the updating is so solid, they won't even let you look at it.

For a new OS, Windows 10 is really great and it will only get better. Windows 7 is roughly 10 years old now at this point if you count development time. Out with the old and in with the new I say.

Anyway, to find Windows update simply slick on the Windows icon on the bottom left, and then go to settings :thumbsup:

 

[StinkyPinky]

Wimdows 7 is 7 years old, not 10. I do agree it's time for it to be put to sleep though.

 

[Carfax83]

Wimdows 7 is 7 years old, not 10. I do agree it's time for it to be put to sleep though.

Well I did specify if you count development time it's 10 years old, or even more.

But even 7 years old is a very long time in the tech industry.. Windows 7 is a mature OS with all of the kinks worked out. Windows 10 by comparison is brand new and hasn't really hit it's stride yet. But even so, it's still better than Windows 7 at this point in my opinion.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

So far, I've set up dual-boot systems for Win 7 and Win 10. I'm able to share my POP3 Outlook folder between them.

And I've figured out how to do a slow migration from 7 to 10 one software package at a time and at my leisure.

The system was set up with PrimoCache to cache the main boot SSD C: drive to about 1.5GB of RAM, and a separate cache-task caches a hard-disk E: to a 60GB SSD and then to another 1.5GB of RAM.

So I had to decide what to do with two operating systems each with their own PrimoCache configuration. For the two OS's, I split a 500GB SSD into two 250GB Basic Primary partitions, having shrunk the Win 7 partition by half. I then split the SSD-cache into two 30GB partitions and logical volumes, and the 1TB HDD into two 500's.

After carefully removing or reassigning drive letters within each OS, I was able to set up the 500GB HDD partitions to each cache to one of the 30GB SSD partitions, and applied the same L1 memory cache.

Eventually I'll remove the Win 7 partitions, but more likely just to shrink them further while expanding the drives for the Win 10 and recreating the cache tasks.

And of course I'll want do duplicate my game installations on Win 10.

But I imagine having some appreciation for having an older OS with established software and usage configuration available, even after I complete the full enchilada of bringing Win 10 up to the full usage and software installations as the Win 7.

Anyway, that's how I found a NIC misconfiguration on my laptop. Win 7 had sluggish wireless access; Win 10 had configured itself with the right driver and access was much faster. So I went back and tweaked the Win7 NIC configuration, and everything was wonderful two ways-to-Sunday and back again.