Done switched today.....

Sound move. The risks of continuing to use W7, even though it was a wonderful OS, just aren't justifiable.

Thanks for the information.   

I posted about this a few days ago.  Thanks Doc.  I gave up on 7 way back when 10 first arrived.  10 is just better under the hood, if not ugly as hell.

Security is a must tho.

I have to say, Windows 10 is just so much better in so many ways than Windows 7 at this point.

Only with Start10 installed  

Oh right! This was a problem.

I switched 6 months ago. I got a new computer and everything. I figured it would be best to take care of this problem sooner rather than later.

Every computer here is on 10....except 2.

One is still on XP....it's ancient...gonna experiment with a to 7 to 10 revival....see what happens....

The other one is this one....and I'm definitely NOT ditching 7 yet....

I have an ancient Alienware laptop that I still use occasionally with 7 on it. It came with Vista and I upgraded it to 7.  Tried to upgrade to 10, but it failed because of no drivers for some of the hardware.  I'm stuck with 7 on that machine.

ESUs are available for businesses, but not for home users, unfortunately.

Make sure you have a good backup...

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4527878/faq-about-extended-security-updates-for-windows-7

Windows 7 will always have a special place in my heart. I still remember how much of a nightmare Vista was, not just in its visual design but how bad the driver support was, poor optimization etc. With Windows 7 it was like an apology from Microsoft after Vista and it was a breath of fresh air for many users.

Doc...my backups are auto and daily and redundancy enabled...and I have 'entertaining' methodology when it comes to security...eg...my mobile phone does not do emails....or banking...or shopping....

It was dead in the water for me....the driver it couldn't 'find' was the network card...so no Internet so no go.

Jafo

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Doc...my backups are auto and daily and redundancy enabled...and I have 'entertaining' methodology when it comes to security...eg...my mobile phone does not do emails....or banking...or shopping....

Now THAT deserves a major bravo. Glad especially about the phone part. Btw, NEVER use a "free" public charging station for your phone/mobile devices.

I still run 7 and 8.1 in VMWare.  Easy peasy lemon squeezy.   And since it's a VM, updates aren't as crucial.

Add to that [currently loaded - tho there's more] - 2 more clones of 7, an XP, SkyOS and ReactOS....

And in V Box...an XP, a 98 and another 7 ...

Dang, Paul.

I upgraded for free a few months ago. However my roommate is sticking to 7 because she fears using Windows 10 and has too many bad things about it. :/

I only heard one bad thing about windows 10 people talked about over the years. That is you can't shut down windows sending about user reports to Microsoft. windows 10 does run smoother than windows 7, except in two areas. The start menu isnt labeled start. This doesn't sound like a big deal, unless your old, and like my dad he didn't know ibm computers. So when he turned on the computer, and went to start, and went to help, and support. He figured it out on his own this way. Those days are over now for other people.

The second issue they been trying to change since windows me. I can't run windows without someway to control it. When I first had a computer with windows on it I needed the control panel to do things. Then they shrank control with the control panel with xp. Good thing a friend showed me how to use the classic shell. Now you have to search for the control panel. I can't use the simplified version it usually doesn't do what I want it to do. I try repeatedly settings it just doesn't do anything. 

About Vista not looking good. I don't understand that. How could anyone not think aeroglass doesn't look better. The problem was the other problems with Vista. Your the first who went back to xp I heard of because of how it looks. Irony the only problem I had with Vista they fixed, which was not being able to get my games to run without a lot of hoops. This was fixed by auto loading to registry when you installed. This then caused registry clutter. Which is still not fixed even till this day 10 has the same problem. They never did fix the problem with Vista. People just learned to live with it. At least they stop trying to get rid of the desktop, like they did in 8. Effectively destroying computers as far as I'm concerned. At least they realised that was a mistake. 

Well , I finally made the switch to 10 yesterday. I'm glad I still had my copy of Start10 which makes it awesome. I have to admit, this version of 10 seems much better than what I recall from earlier versions. So far so good , can't say that I've found anything to complain about. I'm pleasantly surprised.  

--- Ace  ---