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infinia said:
you have a year to migrate your old windows to a new hardware platform + OS upgrade, after that all bets are off. IMO get a backup or HDD image before the years is up and that should hold most folks.
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I downloaded w10 on to a USB drive.
The version I downloaded does 32 and 64 bit.
I run both on my pc on 2 separate drives. The 32 bit still runs old 16 bit software of which I still have a couple of programs I still use a lot.
 
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Mooly said:
There's a limit to what you can change on a Windows PC before it objects that its now totally different, so a new processor and new MB and RAM is way beyond that limit. Its a totally different PC 😉

Not surprised it won't activate tbh.
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In my experience, a new CPU sometimes will be accepted (AMD & W7) as well as additional Ram (very likely to be accepted).. A new MB indeed is stretching the limits too far, for too many HW components change.
 
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I don't know whether this has been mentioned but the W10 update keeps badgering until you inadvertently click on Windows Updates and it is done without your full realisation.

I stopped the nagging with a registry entry and it has killed the nagging completely. if anyone is interested, please let me know? (As always, the disclaimer is that registry changes are not for the fainthearted.)
 
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cliffforrest said:
. . . all running very stable W7 pro, and they will stay that way for as long as possible . . . .
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Any guess as to when it will become impractical to continue with Win7?

After stumbling down the Win95 - Win98 - Win98SE path, where it seemed like each new turn fixed some problems but created other problems, I switched to Win2K. The change wasn't entirely voluntary but I quickly came to like Win2K A LOT, and stuck with it until I completely replaced the computer in late 2009 - almost 10 years. (In retrospect, I probably should have switched to Win XP but I was reluctant to abandon an OS that worked very well just to get some features of unknown value, and risk acquiring unknown performance problems.)

The new machine had Win7 already installed. Although I seriously considered wiping the hard drive and installing Win 2K, I was soon won over by Win 7. Every major program or utility I had previously used under Win 2K installed cleanly and ran right off under Win 7, and Win 7 obviously exploited the new hardware in ways Win 2K couldn't even dream of. The number of Win 7 Updates coming from Microsoft is a little annoying but I don't see any good reasons to change OS.

So how long can do you think Win 7 will be viable, even if it's not fashionable?

Dale
 
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So how long can do you think Win 7 will be viable, even if it's not fashionable?
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W7 will remain useful as long as MS allows it to be. XP lived a lot longer than it would have because of large corporate clients.

I worked at Motorola for 41 years. We used to have our own in house IT department that controlled all the PC's on the corporate network. XP corporate edition and only XP corporate edition was the only MS OS allowed on the Mot network for years. Only ( about 5) specific hardware packages were allowed. The corporate edition did NOT respond to MS updates, all updates were tested by IT on our hardware, and then delivered to the individual PC's on the weekends. Once a month there was a PC shutdown Sunday where your PC could be expected to reboot several times. MS still supports this mode for large corporate clients on W10.

The issue with XP is that the 64 bit version was never really properly developed or supported by MS, so all of our XP machines could only access 3.7 GB of memory. This really sucked for the simulation guys. All of the Cadence IC design tools were migrated to Linux boxes with huge memory banks. The ADS guys were stuck with day long sims. One of my co-workers had 4 PC's, 3 for ADS sims.

Mot transitioned to outsourced IT and W7 was allowed. MS announced
"the end of support for XP" and W7 machines started appearing in the plant. W8 machines were never allowed on the Mot network. Somewhere around Christmas 2013 there was a malfunctioning W7 update that killed dozens of machines. The PC was corrupted and less than knowledgeable users (who didn't know what FORMAT meant) lost their hard drives. MS and our new IT company went rounds and rounds, and XP lived on in the corporate world. I was still using my 10 year old Dell XP box when I left the company last year.....in fact XP is quietly still supported my MS for some large clients like banks and the US government. Why? Many ATM's and POS systems still run XPE (XP embedded).

I had subscribed to MS's IOT (Internet Of Things) program and tinkered with XPE. Guess what offer I got from MS a few weeks ago? Yep, a FREE download of W10E, but only for two specific hardware platforms, one of which is the popular Raspberry Pi 2.
 
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It's only application software that prevents you using even Windows 3.1 machines. It depends on what the PC is used for. If you never need to upgrade any of your applications then your old computer will live forever, or at least until electronic failure.

Any hardware failure will be pretty terminal.

I've had instances where the OS has ultimately given up with such simple upgrades as adding bigger HDDs.
 
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Are you happy with This !

Are you still trying to stick to the optimistic side of the game waiting for Microsoft to somehow save its face when it comes to Windows 10 privacy concerns? Latest revelations might help you rethink the way you trust your Windows 10 powered machines

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It doesn’t seem to matter if you use a Microsoft account to log on to your computer or not, the operating system sends your data no matter what, including your passwords.

Following are the instances reported by the analysts where it was discovered that data was being sent to the Microsoft servers:

* Text entered is stored in temporary files and an encrypted transfer is made once every 30 minutes to the following servers:
o oca.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
o pre.footprintpredict.com
o reports.wes.df.telemetry.microsoft.com
* The analyst found 35 MB of data being sent to the servers after the web camera was turned on for the first time after Windows 10 activation.
* It is further confirmed that the data from the voice port is indeed being transmitted even when Cortana is disabled. Over 80 MB of data is sent once every 15 minutes, when the computer is idle.
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Scary Analysis of Windows 10 Confirms Privacy Concerns
 
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More food for thought/Action !

Even when told not to, Windows 10 just can’t stop talking to Microsoft

It's no wonder that privacy activists are up in arms.

http://arstechnica.co.uk/informatio...indows-10-just-cant-stop-talking-to-microsoft
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If you know how to, then these could Very useful to help disable the Spyware in W10.If you don't, then the earlier Free Apps i linked to will enable you easily to disable some of them 😉

Disable Windows 10 telemetry - Pastebin.com & http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=LjxW3yAA

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@ esgigt

Yes they are TRUE !

More than shocking, Disgraceful. Why anyone would "update" to W10, or buy a new comp with it on, after knowing how it spies on you etc, is a mystery to me ?
 
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