That would be the 32 bit version.
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 64bit Service Pack 1
Posted on 08/01/2015 2:27:53 PM PDT by RBStealth
Does anyone know if there’s a easy way out if something goes wrong with the Win 10 install (such as a restore point)?
Windows 8 was an abomination out of the box.
Expecting people to deal with that mess out of the box, was horrid.
But with the “Classic Shell” utility which is a replacement for the start menu that also did general tweaks about the system.
It was quite good and better than Win7.
Classic Shell has a release candidate for Win10, that didnt work on my machine, caused it to churn. So I’ll have to wait.
My dell tower went smoothly and so far only a few hiccups and some improvements.
The hiccups were Avast VPN which works now. I map a shortcut for the snipping tool that I have learned to love. For whatever reason it was not in any program, accessory, or windows feature as a shortcut or menu item. I found it in the windows directory.
I miss the guest account. It made my wife create yet another account. She has her PC but my printer works better and mine is newer. However I am against granting admin privileges. I hear those Avast AV dings a lot and she installs stuff on hers that I find questionable and I get rid of.
As for improvements, Sony Vegas Preview window is clear and clean. The color representation is more normal.
Pretty much everything carried over even though backups were ready.
You can but you’ll have to pay for it; the free upgrade is only for 7, 8 and 8.1.
“Does Win 10 make my PC look fat?”
Yes, but you want that, it will make you look skinnier.
Works better than a fat tie.
I found it
Start —> All Apps —> Windows Accessories
Oooh, now that’s mean
“Does anyone know if there’s a easy way out if something goes wrong with the Win 10 install (such as a restore point)?”
All I know is, that you’ve completed the install, you can automatically downgrade to 8.1. With Win7 your out of luck.
Win10 does have rollback restore points, but then again if your talking incomplete install, with a mess on your hands, then reinstall your original Win7/8.1
I would definitely make an ‘image backup’ of your current OS partition/drive before upgrading to Win10.
That way, you can return to the ‘image’ of the previous version, if disaster happens during the Win10 install.
I currently use Macrium Reflect Free for Home Use edition to create ‘image backup’s on a USB external drive.
http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx
Wrong, wrong, your Win 10 is free for the next 10 years.
My experience is with Acronis making Win7 backups at home.
these installed would always be kind of glitchy and not a rock solid as the original install.
Thanks, I appreciate it.
Whatever floats your boat. I was never interested in “upgrading” from XP. I have 7 on one computer and it’s hardly different and works better and worse in various ways than XP. Now when I am eventually forced to upgrade to 10 I’ll lose more of my older utilities and have to replace them. That is if new comparable ones are even available.
Looks like Microsoft is following the usual pattern of every other OS sucking very hard.
Well when I got the notice in June I read it is free for one year. I guess I’ll find out
Looks like Microsoft is following the usual pattern of every other OS sucking very hard.
Intel's upgrade model is "tick-tock."
Microsoft's is "tick-suck."
Before going from 8.1 to 10....do I need to backup stuff in Chrome.... like bookmarks etc?
no, amazingly, it preserves all your applications and settings. My win7 was bad, now its running better.
Later
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