Posted on 07/27/2018 4:50:34 AM PDT by dayglored
I agree with your comments, however I use the software Parallels to load either Win 7 or Win 8.1 (I’m a computer consultant so it depends upon the client - Win 7 in my Mac Mini Win 8.1 in my Wife’s MB Pro) and both OS’s are up and running together - really easy to cut and paste from Mac to Win and back.
Excellent way to go!
Imagine that!
Sorry, can’t use Apple stuff.
Gosh, now that you mention it, my Win7 machines seem to be free of the forced upgrades, too. And you're right, they run fine! Amazing!!
I haven’t used Parallels myself, but over the years I’ve heard very good things about it.
May you continue to be so blessed.
Unfortunately most Windows users don't even know what Task Manager is, much less know how to use it to kill off the updates-related tasks. Enjoy your good fortune!
The only reason I got it now is because I'm forced to use it at work and I find ways of tweaking at home then using that info at work.
I updated my 2 laptops that have Windows 10 on them this week.
One updated to the latest 1803 while the other stayed at 1607 and that was from a brand new install and running updates again and again. It just won’t update. It says I have the latest version. I have found ways to do so from searches on the internet but I should not have to do these steps.
My other pc’s have Windows 7.
7 is so easy to setup and modify.
10 does stupid things like stop you from changing the type of font you want without a 3rd party tool. It was builtin since Windows 95 but gone in 10. You can change the title bar color but not the inactive window title bar. The Control Panel disappeared from the Start button and now you have to right click on the Start button and the latest removes the Control Panel link altogether and now you have to type in Control in the search field to bring it up. You also cannot just drag and drop a shortcut from the Start menu as before. It involves extra steps. Also not every file/folder or program can be dragged to the Taskbar to create a shortcut as before. There are other aggravating things like the spying!
Window 10 versions
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/itpro/windows-10/release-information
I use a lot of VM’s. I probably have 30 or more, mostly VMWare, significant portion Virtual PC, and one or two Virtual Box or others. All my important software is in them. Not only are they portable, but the software people aren’t real polite and sometimes tend to step on each other or misbehave in weird ways, so it sandboxes that. I had one package one time, that not only installed a custom serial port driver, it kept the driver file the same as the Windows one, so you install another program, and it doesn’t work right, but has no way of knowing (and nor do you) that’s it’s using a custom hardware driver from their competitor!
My migration plan when I no longer feel comfortable running 7 as the primary OS will be to run all those VMs under Linux as the host OS.
Mine too! This is a great OS! I wonder is MS would be interested in buying the rights from whoever made it and selling it themselves. This 8/10 stuff just isn't working out for them. ;)
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