>I currently have an XP, so I'll be buying a new pc very quickly. I've been advised to go to Win 7 instead of Win 8 as it's easier to learn.
>I want to make sure however that all my old VFP .exes will run on 7. Are there any problems in that regard? Also, which version of 7 is recommended?
>Home Premium? And what about 32 vs 64 bit? Any problem running the exes on either?
>
>Thanks,
>Rich Murillo

At first I got a Win7 from Dell. An XPS 8500 to be exact.

Anyway, I upgraded to Windows 8 and was feeling good about that, but...

But, I've had to "refresh" 3 times already because it went bad. In fact, I just did a recovery last Friday night because it was all crapped out and Windows Update wasn't working. And about 5 months ago I had to take a day off work to work with MS Support because Windows Update would never update. I was on the phone with them for 10 hours. In the end we did a "refresh" and I had to re-install all my programs and such.

I have Dell Premier support and the last guy I talked to said this refresh business seemed pretty common as a solution from MS. The refresh works great and it is quick and all, but you lose all your programs unless you've created a System Image Recovery on a USB device and you recover from that instead of the refresh.

Still, you will lose settings and programs that you've changed or installed since the last time you made your image.

At work I have Windows 7. I had Windows 7 at my previous job. No problems at all. No refreshes nothing.

At this point in time I can no longer recommend Windows 8.