>>>>>Anyone with some thoughts?
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>>>>I have Windows 10 at home and Win7 at work. I prefer Windows 7. My home machine, a Dell, has gone through all the upgrades from Win7 to Win10 via 8 and 8.1. It was a nightmare. I often had to do image restores. I was on the phone for a whole day with MS (Win8 era) regarding the fact that my Updates were not working at all. Solution: re-install.
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>>>>Windows7 just seems to be more stable.
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>>>Windows 10 is fine
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>>>Yes, there's the occasional image restore - but then also in Win7
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>>Gregory, do you mainly use Windows 10 for your development machine now?
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>>Some of the problems I had would most likely have led to a loss of data if it had been on my development machine..... as I had accidently left Windows 10 Update on which I usually turn off. It downloaded Windows Anniversary Update and pretty much everything was gone - all stuffed into an old Windows.old folder I assume. Anyway, when I started the computer the next morning it took a few hours to get past all the updates - which I had no idea which ones - and then finally when Windows was up and running it had upgraded to Windows Anniversary as a fresh install - everything was set back to like a new computer.
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>>I is the Windows 10 you have that is "fine" an upgrade or did it come with Windows 10 pre-installed?
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>Mel,
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>>I is the Windows 10 you have that is "fine" an upgrade or did it come with Windows 10 pre-installed?
>I's a preinstall which I have modified
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>>Gregory, do you mainly use Windows 10 for your development machine now?
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>Yes, I do. I have my 'physical' computer with win10 running VMware
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>I have C: for windows and D: for the data ( my VMs mainly)
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>Any and all development is done on VMs which also run Win10
>If my computer fails - I can copy the VMs to another laptop
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>I back up my VMs on a NAS drive each day - if there's any problem ( including windows update) I restore the copy of the VM of the day before
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>As to my 'physical' computer : ( doing so since Vista)
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>I always have a 'recent' image copy ( I have several tagged with the date they were taken) - so I can always do an image restore
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>In fact - I do the windows install ( windows, drivers, configure, software) in steps doing an image backup between each step. I can go back one or several steps
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>Before any major windows update , I take an image backup - If anything fails ( during or after the update ) I can always go back
Thanks Gregory, seems like you do with the VM's what I do. I have them on Drive D: and I can do a Lenovo OneKey restore at anytime without touching my true development players. Speaking of that, I am still using VM version 6.07 as I found version 12 slower. Are you experiencing that?
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