>>>>>>>Anyone with some thoughts?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Windows7 just seems to be more stable.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Windows 10 is fine
>>>>>
>>>>>Yes, there's the occasional image restore - but then also in Win7
>>>>
>>>>Gregory, do you mainly use Windows 10 for your development machine now?
>>>>
>>>>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.
>>>>
>>>>I is the Windows 10 you have that is "fine" an upgrade or did it come with Windows 10 pre-installed?
>>>
>>>Mel,
>>>
>>>>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
>>>
>>>>Gregory, do you mainly use Windows 10 for your development machine now?
>>>
>>>Yes, I do. I have my 'physical' computer with win10 running VMware
>>>
>>>I have C: for windows and D: for the data ( my VMs mainly)
>>>
>>>Any and all development is done on VMs which also run Win10
>>>If my computer fails - I can copy the VMs to another laptop
>>>
>>>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
>>>
>>>As to my 'physical' computer : ( doing so since Vista)
>>>
>>>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
>>>
>>>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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>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?
>
>VMware version 12 runs fine for me - Think I skipped version 7 or so - uninstalled it because it was slow
>
>As to performance, I'm sure you know that
>(1) Give the VMs sufficient RAM
>(2) Give the VMs sufficient processors/cores - minimum 2 - and 2 is sufficient for FoxPro dev machine
>(3) Don't store the data you access a lot ( dbf's and the like) on a network drive - aka as shared folders - very slow
>(4) Instead use VMware hard discs ( config)
> Advantage - they copy very fast to a NAS provided you configure jumbo frames - I copy almost 4 GB/min over my 1Gbit network to the NAS when copying very large files
>(5) Have sufficient RAM on you laptop so that the VMs don't have to page/swap

Thanks Gregory, I will try version 12 again down the road on my next computer. I am doing most of what you already suggest - but thanks for the pointers.