markngolf wrote:
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1. 8.1 can be made to look like Win 7.
2) Win 10 is the best OS Microsoft has developed. Very few have had difficulty with the installation.
3. Of course, if your system is incompatible or if you have not done all MS updates, that could create issues when updating to Win 10.
You are only "stuck" if you want to be.
Just Google, "How to make Win 8.1 look like Win 7. You'll find a host of information.
Mark
I tried several times to run the update, but each time it failed with one of several error numbers. After a lot of digging around with google - MS was no help at all - it appears that the errors all pertain to systems where *either* there is insufficient room on C, or the libraries have been moved from their 'expected' places.
Years of system admin experience on *real* computers taught me the wisdom of keeping data drives separate from system drives, so I have my library folders all on an E drive. They work, so this is clearly not an 'illegal' place to store them. If windows can work and access them while they are on a separate drive, then why can't the upgrade be programmed to look into the registry and find out where they are, before performing whatever is needed during the upgrade? They are right there in the box, alongside the C drive, so it shouldn't be *that* difficult.
In my programming days, the programmers were supposed to work around the users' needs and requirements, but apparently MS is above that. If your system isn't set up *their* way, then tough... If I moved them onto the C drive, then there certainly would not be enough space to run the update, or probably to run windows itself. There is plenty of space available on my C drive to run the upgrade, if they could only find the libraries...
My system has all the updates, and is fully compatible with running windows. It is set up the way I want it, so why should I have to change it for them?
Apart from anything else, what the heck do they need with the libraries anyway??? They contain my data files. There is no system info on there, so there is no reason why an OS upgrade would need to mess with them. Just read the 8.1 registry to find where they are, and copy that pathname into the registry for 10. Any first-year programmer should be able to handle that, but apparently not micro$oft...
I have nothing against W10 itself - indeed, never even seen it running. No doubt my next PC will come adorned with it, and I will then get to figure out what they have changed this time. Until then, I will stick with what I have. I am certainly not about to go around re-configuring my whole system, just so the upgrade will work - or just as likely, find something *else* that I am not doing their way!
You say that very few have had problems with the installation, but a quick glance at google gives the lie to that statement. I am sure that those with problems are a relatively small minority, but with the number of existing windows machines out there, a miniscule minority could still number millions. I found many others who were having the same problems that I was, and who knows how many other error numbers are out there?
If it wasn't for PS, LR and a couple of my music programs (Finale, Sonar...), I would have abandoned Microsoft completely a long time ago. They have forgotten what the term "PC" stands for. It is a *personal* computer, but they are forcing everyone to move towards more business-oriented approaches with each new version. I live alone, so why should I need to log into my own PC with a password before I can use it? We used to be able to switch 'em on and go... Why do I get messages telling me that I don't have permission to access certain files or folders? I need to contact my 'administrator' for permission to delete certain junk files - I don't have an administrator, nor do I need one. Every few days I get an 'action center' message saying that it is important that I log into MS live with my latest password. I did it the first time, in case there was some deep sinister reason, but the message comes back again and again...
Besides, I don't see the point of making 8.1 look like 7... I would prefer to be running 7, but changing the cosmetics to make this *look* like that achieves nothing.