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<blockquote data-quote="jeallen01" data-source="post: 1098974" data-attributes="member: 176704"><p>FWIW, I upgraded 6 m/c's (only one of which was built later than 2013'ish) to Win 10 (all Pro except 1 Home) over the last 2-3 yrs, and it was generally relatively painless - and at no cost.</p><p></p><p>The main recent issue has then been with with updates from Version 1909 to V 2004 - mostly went well but was difficult with one 2006-2008 Dell laptop which took a couple of workarounds to get that updated, and now my main Samsung laptop with which I kept getting various failure messages.</p><p></p><p>However, the automated failure messages that then must have been sent back to MS appear to have "triggered something at that end" and so I am now only getting prompts (the latest 3 were today) for new updates to V1909, and which then did successfully install.</p><p></p><p>Therefore I "second" [USER=176362]@Analoguesat[/USER]'s recommendation to update any m/c's on old versions of Windows to Win 10 because it's now, generally, a lot less time-consuming and stressful than it was a year or two ago - and, as I wrote above, it does appear to work with many/most very old m/c's (assuming that the basic m/c spec is adequate - probably a half-decent dual-core processor and 4GB RAM).</p><p></p><p>PS: the process is definitely much quicker and more likely to succeed if machines have SSD's rather than older HDD's, and older m/c's definitely work a damn sight quicker with SSD's than they did with HDD's - writing this post on a 2012-vintage ASUS laptop with a low-power and slow dual-core "mobile" Pentium & 4GB RAM.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jeallen01, post: 1098974, member: 176704"] FWIW, I upgraded 6 m/c's (only one of which was built later than 2013'ish) to Win 10 (all Pro except 1 Home) over the last 2-3 yrs, and it was generally relatively painless - and at no cost. The main recent issue has then been with with updates from Version 1909 to V 2004 - mostly went well but was difficult with one 2006-2008 Dell laptop which took a couple of workarounds to get that updated, and now my main Samsung laptop with which I kept getting various failure messages. However, the automated failure messages that then must have been sent back to MS appear to have "triggered something at that end" and so I am now only getting prompts (the latest 3 were today) for new updates to V1909, and which then did successfully install. Therefore I "second" [USER=176362]@Analoguesat[/USER]'s recommendation to update any m/c's on old versions of Windows to Win 10 because it's now, generally, a lot less time-consuming and stressful than it was a year or two ago - and, as I wrote above, it does appear to work with many/most very old m/c's (assuming that the basic m/c spec is adequate - probably a half-decent dual-core processor and 4GB RAM). PS: the process is definitely much quicker and more likely to succeed if machines have SSD's rather than older HDD's, and older m/c's definitely work a damn sight quicker with SSD's than they did with HDD's - writing this post on a 2012-vintage ASUS laptop with a low-power and slow dual-core "mobile" Pentium & 4GB RAM. [/QUOTE]
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