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Originally Posted by Gregg Bell
Thanks a lot, Dennis. I didn't even think about computers for sale with Windows 10 that couldn't support them, then I came across a Newegg review where the reviewer said, "Will not support Windows 10. Or 8. Maybe it will run XP." I was like, "Holy Crap! How can they sell stuff like that?"
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Dead easy. It's caveat emptor, and it's on you as the buyer to do your homework and know what you are buying and can expect from it.
As a rule, you get what you are willing to pay for. One question I ask folks is what value they place on their
time. A late friend had the habit when buying cars of getting junkers and running them totally into the ground. Yeah, they were cheap, but the time, effort, and money he spent to keep them running added up. I tried to get across that the way to go was buy a quality used car, maintain it as the factory specified, and run it into the ground. It would cost more up front but cost less in time, trouble, and money over the life of the vehicle.
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Then I saw a 10-year-old Lenovo on walmart.com with Windows 10 and I was very skeptical it would run it. A friend pointed out that middle machine (in the link I sent) came with an option to get the machine with Windows 10 for an extra $30. I doubt I could pull off what you did with installing it from a flash drive.
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I don't see why you couldn't.
MS is doing its best to make Win10 upgrades painless. Installing from the flash drive here was "Plug the drive into a USB slot, access it, and run Setup."
It will take a while and reboot a couple of time, but shouldn't really require intervention from you while installing. Go make coffee and relax.
Yes, you will want to go in and configure it after installation, but you would do that in any OS install.
The trick the second time around was telling it not to go out and look for updates before installing.
I had to do various fiddling to get Win10 to run on the older Dell SFF box because of what turned out to be inadequate hardware support. Win10 ran, but not well. The HP SSF replacement has been a much smoother experience.
On the original Dell install, I added a SSD as boot drive, and cloned Win7 Pro to it. Once I was booted off SSD, I upgraded Win7 Pro install
on the SSD. The result was a Windows boot menu where I could boot into Win10 from the SSD,
or boot into Win7 Pro from the HD, since I hadn't removed it after cloning.
On the HP I didn't bother doing that. I just upgraded the Win7 Pro install on HD to Win10 Pro, then cloned that to SSD and removed the instance on the HD.
Of course, doing what I did requires that you
have the upgrade media to install from. Drop me a PM and I can assist.
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Dennis