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That too - Gregg this largely avoids the need to hack the registry directly.
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Yep. Aside from better control over Critical Updates, a win for me was GPE would let me define scripts to run on startup and shutdown. Startup scripts can be handled on Win10 Home, but capturing the shutdown event and doing something because the machine is shutting down/restarting is another matter.
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My ex-e's migration to Win 10 was hampered by incompatibilities with some adapters/printers they used, video cards, and -- you'd better sit down:
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Gack! I can't remember the last time I had to deal with token ring, but no surprise Win10 had issues. Support for legacy hardware is always a pain.
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Many people buy older 'Windows' computers in order to run Linux, they're cheaper than an older Mac 
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I believe Greg has done precisely that.
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That middle machine's base price is with no disk drive, and it cannot be configured with both an SSD and a harddrive.
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That's the sort of thing I was talking about when I mentioned needing more details on the machines Greg was looking at. My first questions involve ease of service and expansion. SFF machines can make those challenging, and my HP was a pleasant surprise.
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You not only need technical skills to do the upgrades yourself, one also needs inclination - I've lost the latter completely.
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I haven't lost it, but I've become fussier about whether I do it. I got cured of building my own systems from components, and haven't done all that much on the current desktop besides adding an SSD as boot drive and an additional HD essentially replacing the built in DVD player I don't use. The last add was a USB3 PCI-e cards and an external USB3 drive enclosure. I don't see other major changes, as what I have now does what I normally need to do.
I don't know how comfortable Greg is about opening machines and fiddling with hardware. Offhand, I'd guess adding more RAM might not be a problem but going beyond that gets more complicated.
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Dennis