Windows 7 support ends

If one migrates to Win 10, does that mean that the older (2006 in my case) Office programs of Word and Excel stop working? And does that mean you have to cough up an annual fee for the new Office versions?

AFAIK, Office 2007 will run on Windows 10 but earlier versions probably won't. None is fully supported.

You could try the open source Libre Office, which is free, very poular, and is very like the latest MS office. It is compatible with Office documents, files etc.

Now that my Draftsight has finally stopped I've decided it's time to upgrade to W10 on a new computer. Rather than backing everything up to an external hard drive, can I just put the hard drive from my W7 computer in as a second drive on the new computer (D: drive?) and tell the new computer not to boot from it? Then I won't be able to forget to back something up.

I have just updated from Win 7 to Win 10, having previously checked to see which of my programs will work it told me that my Office 2003 is not going to, so I purchased a licence key from ebay for Office 2016, it was very expensive at just under a fiver.

I duly did the FREE update to Win 10, and so far everything that was working on 7 is still working on 10, including Office 2003 and a whole host of other older programs.

It was quite a painless procedure to do the update, and so far I am pleasantly surprised at how well I am getting on with Win 10 after all the bad hype. I think I will update my Office to 2016 though just to get the extra features now available.

I actually cloned my SSD onto another new one, then did the upgrade on the clone, so I still have the original Win 7 SSD in case it all went wrong.

Phil

Yes. Window only boots from the first disc. The MBR on the second disk is ignored. Telling windows to mount the second drive as D: is also easy - see this description.

Dave

More accurately, the boot sequence can usually be changed by accessing your BIOS - that little message telling you to 'press XXX to enter BIOS' at startup.

Modify these settings with care.

Neil

I still get support from Norton on a spare ancient PC that uses XP.

Well bit the bullet and did an upgrade to Windows 10 for nothing .

A local computer firm gave me advice he reckons the freebee will be stopped soon.

Apart from what seems more complicated at first am getting the hang of W10.

All my antique programs seem to be working.

Edited By Windy on 29/01/2020 23:43:44

Eudora still works. It hasn't been supported since 2006 but has worked on every Windows version since. Probably because it doesn't use the registry and lets the user put its data files wherever he chooses.

I rarely use Windows but had my desktop computer set up to dual boot with Linux and Windows 7 pro, primarily so that I could run Fusion 360 and a few other odd programs that would only run in Windows. Being concerned that Autodesk are likely to withdraw Windows 7 support for Fusion I decided that I had better upgrade to Windows 10 before it is too late.

To start with I made a backup of all personal files on the Windows and Linux installations.

Next I downloaded and ran the Windows upgrade .exe file, being careful to choose to keep all the files on my system. The first problem was that the upgrade program told me that I hadn't enough free space on the Windows partition of my primary solid state disk. Fortunately I had some unallocated space on the disk but it was at the end of the disk and my Linux/ partition was in the way between that and the Windows partition.

So, abort the upgrade, boot the computer from a Linux live disk and use gparted to move the Linux partition and expand the Windows one into the newly freed up space. Rebooted and everything seemed to be OK.

I tried running the upgrade program again. This time it seemed to be going OK but after the first of the restarts it performed the computer wouldn' boot at all, neither into Windows or Linux. It just displayed this:

error: unknown filesystem.  
grub rescue>

After a bit of internet research I managed to boot into Linux. I then installed a program called boot-repair and ran it. That restored my Grub boot system and I was then able to continue the upgrade which, after several more restarts seems to be working fine. I now have a fully activated Windows 10 pro and Fusion 360 is working fine.

Russell

Have upgraded my 64 bit laptop as well with 10 less difficult than the main 32 bit desktop.

Only problem was getting wireless network to connect after the 10 install but finally sorted it.