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Old 13-12-2015, 09:12 AM
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Windows 10 - are you upgrading?

Hi Everyone,
I have windows 7 & it seems that almost every day I
am reminded to upgrade to Win 10.

I am concerned that many of my essential programs may not work if I do.
Photoshop CS5 is the main one but I also
have Fitswork4 which is invaluable for processing especially Gradient Removal.
I also use NASA FITS Liberator, Stellarium, Worldwide Telescope,
Astro Tortilla & many other programs.

I use Windows Live Mail for my main mail plus my old hotmail address
& I've already had a reminder yesterday that it won't work by mid January
unless I download a particular file.
When I downloaded that it wouldn't install because
there were "un-named files missing".

I wish that Win 10 had never existed as already I have found the above problem
before I even get into the starting line.

What are you all going to do?

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Old 13-12-2015, 10:08 AM
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Thanks for the heads-up on Fitswork4. I just installed it on my Windows 10 PC and it worked fine. I haven't processed anything yet but if there is something that you want to know then let me know and I maybe able to test it.

In general I have found no problems as yet. Some have but not sure about the other programs
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Old 13-12-2015, 11:16 AM
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Not a chance, I will stick to what I've got.

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Old 13-12-2015, 11:30 AM
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I upgraded my cheap laptop from Windows 8.1 to 10 and it improved the computer dramatically. Haven't had any issues with MaxIm DL, TSX, SGP, ASCOM, PHD2. I don't do any processing on Windows however, purely imaging laptop.

Recently upgraded my main laptop from Windows 8 to 10, it is running via Parallels on my MacBook Pro. Haven't had any issues yet.
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Old 13-12-2015, 12:45 PM
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Flight Sim X crashes every time with Win 10. That's a deal breaker so I removed it. It seemed to work OK with Photoshop in the two weeks I had it installed.

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Old 13-12-2015, 12:59 PM
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Win 10 is ok if you want to relinquish all thoughts of privacy.
If they insist I have Win 10 I'm going for Ubuntu.
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Old 13-12-2015, 01:10 PM
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Flight Sim X crashes every time with Win 10. That's a deal breaker so I removed it. It seemed to work OK with Photoshop in the two weeks I had it installed.

Ulrich
What version of Photoshop?
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Old 13-12-2015, 01:30 PM
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I upgraded to Win 10, as yet no problems with any programmes, CS6, all astro programmes running ok.Don't use astrotortilla but align master running ok
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Old 13-12-2015, 03:25 PM
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I upgraded to Win 10, as yet no problems with any programmes,
CS6, all astro programmes running ok.Don't use astrotortilla but align master running ok

Thanks George -

people here seem to be having some problems:

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1920...art=0&tstart=0

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1945...art=0&tstart=0

https://www.reddit.com/r/photoshop/c...any_effect_on/


I wonder if I can perhaps buy an SSD hard drive and reload Win7 on that
then download Win 10 & try out all my programs.
If they work - great -
if they don't I can just unplug the SSD & plug my old HDD in & nothing will have changed?


The only thing is that my OEM Win7 license might not allow me to load
Win7 & get it registered with another Hard Drive?
I'm in the dark here but over the Xmas holidays I'll have time to try that.

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Old 13-12-2015, 03:52 PM
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If you ghost your hard drive complete, I would expect that Microsoft would accept the swap over.
Once you are connected to win 10 you can't turn off any update or trace.
You'll always be switched to win upgrade even if you turn off the switch..... it sees it as a fault and turns it back on everytime you boot up.
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Old 13-12-2015, 04:03 PM
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If you ghost your hard drive complete, I would expect that Microsoft would accept the swap over.
Once you are connected to win 10 you can't turn off any update or trace.
You'll always be switched to win upgrade even if you turn off the switch..... it sees it as a fault and turns it back on everytime you boot up.

Hi Jennifer,
That's a pain - sometimes I don't want their updates -
it's for things that aren't important.
As for spying - we are already spied on with everything we do -
the computer world is full of nosey parkers.

I don't want to ghost my hard drive but reload a whole new one so that
I leave my working hard drive alone.
That way I can revert back to it if Win 10 ends up not working
properly with all my current programs.


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Old 13-12-2015, 04:34 PM
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Threw caution to the wind and upgraded my desktop from 8.1 to 10 yesterday. After a couple of hours and at least a few reboots (all automatic) was actually a bit gobstruck my old desktop astro picture was still there, along with all my existing desktop icons.

Put classic shell back on and all seems well so far.
Did a full SSD ghost before and after of course, just in case.
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Old 13-12-2015, 04:38 PM
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Flight Sim X crashes every time with Win 10. That's a deal breaker so I removed it. It seemed to work OK with Photoshop in the two weeks I had it installed.

Ulrich
Actually I upgraded to fix something that was bugging me in FSX TBH.
FSX etc running quite happily after the operation. Haven't had to re-install anything as yet. Its quiet out there.....too quiet.......
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Cool

Originally Posted by jenchris
If you ghost your hard drive complete, I would expect that Microsoft would accept the swap over.
Once you are connected to win 10 you can't turn off any update or trace.
You'll always be switched to win upgrade even if you turn off the switch..... it sees it as a fault and turns it back on everytime you boot up.


Not quite right

if you don’t want Windows 10 automatically downloading updates on your home network connection, just set it as a metered connection.
To change this option, open the Settings app, select Network & Internet, scroll down, and select “Advanced options” below the list of Wi-Fi networks. Enable the “Set as metered connection” option. This option only affects the Wi-Fi network you’re currently connected to, but Windows will remember this setting for each individual Wi-Fi network
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I have switched to Wins 10.
Overall I like it.

No real issues with it. The Microsoft Edge internet browser is simplified but I would keep Internet Explorer 11 as Edge makes it hard to download files for some odd reason.

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upgraded and regretted it. win10 is very slick and nice to use, but it has twice required a complete reset on my HP Quad i7 laptop (some aspect of the system is marginally stable, but I don't know enough to figure out what is failing). The last crash followed a system update and the effect was that a critical component would not start, so neither would win10.

It takes a long time to rebuild the astro software - a Win10 reset removes every app and it all has to be reinstalled from scratch - so this last time I decided to dust off an ancient Vista machine and put the astro stuff on that. Since Microsoft is no longer supporting Vista (?), it is likely to be unaffected by disastrous updates. Took a while to dig up all the passwords and old 32 bit drivers and I had forgotten how iffy Vista was with driver management, but it seems finally to be a working system. Seems a retrograde step, but maybe the best approach for now - sometime I must buy a new laptop and see if my astro stuff will run reliably on that under win10. Will also have a look at Linux, to see how much can be done in that environment.

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Old 13-12-2015, 11:00 PM
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upgraded and regretted it. win10 is very slick and nice to use, but it has twice required a complete reset on my HP Quad i7 laptop (some aspect of the system is marginally stable, but I don't know enough to figure out what is failing). The last crash followed a system update and the effect was that a critical component would not start, so neither would win10.

It takes a long time to rebuild the astro software - a Win10 reset removes every app and it all has to be reinstalled from scratch - so this last time I decided to dust off an ancient Vista machine and put the astro stuff on that. Since Microsoft is no longer supporting Vista (?), it is likely to be unaffected by disastrous updates. Took a while to dig up all the passwords and old 32 bit drivers and I had forgotten how iffy Vista was with driver management, but it seems finally to be a working system. Seems a retrograde step, but maybe the best approach for now - sometime I must buy a new laptop and see if my astro stuff will run reliably on that under win10. Will also have a look at Linux, to see how much can be done in that environment.


Hi Ray,
what a pity -
after reading that I don't think I'll update to Win 10 -

I'll leave well alone - everything is working correctly now with Win 7.

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Old 14-12-2015, 05:07 AM
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Hi Ray,
what a pity -
after reading that I don't think I'll update to Win 10 -

I'll leave well alone - everything is working correctly now with Win 7.

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If it ain't broke, don't change it
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I might add that I do not use the Wins pc for astro.
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Old 14-12-2015, 05:55 PM
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If it ain't broke, don't change it

Hi Colin,
Yes - I am starting to agree with that.
I don't feel like re-installing about 20 or more other programs
& then find that some of them either don't work or have bugs -
when they work perfectly now under Win7.

I know at work - my company will keep Win 7 on our computers.


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