Windows 10

[Deleted member 688153]

I was going to upgrade to Windows 10 on a dual boot SSD today, but instead I spilled about 600mL of skim milk into my computer case through the top vent, destroying the motherboard, RAM, and after-market cooler.

I've spent the last two hours or so cleaning up all the milk from the case, desk, and surrounding carpet. The keyboard, motherboard, RAM, and cooler have all been thrown in the bin, the CPU, graphics card, and SSD have been dried off and are now sitting in a box of rice to remove moisture, and the carpet drycleaning people have been called and will be here some time this afternoon.

This was only one of my two desktop computers, though, so I'm not totally screwed.

Anyway, as I was saying. I have another SSD, so once I place that into my other computer I'm going to do a dual boot with Windows 7 Ultimate SP1, and Windows 10 Professional. Anything I should watch out for?

 

[Deleted member 688153]

Apparently this has had 29 views, yet zero replies or votes on the poll.

Y'all are boring. Too busy buying old fusty racquets and arguing over Djokovic I guess.

 

[fireandwind]

I am your man
I have been using windows 7 for years and it was very stable OS. But when I had a problem with a game I was playing I had to upgrade to Windows 10. I didn't have any issues with Windows 10. I have SSD as well. That is purely for a game since it boot up so quick and very responsive. The other hard drive is 1 TB but slow. So I made SSD master drive and 1 TB drive slave.
I had dual boot up system in my desk top. One was Windows 7 Ultimate and the other was Windows 7 Home before SSD.
If one fails I could use the other one. Now I have only Windows 10 and it is very reliable and stable.
I have extra hard drive so if there is any problem I can stick that one in and boot up to fix the other.

 

[oble]

Nothing to watch for I guess. I've ditched Windows 7 myself and I'm only running Windows 10 Pro on my desktop. Running only a single 1TB SSD. Next up on my to-buy list is a NVMe SSD and stick my OS in there I guess, because a SATA SSD is obviously not fast enough for home use

Oh, best place to store milk? In your computer, in a custom liquid-cooling loop

 

[Deleted member 688153]

Nothing to watch for I guess. I've ditched Windows 7 myself and I'm only running Windows 10 Pro on my desktop. Running only a single 1TB SSD. Next up on my to-buy list is a NVMe SSD and stick my OS in there I guess, because a SATA SSD is obviously not fast enough for home use

Oh, best place to store milk? In your computer, in a custom liquid-cooling loop

Yeah, someone else made the liquid cooling joke on another forum earlier as well when I mentioned this.

I'm was going to use a 512 SSD for the dual-boot, but that's the one that's in the rice now, so I'm using an old 128 I have lying around. It's only an experiment anyway.

 

[Levi_Ackerman]

I was going to upgrade to Windows 10 on a dual boot SSD today, but instead I spilled about 600mL of skim milk into my computer case through the top vent, destroying the motherboard, RAM, and after-market cooler.

I've spent the last two hours or so cleaning up all the milk from the case, desk, and surrounding carpet. The keyboard, motherboard, RAM, and cooler have all been thrown in the bin, the CPU, graphics card, and SSD have been dried off and are now sitting in a box of rice to remove moisture, and the carpet drycleaning people have been called and will be here some time this afternoon.

This was only one of my two desktop computers, though, so I'm not totally screwed.

Anyway, as I was saying. I have another SSD, so once I place that into my other computer I'm going to do a dual boot with Windows 7 Ultimate SP1, and Windows 10 Professional. Anything I should watch out for?

Don't do it!

 

[oble]

Don't do it!

Why not?

 

[movdqa]

I started the thread on W10 free upgrades from 7 and 8.1 a few months ago.

I upgraded three systems, home desktop, work desktop and an old laptop. I wish that I hadn't on the work desktop as W10 makes the Title Bar bigger and I haven't been able to get it down to W7 sizes. Presumably Microsoft did this to improve the ability to touch the buttons or move the windows with your finger on the screen. I have a particular application on this system that requires small title bars. So my solution will be to run a Windows 7 VM on the W10 system. I added RAM to get the system capable of running the VM - fortunately I had spare sticks in my desk.

W10 is fine once you fix the annoying stuff. It's certainly much better than W8 and W8.1 at throwing new things at you that take some time to figure out and fix. Performance is better than W7 too though my office desktop has a video card driver issue so that the display resets itself every hour or so.

Most of my computing is done on a recent MacBook Pro 15 - plenty of power, none of the annoying Microsoft crap and they don't have the annoying DRM for Apple hardware. If I want to move an OS, I just copy the files to a new disk and then boot it. If I want to install an old version, I just need to get the DVDs and install it. If I want a new machine, I just restore off my Time Machine backup. None of the license-pak crap.

I only wish that Apple sold a desktop in a tower and not a trash can.

 

[SoBad]

Resist all software "upgrade" attempts at any cost.