On 15/08/2015 14:46, Keith (Southend) wrote:
I have Windows 7 and am told I am eligible for the free WIndows 10
upgrade. My question: WIll this be a clean install and wipe everything
else off? Firefox/Thunderbird, Office, and all my little weather diddies?

I upgraded my main PC (Windows 8.1) and my creaky old laptop (Windows 7)
to Windows 10.

Both went absolutely fine with no problems except the graphics driver
was out of date (which caused a slight issue but was soon fixed). So I
suggest making sure your main drivers are up to date before you go ahead
with the update.

And my old laptop (IBM Lenovo T90 with 2GB RAM) now runs quicker than it
did under Windows 7, especially after I disabled/deleted all those
'live' tiles in the Start menu.

The hard drive was badly fragmented afterwards so once all was well I
deleted the old version of Windows and then did several defrags. That
speeded things up a bit on the laptop.

All my personal settings, themes, email, Firefox etc etc were all kept
though I must admit that I now prefer Microsoft Edge than Firefox on my
laptop as it seems to use far less resources and is quicker and more
reliable.

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Nick Gardner
Otter Valley, Devon
20 m amsl
http://www.ottervalley.co.uk