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If you are using Windows 7, do you plan to upgrade to Windows 10 by Labor day? It will be interesting to see what the stats are by then, for the percentage of users using Windows 7, and using Windows 10. I have two computers running Vista, which I plan to upgrade to Windows 10, and 4 running Windows 7 that I do not plan to upgrade.

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I will start out with Win10 by upgrading a Win7 Desktop [rehabbed to avoid trash] and a Win8.1 Notebook, see how it goes. I have reserved Win10 on 5 other Notebooks [3 w/Win7 rehabbed from trash] and 3 Desktops but 2 of the Desktops will retain Win8.1 and Win7, haven’t decided on the 3rd yet [rehabbed from trash].

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My two computers have Windows 7 installed. I have no plans to upgrade either of them at any time.

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For us across the Pond and elsewhere – when is Labour Day ?

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For us across the Pond and elsewhere – when is Labour Day ?

Monday Sept 7

HP EliteBook 8540w laptop Windows 10 Pro (x64)

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Monday Sept 7

Thanks – What does it celebrate ?

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What does it celebrate ?

Sleeping cars

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Sleeping cars

So you give guys a public holiday for striking – if that happened in the UK there would be more public holidays than working days :D:

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So you give guys a public holiday for striking – if that happened in the UK there would be more public holidays than working days :D:

The Tube drivers are going to want at least a few more to add to their 43 days annual leave before they agree to Night Tube.

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For us across the Pond and elsewhere – when is Labour Day ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Day
9/7/2015

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All W10 Pro at 22H2,(2 Desktops, 1 Laptop).

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I can’t see any compelling reason to make the change – whether or not it is an upgrade only time will tell.

I’l sit back for a few years, enjoy Windows 7 in its stable phase, let others iron out the bugs in W10, software providers adapt their utilities and MS sort out the teething troubles with a Service Pack.

Then I might think about Windows 10 around 2020.

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With having a second Win 7 laptop, I’m diving in on one of them but may wait a day or two to see if there’s a proliferation of Help or disgruntled threads.

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Isn’t that about the time that we will have a new leader of the Labour Party?

Eliminate spare time: start programming PowerShell

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Isn’t that about the time that we will have a new leader of the Labour Party?

Perhaps next year

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We have 5 computers in the house. 1- An older HP laptop that couldn’t go from XP to Win 7 ( HP didn’t put out drivers ) let alone Win 10.
2- An old XP desktop that I got Win 7 Pro 32 bit on and it runs fine but with an AGP video card it’ll never make it to Win 10.
3- 2, 3 year old Win 7 Pro 64 bit computers that I’ll wait and see how things go.
4- A new HP ProBook laptop ( 8.1 Pro 64 bit downgraded to Win 7 Pro 64 bit ) that I bought expressly for trying the Win 10 OS.
I got it setup the way I wanted it and cloned the drive to ( at some point ) put Win 10 Pro on it to see if I like it.
If I don’t, it’ll go back to Win 7 and all the other computers will stay Win 7.

Don't take yourself so seriously, no one else does
All W10 Pro at 22H2,(2 Desktops, 1 Laptop).

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I use win7 but have no plans to upgrade in the foreseeable future, I don’t see a lot of point as I don’t use (so called) “cloud”.

I may look at it in a year or two once the worse bugs have been fixed

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Have several computers around running various versions of Win7.
The plan is to convert one to Win10 and play with it to see if it’s any good.
That will determine the fate of the rest, but as of now I see no reason to change just for the sake of change.

rstew

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I have a Windows Vista computer, a Dell Optiplex 755 with Core 2 Quad, and My wife has a Gateway (think Acer) netbook with Vista. I’m pretty sure I like Windows 10 better than Vista, so I have installed Windows 10 on both of them as an insider.

One of the updates changed the driver for the Synaptic touchpad from the Generic Microsoft driver to the Synaptic driver, but when it did they installed it turned off. I connected a wired USB mouse so that I could try to find the problem, but it never occurred to me that they would install it turned off. It took a little internet search to find the problem, but it is typical of things that happen during an update. Once I turned it on, the Synaptic touchpad worked fine.

This is why you want to let a million other people update first, and find the problems for you, instead of having the updates forced on you on the first day. In any case, I’m not going to update any of my Windows 7 machines now and probably not until 2020. Certainly not until they fix their upgrade policy.

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I also noticed that Win10 automatically turns off the touchpad when a mouse is plugged in, gives a notice to that effect. Mine got noticed during the install as I had it plugged it at the time. I would think the process is in response to problems with where the thumb is during typing, some Notebooks/Netbooks don’t have a switch on them like some models of Toshiba do.

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I also noticed that Win10 automatically turns off the touchpad when a mouse is plugged in, gives a notice to that effect. Mine got noticed during the install as I had it plugged it at the time. I would think the process is in response to problems with where the thumb is during typing, some Notebooks/Netbooks don’t have a switch on them like some models of Toshiba do.

I believe that is a function of the touchpad driver rather than Windows 10. You probably got an updated driver when you installed Windows 10. My Windows 8.1 laptop picked up the same functionality when I updated the driver.

Jerry

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I believe that is a function of the touchpad driver rather than Windows 10. You probably got an updated driver when you installed Windows 10. My Windows 8.1 laptop picked up the same functionality when I updated the driver.

Jerry

My HP and 2 Dells with Win8.1 didn’t.

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I just reserved W 10 today with my HP ProBook laptop w/win 7 Pro ( my test machine for W 10 to see if I’ll like it ), so thanks to all for a heads-up on synaptic. I keep a USB mouse plugged in most of the time so will have to keep an eye on it.

Don't take yourself so seriously, no one else does
All W10 Pro at 22H2,(2 Desktops, 1 Laptop).

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