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I remember long print jobs on an Epson dot matrix. Would overheat and have to cool down before resuming printing. Fun times.

Excellent food for thought. Thanks!

I think it is significant that Dell itself says Win 11 is not supported on my Alienware 17 R5. Indeed, some of the drivers are nonDell, such as Intel and NVIDIA, but there are things unique to Dell, such as Alienware Command Center, the associated OC controls, Support Assist, etc. Also, even now, Windows Update offers some weird drivers such as for Xeon (an 8th Gen i9 CPU is in the machine), and others seemingly inappropriate with weird (old) dates in the driver name – I just hide those offerings and get the needed – and presumably tested – drivers through Dell. It’s not just drivers that are updated through Dell, but some Alienware apps. Alienware Command Center is integral to running the machine with its full capabilities. If it stopped working (properly) at some point under Win 11, it would probably not be a good thing. All that said, I do not know for sure exactly why Dell says Win 11 is not supported on my Alienware 17 R5 laptop…

Pretty well all the articles on the Web about upgrading to Windows 11 (in my case from Windows 10 Pro) concentrate ONLY on meeting Microsoft’s requirements. Well, I have a Dell Alienware 17 R5 laptop which easily ticks all of MICROSOFT’S boxes, so you might at first say that the upgrade to Win 11 would be a no brainer. However, when I venture to Dell’s support (sic) page for  my machine, I am warned up front that Win 11 is NOT SUPPORTED on it. Why? Because Dell in their ‘wisdom’ (sick!) won’t offer updated drivers, etc. for the machine for Win 11. Thus, Microsoft’s requirements for Win 11 being met don’t matter because Dell, despite Alienware being their flagship/top tier line, won’t support back to the 17 R5 in Win 11. So please, in articles about upgrading to Win 11, do  stress also the need for the manufacturer of Microsoft-ready machines to support Win 11. Needless to say I am p**sed off at Dell in this case!

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Has anyone done ‘Fred’s reinstall’ on a Win 7 Pro system (x64 in my case) that had originally been Home Premium and was upgraded to Pro by purchasing a Windows Anytime Upgrade (WAU) key? While comments that a WAU Pro key ‘should’ work are of some reassurance, much better would be to know it actually DID work for someone. [Any such successful use of a WAU key, for any upgrade path, would be good to know, if not a Home Premium to Pro instance.] Thanks.

Links to apparently legal source of downloadable Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 iso file(s):

http://www.mydigitallife.info/official-windows-7-sp1-iso-from-digital-river/

and of related interest is:

http://www.mydigitallife.info/create-windows-7-universal-iso-with-all-editions-selection-on-install-with-ei-cfg-removal-utility/