[AccessD] Windows 8 -> 10

[Bill Benson]

Why wiping drive, won't win10 load itself without that? I upgraded my
surface pro 3 with so fuss. Are your posts Gustav and Darryl an indication
I won't get off so easy with my Dell Latitude? Ie, have to wipe the drive?
On Sep 6, 2015 7:34 AM, "Darryl Collins" <darryl at whittleconsulting.com.au>
wrote:

> Yes. Agree.  My windows 10 beta box is my wife's old XP unit.  Clean
> install from a wiped drive using Office 2016 preview.  It is super fast and
> I have been really happy with it to date.  Boots in about 10 seconds flat,
> which is fairly astounding.
>
> There are a few minor issues with the UI on windows 10, but that maybe me
> learning new tricks.
>
> Let say I have liked it out of the box, which is something I never felt
> with win 8.
>
> Cheers
> Darryl
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AccessD [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
> Gustav Brock
> Sent: Sunday, 6 September 2015 5:38 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving <
> accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Windows 8 -> 10
>
> Hi all
>
> Having great success with Windows 10 on my other machines, I decided to go
> for the ultimate test ... to give this old Pavilion - now ten (10) years
> old - an update.
>
> I did a clean install, and it ran fast without any trouble. It even found
> the old Bluetooth device, actually all devices except - as expected - the
> ATI Mobility Radeon X600 chip and a native media card. However, the old
> Vista drivers for these, which worked for Windows 7 and 8.1, still works.
>
> The only issue I encountered was the same as many others have reported,
> that on some older hardware the FastStart option doesn't work. It is turned
> on by default, but it somehow blocks before the login screen appears. But
> even with FastStart turned off, this old machine boots in 30 seconds.
>
> Once again I have to say that Office 365 screams. With our MAPS
> subscription we have five(!) full Office 2013 (soon 2016) installs for each
> user (five users max.) and even on this old machine it downloads and
> installs in minutes. I don't know how MS does this, but it is way faster
> than dealing with DVDs or downloaded ISOs.
>
> Also OneDrive is excellent. I just tell which Microsoft account to use and
> tells Windows to sync my settings, and in a few minutes I have the desktop
> background picture and many other settings than on my other machines. And,
> of course, a synced cloud drive that appears on the machine as any other
> drive. When I take a picture on my Lumia phone, within a minute or so, it
> is present in the picture folder on all my machines.
>
> Back to Windows 10: I also installed it on wife's home machine - an older
> i3 Fujitsu running Windows 7 running "slow" (= experienced) indeed for
> booting. Mounted it with an Intel SSD and Windows 10, and she hardly
> believed here eyes. It is now on in five seconds.
>
> Conclusion: To bring new life to any machine, replace HDD with SDD and
> install Windows 10.
>
> /gustav
>
> ________________________________________
> Fra: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com <
> accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com> på vegne af Gustav Brock <
> gustav at cactus.dk>
> Sendt: 13. september 2014 13:27
> Til: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Emne: Re: [AccessD] Windows 8
>
> Hi all
>
> Well, this old zd8237 is now nearly 9 years old and still in good shape.
>
> So I decided to beef it up with a 128 GB SSD drive and Windows 8.1 Update
> 2, of course as 32-bit.
>
> It installed in half an hour. The trouble was - as expected - the old
> Radeon X600 chip for which the latest driver is for Vista.
> I managed to fix this:
>
>
> http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/94640ce9-9160-4166-8908-acffab5c71d5/ati-mobility-radeon-x600-driver-update-installs-but-screen-goes-black?forum=w7itprohardware&prof=required
>
> The machine now boots in 25 seconds to the logon screen (domain logon) and
> 5 seconds more to the Desktop and runs as well as ever before.
>
> So this must be the end to the myth that Windows 7/8 doesn't run on old
> hardware.
>
> /gustav
>
> ________________________________________
> Fra: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com <
> accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com> på vegne af Gustav Brock
> Sendt: 2. december 2011 22:48
> Til: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
> Emne: Re: [AccessD] Windows 8
>
> Hi Jim
>
> Of course, most old hardware won't do.
>
> But I just installed Windows 7 Pro on my 6 years old HP 17" Pavilion
> zd8000 (zd8237) laptop (P4, 3 GHz, 2 GB ram, 90 GB disk, ATI Radeon X600
> with DirectX 9) and it runs of course not fast but smoothly.
>
> It took a little to locate the legacy ATI video drivers for Vista, though.
>
> /gustav
>
>
> >>> jimdettman at verizon.net 01-12-2011 22:11 >>>
>
>  Try running Win 7 on older hardware and you won't like it.
>
> Jim.
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