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Top feedback summary for September 17
- Yeah but don't worry, just switch to Windows 10 and you will be good to go with Cortana and everything ^^
the end of life for Windows 7 is January 2020, that's 11 years of service 🙂HotCakeX Not everyone likes Win10. 😉
I've been on Win7 Ultimate since it was released, and I like the ability to schedule my Windows Updates for when I know I will be asleep, and I like the colored icons in the Win7 user interface. When I did move up to Win10 (during the "free upgrade" period), Windows Update would run whenever the h*** it wanted (just because I went afk for 5 minutes did not mean I intended to be offline for 30 minutes!), which meant it was rebooting when I still had unsaved data in a program. Plus the Win10 user interface is too blocky, its icons too easily confusable for those of us with less than stellar eyesight.
As long as I can continue to run Win7, I'll happily give up Cortana as I don't need it anyway. But please don't assume EVERYONE wants to move to Win10 for something that COULD be backported to 7 if Microsoft saw enough of a market to make it worthwhile. 🙂The update process is changed. there have been a lot more options added to the Windows update settings since you last time used Windows 10.
there also have been lots of improvements in terms of visual and appearances.
Try the new version 1903, if you still see any problems, you should use the Feedback hub app to report it. (that's if you want it to be fixed.)
I like Windows 7 as well, but it had its own time. I was never attached to it, when Windows 8 came out i jumped right on it, same for 8.1 and 10.on Windows 7, i hated the fact that I had to install 10000 updates after fresh installing the OS. on Windows 10, there are cumulative updates. 1 update for the whole OS, 1 update for Antivirus. no more messing around with thousands of updates that can corrupt the whole OS if not installed in order. and god knows what the order even was back then!
- I'm using Dell E6420, so that means i can upgrade?
Oh of course!
I have a similar laptop with the same hardware specs from Sony. It initially had Windows 7 home on it and the company didn't even bother to give us support or drivers for Windows 8 or 8.1. (not surprised though, that's typical sony..)
anyway, that didn't stop me of course. I installed 8, 8.1, 10 on my laptop as those OSes came out. the drivers weren't a problem, Windows update automatically took care of everything. now the same laptop (with i5 CPU, 4GB RAM DDR3, 320GB HDD and Radeon GPU), is running latest Windows 10 version 1903 flawlessly. all of the components are working fine, the bluetooth, WIFI, card reader etc.
but remember if you decide to upgrade, do a clean install. so download or create an ISO file and put it into a USB disk, boot from it and install your OS. doing this will require you to format your C:/ drive in order to install a fresh Windows 10, so make sure you backup all your important files in that drive before start.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
