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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Alberto,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>I also decided to check out Windoz 10 and had the same experience as you had. It took about 3 hours to get the whole process done with several reboots that made me wonder if the computer had given up on the whole affair. All programs on the computer work and things do appear to be running faster than before.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>The computer that I installed Win 10 on is a Dell D630 that was running Win 7. This machine was designed for Win XP and is dual core. Processor is running at 1.9 GHZ and it has 4 GB of memory.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>I am writing this on a machine running Win 8.1 that will be upgraded to Win 10 later today.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Bill<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>N4TS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></a></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'> Tacos [mailto:tacos-bounces+wfenn4=verizon.net@amrad.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Alberto di Bene<br><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: Three reasons to hold off on Windows 10<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>On 7/28/2015 7:34 PM, Richard O'Neill wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>Well ...., maybe - but it appears bugs <i>are</i> beginning to peek out of the woodwork. Ya got to know when to hold, when to fold, when to run away. <br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj4nJ1YEAp4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj4nJ1YEAp4</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>Given that I am a sort of a gambler, this morning I installed Windows 10 on the laptop that previously had Win 8.1<br>It took about three hours, first downloading, then churning the disk. And, after many automatic reboots, Windows 10<br>was there, up and running.<br><br>The first thing I did was that of checking if all my ham programs (Winrad, FunSDR, Argo, Spectran, Jason, TCube, etc.)<br>did still run.. they did, no glitches nor hassles...<br><br>Then I checked both HDSDR and Perseus. Same... everything worked as expected.<br>Also Matlab, RAD Studio, Adobe Acrobat, AOMEI Backupper and many other utilities had no problems in running <br>under Windows 10.<br><br>And the general impression is that the new opsys is snappier than the previous Win 8.1<br><br>Bar unforeseen problems, Windows 10 is on my laptop to stay...<br><br>73 Alberto I2PHD<br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>