Win 10 to old computer

[sapphirescales]

Generally my recommendation is as follows:

Vista or older: Buy one of my refurbs
Windows 7: Stay on 7
Windows 8/8.1: Upgrade to 10
Windows 10: Stay on 10

If they want to upgrade an old 7 machine to 10, that's fine. But I make them sign a waiver that I do NOT recommend it and they're taking their own risks by doing it. Windows 7 is very different from 8/10, just like Windows Vista/7 is much different than Windows XP/2000. CAN you run the newer OS on the older hardware? Sure. Will it be a great experience? Probably not. I remember going over the same crap back when XP recently came out. EVERYONE wanted it, even on their old 95/98 boxes. Back then, I only recommended XP if your system came with 2000 or ME. Anything older than that and problems start to creep up.

 

[fencepost]

I do not install anything higher than Vista on single-core systems.

Huh, I have to admit I was basing my earlier post on believing that Vista was actually out of support EOL'd just like XP, but it has until this coming April. Even so, I'd put it squarely in my area of "I understand that this is what you say you want. I feel strongly enough that it's a mistake that I will not do this for you, and I think that anyone who will is basically cheating you." If it was someone who quite simply could not afford to do anything else I'd still see what I could do to get them onto something different even if it meant migrating their data free, because I think the cheapest options price-wise wouldn't be that much more expensive than what would be needed on a system that old. I might not profit in dollars, but I'd happily add it to the tally of "making the world a better place."

On the other hand that's for something I'd consider a charity case - if it's just that the potential customer is incredibly cheap, "Sorry, can't help you."

 

[Porthos]

I'd put it squarely in my area of "I understand that this is what you say you want. I feel strongly enough that it's a mistake that I will not do this for you, and I think that anyone who will is basically cheating you." If it was someone who quite simply could not afford to do anything else I'd still see what I could do to get them onto something different even if it meant migrating their data free, because I think the cheapest options price-wise wouldn't be that much more expensive than what would be needed on a system that old. I might not profit in dollars, but I'd happily add it to the tally of "making the world a better place."

Done that more than once.

if it's just that the potential customer is incredibly cheap, "Sorry, can't help you."

Also have done this.

 

[mar6]

Thanks again for replies !
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