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XP was the only thing I knew for 10 years...
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XP was the only system (other than Mac or Unix) that allowed me to drag my home folder out of C:\Documents and Settings\ to a different partition. When I do a backup I only want my documents, not the whole sh'bang of system software and applications. Saves time... Win10 does allow me to default to a different drive or partition, so at least that's a welcome change. I never use a single drive with Windows (actually, any computer regardless of OS- I'm also a Linux/Mac user), always put the virtual memory file on a drive other than the boot drive- kills the excessive drive chatter and speeds it up a bit.

So... Why are "A" and "B" drives still reserved for floppies in the BIOS when no one has even seen a floppy for 30 years?
 
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Win 7 is rock solid and you should find it pretty snappy and easy to work with
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Still collecting files and folders on the XP machine....up to 160,000 files and 66gb on an incremental backup.
The Win 7 machine is still checking for updates.
 
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You can try restarting the rig. Sometimes the checking process seems to get bunged up, especially if you have a lot of updates to do. Downloading them may take some time too, depending on your down speed. If the older service packs havent been installed, the first one will take a good chunk of time, then there will be a bunch more after that first one.

Transitioning from XP to 7 should be fairly easy, 7 is a great op sys imo.
 
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You were right Ben, the Win 7 machine was stalled out. Done checking and downloading 126 updates.

The XP machine is done collecting files and folders. 184000 of them. At its present rate of backup it will take 50 hours...
 
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Updates stack up and then get rolled into 'Cumulative Updates' from Micro(aggressive)soft. Give it a night ... at least. Some of the update packages can be biggens', even for Win 7.
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A. there is a solution for that (at least temporary)...see answers.microsoft.com

B. They've been patching the same four damned things since early this year, so I just quit bugging with those and hid them.

C. All the nervous types swear Microsoft is now slowly updating 7 into senility go get you to BUY 10.

D. Indian code writers or Somalis driving cabs...which is worse?
 
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You were right Ben, the Win 7 machine was stalled out. Done checking and downloading 126 updates.

The XP machine is done collecting files and folders. 184000 of them. At its present rate of backup it will take 50 hours...
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I back up to a WD passport 160 GB external or my thumb drives, although your stuff may be a big bigger...still that estimated time will go a lot faster than it seems if you mostly have smaller files and a fast transfer rate.
 
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You were right Ben, the Win 7 machine was stalled out. Done checking and downloading 126 updates.

The XP machine is done collecting files and folders. 184000 of them. At its present rate of backup it will take 50 hours...
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Letting it sit for a couple years is sorta like not playing a tube radio for a long time...they don't like it and sometimes they need fixing (the tube sets),
 
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It is true MS has pulled resources away from Win 7 updating to get the late adopters to switch to Win 10. I gave up on all win 7 and win 8 machines and only run win 10 machines myself.
 
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Not necessarily (it's a sideline for the kids bored of politics and sick of trusting Microsoft). They HAVE been repatching the same 4 or 5 patches since almost the beginning of the year it seems.

I got a snicker from one of the computer repair guys on Microsoft Answers (not an MS employee or moderator) when I said next time don't outsource it to India and let Americans mess it up correctly...:laughing8:

I hid them all, just let the Malicious Software scan go through...if it's really deadly I'll figure it out and if I could afford the paid, real-time version of Malwarebytes I wouldn't really care. The 2 week trial kicks ass and it reverts to the free version at the end unless you buy.
 
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[TABLE="class: table ng-scope"]
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[TH] Client operating systems
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[TH] Latest update or service pack[/TH]
[TH] End of mainstream support[/TH]
[TH] End of extended support[/TH]
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[TD] Windows XP[/TD]
[TD] Service Pack 3[/TD]
[TD] April 14, 2009 [/TD]
[TD] April 8, 2014 [/TD]
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[TD] Windows Vista[/TD]
[TD] Service Pack 2 [/TD]
[TD] April 10, 2012 [/TD]
[TD] April 11, 2017 [/TD]
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[TD] Windows 7* [/TD]
[TD] Service Pack 1 [/TD]
[TD] January 13, 2015 [/TD]
[TD] January 14, 2020 [/TD]
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[TR]
[TD] Windows 8[/TD]
[TD] Windows 8.1[/TD]
[TD] January 9, 2018 [/TD]
[TD] January 10, 2023 [/TD]
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[TR]
[TD] Windows 10, released in July 2015**
[/TD]
[TD] N/A [/TD]
[TD] October 13, 2020 [/TD]
[TD] October 14, 2025
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Much of corporate America and small businesses are still on Win 7. The most critical items of support and security improvements are still intact.
 
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Yep lots of computers still on win 7. Most coporate suers can push updates to their boxes instead of getting in the update que. But that won't stop MS from trying to push w10 onto any other version users.
 
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Yep lots of computers still on win 7. Most coporate suers can push updates to their boxes instead of getting in the update que. But that won't stop MS from trying to push w10 onto any other version users.
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The generalized Win 10 free update period is closed.
It's the consumer base that had and has the highest acceptance threshold for Win 10.
 
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