{"id":392,"date":"2015-08-15T21:39:28","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T20:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flat-planet.net\/?p=392"},"modified":"2015-08-15T21:39:28","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T20:39:28","slug":"jumping-from-windows-7-to-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/?p=392","title":{"rendered":"Jumping from Windows 7 to Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

In summary – surprisingly painless<\/h1>\n

I’ve been running Windows 7 since it went RTM and was very happy with it. It was reliable, everything just worked, and it wasn’t too much of a resource hog. I completely bypassed Windows 8\/8.1 as this is a desktop\/gaming PC so a touch interface is of 0 interest to me.<\/p>\n

The Upgrade<\/h1>\n

I prefer to do a clean install of a new OS, and that was my plan in this case. Unfortunately, Microsoft in their infinite wisdom decided that there would be no way to convert your Win7 key to a Windows 10 one directly even though I’m entitled to the “free” upgrade. Given that I’d bought a shiny new SSD to install everything on, this was a little inconvenient.<\/p>\n

To be fair to Microsoft, the upgrade was a little slow but no issues encountered. Everything just worked post upgrade. Though since this system had been running for a few years there was a bit of cruft to deal with. At this point I extracted the windows 10 product key, and rolled the change back to Windows 7.<\/p>\n

Upgrade customers are entitled to rollback to Windows 7 for a month, so use it if you need it \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

The Clean Install<\/h1>\n

In possession of a valid product key, I then installed the new SSD and installed Windows 10 (64-bit International). Again, very smooth process – definitely the easiest Windows install I’ve ever had to do. No device drivers of any kind required, everything was just automagically identified, and drivers installed while I was still in the process of turning off all the creepy bits.<\/p>\n

Minor Issues (and they are very minor)<\/h1>\n