With Microsoft giving away free Windows 10 upgrades to Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users, the one question that I keep getting asked is 'Should I upgrade to Windows 10?' The real question should be 'Will my hardware run smoothly with Windows 10?'
Let's take a look and see if you should upgrade from Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 to Windows 10.If you have the GWT ( Get Windows 10) icon on the taskbar, you can find out if your hardware and software will run on Windows 10. Just remember that even if GWT says all everything is compliant with Windows 10, it doesn't mean it will work smoothly with Windows 10. I have seen systems that were completely compatible with Windows 10, but when they got the upgraded, the performance was below what it was with the previous version of Windows.First thing we should look at are the hardware requirements for Windows 10. When compared to Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, they are essentially exactly same for all three versions.
Excellent -down-to-earth- article! I wish I had read it BEFORE I upgraded to Win 10.
I have an old HP Pavilion dv-6000 (2008) that came with Vista, and had practically no problems with it in Win7, but the moment I moved to Win 10, I lost audio, internet, and several other things. I spent hours trying to fix those things and gave up after three solid days of trying. Went back to 7 and I don't miss 10.Call me a romantic, but I liked XP a lot better than the rest. I have Win 10 in my newest laptop, but always come back to the faithful XP.
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