Greetings John,
Although I use Windows 7 for SONAR, you mean that WINDOWS 10 should be the new
starting point for it?
Thank you.
Adel
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Objet : [ddots-l] Re: question
Jack,
I would be careful about this, but not too careful.
Early on, when Windows 10 was FREE and Microsoft wanted everyone to move to the
new platform, they offered this free upgrade continually and at every possible
junction. Instead of updating your Windows 7, it would *convert* you and
*upgrade* you to Windows10. Obviously, you must not let this happen.
However, it has been a couple/three years since the huge Windows 10 forced
migration. I believe it is over, and they have clearly decided that 10 is the
new starting point... Not only that they have deprecated Windows 7 to being
absolutely unsupported anymore, but I do not think they force an upgrade to
Windows 10 anymore either.
If your notice says upgrades are available and does not mention Windows 10 in
any way... perhaps, it may be telling you that you can get the last available
Windows 7 upgrades. If this is so, that would be a good idea. If it is not so,
it would probably be a bad idea to try it. Since I don't think they will try
to update you to Windows 10 anymore, it may be worthwhile to try. However, it
MUST only be done if you're sure you can do it safely and recover if it doesn't
work, or works badly and leaves your machine not working properly.
I will check my version level of Windows 7, which I think is the last one
released. If you are not at that level, there may be some safe way to get to it
with that upgrade notice you are seeing, and then again, who knows, there may
not be a way. Sounds pretty up in the air, doesn't it? Sorry, but I haven't
checked with Microsoft lately. All I know is my machine does not bother me
about updates or upgrades anymore and has been at a nice, stable static version
7 for quite some time now, and I don't see any messages like you mention. I'll
check my machin's versio, and the MS site and get back to you on this in a few
days.
In the meantime, just keep ignoring the message. 😊
If you don't have the ability to backup the entire C: drive, and that means
with a completely functioning recovery method available, I would go to the
trouble and expense of obtaining such software. This way, if your machine ever
does get corrupted or improperly updated, or whatever, you can recover back to
a stable point. In the future, this is going to become increasingly more and
more difficult to do. There are probably dozens of Backup/Restore/Recovery
programs out there. I use Acronis. They claim to have a functioning
"bare-metal-restore" although I have never relied on it, or even tested it.
This means, if your hard drive completely fails as to be unusable, and you need
to get back to a working machine, their system will allow you to buy a new hard
drive and do that. On Unix/Linux, this would be a dead simple process. Using
Windows, it is not as easy as people might think.
/john
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From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of
Jack Conti
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2020 8:40 AM
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] question
Running win7 sonar 8.5 ct, with no connected internet cable.
its a dual boot system and on the win10 isde on the taskbar it reads no
available connection.
On the windows7 side after running for 4 or 5 mintues, the available
updates message pops up and just sits there...
I can live with it, but i find it odd...
Has anyone seen this??? thx in advance... Jack.
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