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| From | Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.os.windows-10 |
| Subject | Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations |
| Date | 2025-02-07 10:57 -0500 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <vo5af1$3ih3g$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <vo2i13$307r8$1@dont-email.me> <vo3nfb$36plg$1@dont-email.me> <vo3oap$371cs$1@dont-email.me> |
On 2/6/2025 8:40 PM, John C. wrote:
>
> Eg. Tried to install Nero 7 Essentials. No problem in W7, but in W10 the
> installation fails with several javascript errors. And this is
> attempting to set it up from an OEM DVD.
>
I've been using ImgBurn without incident for years, on XP, 7 and 10.
I just did a data backup to DVD yesterday.
>> I am now giving serious consideration to simply wiping the drive, and
>> then installing Windows 7 on it. Then I will install all my drivers and
>> programs, do all the tweaking and adjusting and I will know that it will
>> all work.
>>
>> Then I will downgrade Windows 7 to Windows 10.
>>
Note that 7 -> 10 is no longer free. I've found that using 20H2
ISO on a Dell with Win7 worked fine, but not 22H2. I've yet to
try going from 20H2 to 22H2, to see whether it still activates OK.
If you go direct from Win7 to 22H2 you'll need to buy a license.
Did you already buy a license? In that case there's no issue.
But starting all over sounds rather extreme just because a
program doesn't work. If you think the Win10 install is funky
you could refresh it by mounting the ISO, running setup.exe,
and reinstalling while keeping files.
I haven't personally found much incompatibility. All of the software
I used on XP works on 10. Visual Studio 6 sometimes shows a COM
error message when the program opens, but there's no other problem.
Paint Shop Pro 5 (circa 1999 :) works fine. The scanner import
is sometimes slightly glitchy, but not a big deal. PDF XChange Viewer
Free had to be updated to v. 2.5 build 322.10. And all the software
I've written myself works without a catch, with the exception of
32-bit shell extensions. They can't run under 64-bit Explorer.
So a few minor issues,
but impressive considering that my software collection spans 25 years.
If this were Mac I'd need to replace anything more than 2 years old. If it
were Linux then all the software I used previously would likely be long
dead.
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Fresh reinstall and file associations "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2025-02-06 06:46 -0800
Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-02-06 09:26 -0600
Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-02-06 12:00 -0500
Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-02-06 17:59 +0000
Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations "Alan K." <alan@invalid.com> - 2025-02-06 13:47 -0500
Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-02-06 14:16 -0700
Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2025-02-06 17:26 -0800
Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2025-02-06 17:40 -0800
Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-02-06 21:11 -0600
Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-02-07 12:59 +0000
Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations "Allan Higdon" <allanh@vivaldi.net> - 2025-02-07 07:24 -0600
Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-02-07 10:57 -0500
Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-02-07 16:40 +0000
Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2025-02-07 15:24 -0800
Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-02-06 21:12 -0600
Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2025-02-07 04:17 -0800
Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-02-07 08:18 -0600
Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2025-02-07 15:31 -0800
Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-02-07 19:10 -0600
Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-02-07 09:37 -0700
Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2025-03-02 05:42 -0800
Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-03-02 14:50 -0600
Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2025-03-03 06:19 -0800
Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-03-03 14:26 -0600
Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2025-03-04 04:04 -0800
Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-03-04 11:53 -0600
Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-02-07 16:48 +0000
Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations Mr Xi Ji Ping <ping@china.cn> - 2025-02-07 03:00 +0000
Re: Fresh reinstall and file associations "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2025-02-07 04:19 -0800
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