On 27/11/2019 14:22, Chris Hogg wrote:
On Mon, 25 Nov 2019 14:23:59 +0000, Mike Halmarack
wrote:

On Fri, 22 Nov 2019 16:51:26 +0000, John Rumm
wrote:

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Yup Win 7 still gets updates (until 14th Jan next year). He probably has
a broken windows update mechanism (or one that was knobbled by malware).

(the troubleshooter can often fix windows update issues).

Failing that, download the Win 10 media creation tool and let it
"update" the current machine - it will give you an upgrade install of
win 10 without losing programs and data.

You are a true Champion John.
It never occurred to me that this method of upgrade was available or
even possible.
I've just used your suggestion to upgrade my computer with ten years
worth of Windows 7 pro apps and docs on it.
The end result is that you wouldn't know there has been any change at
all unless you looked at "This PC Properties..."
I was dreading what turned out to be a beautifully simple and trouble
free solution. Thanks a bunch!

+100

I've just upgraded my reserve PC (W7 Home Premium 32 bit) using the
media creation tool, after first having made a disk image on an
external HDD in a caddy using Acronis, in case it all went tits up.
But apart from taking nearly four hours to complete (!), it all went
smoothly.

nice one...

I've still got some tweaking to do on the reserve PC, but when I've
sorted that out, I'll have a go at updating this one (W7 professional,
64 bit). I'm using the reserve PC to feel my way. Two things I've
noticed so far - upgrading to W10 managed to lose all the usenet
messages in my various folders in Agent. It's not a big problem, as I
can probably copy them all over from this PC, but it would have been
nice if they hadn't disappeared.

What folder does Agent use to store messages?


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Cheers,

John.

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