Bob Eager wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 15:42:36 +0100, Fredxx wrote:

On 24/06/2020 15:10:19, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
My banking app is nagging me to do this, so suppose I must.

I'll do my Win7 Pro laptop first.

Have Googled it, but as usual as many questions as answers.

Ideally, the update would retain all my files data and apps. Obviously
some apps may need updating too - but assume they'd tell me if this is
so,
if it doesn't happen by magic?

Ebay has plenty CDs etc for sale for a modest sum that promise to do
just this.
Why not use the Microsoft ISO/USB tool:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/soft...load/windows10

I use the USB stick route. It's simple to use. Although if you go down
the DVD route you'll need media burning software.

To my knowledge all Windows 7 apps will all work on Windows 10. I
haven't found one that hasn't (64bit).

I had a Samsung scanner that wouldn't. At all. I gave it away to someone
with Win 7.

There's Vuescan.

https://www.hamrick.com/

That's not necessarily a cost-effective solution.

Only a certain class of scanners (really valuable ones),
would justify using that. Like maybe one of the good
slide scanners with 9600dpi resolution or so.

*******

You can use a virtual machine to run a scanner, but
one of the decent images (provided by Microsoft) is
no longer available for download. There was a
Windows 7 Enterprise VM that doesn't need activation
(but, it only runs for half an hour at a time...).

Paul