The Windows 10 Deadline is almost here....

Theraphosa

Senior Member
I've yet to decide, but I'm leaning towards keeping my Windows 7 setup, with LR5.7.1, at least for now. It all works together and it does what I need it to do....
But in the future, if I upgrade to LRCC ...?

My wife has Win10 on her laptop, and little things about it bug me, even though I'm sure it's functional, is it better than Win7 for photo editing?
I've only limited time with it, but I can't even figure out how to download photos from the camera, if I can't right click on the camera for the download window...

Has anyone upgraded to Win10?

How does it work with the camera interface, and PS and/or LR?

Thanks for any feed back or resources.

(and my apologies if a similar thread to this is already out there. I searched but couldn't find anything...)
 

GeoWes

Senior Member
I can't upgrade. All my office equipment and software will not work on W10 and to upgrade would cost me about 15k. I shut Windows upgrade completely off and put my trust in Norton.
 

Danno

Senior Member
I bought a new laptop a few months ago with windows 10 i5 processor and 16 gig of ram and 4 gig of video ram and 1TB hard drive. It came with Windows 10. Personally I really like it. It has somethings that are odd, but you do not have to use them all. I run it much like I did windows 7. Yes it is different, but enough similarities that in spite of my limitations I was able to figure it out.

LR and PS CC work very well, and they run fast on this relatively inexpensive laptop. My old laptop was on its last legs and I tried the upgrade on it to see if I could gain any improvement. That did not go well... It did not break it. It just did not improve anything and some of the features did not work. I attribute that to the fact that not everything was compatible. The new PC worked much better.
 

§am

Senior Member
Been putting off an upgrade for ages but time now dictates I must do it soon!

Too many PCs and laptops at home to do them all though.
Probably clone my OS drives, upgrade (fresh install) and see how it goes. If I don't like it, I can reapply my cloned copy of Win7
 

JH Foto

Senior Member
I have windows 8.1 with which I am happy, I have heard so many horror stories about Windows 10 I would like to stay as I am.
 
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I upgraded all the computers in the house (4 total) and love it. My desktop which gets all the photo duties I formatted the hard drive and did a fresh install of Win10 and then decided to go with a SSD drive so installed that and moved Win 10 and all the programs to the SSD with the old internal drive serving to hold all the user documents. All the photos were already on externals. Lightroom lives on the SSD along with the LR catalog and scratch disk. It sings now. I am a firm believer in Win10. It is faster and a much more lean OS than any of the previous incarnations. All software companies are going to be writing for Win10 and it is my belief that before long they will drop compatibility for the older OS versions.
 

LouCioccio

Senior Member
I have upgraded my Virtual Windows on my Mac's that have either Window's 7 or 8.x to Windows 10. I have been beta testing Window's 10 since last year and had I know I would have bugged others as that beta is activated as with the others that I have. I help out our church and our club has donated a computer to their office which originally was an iMac and now replaced with a Mac Mini 8GB RAM and a SSD 500GB. I had cloned of their VM window's 8.x that had their applications so when I upgraded the other others I had to make sure all apps worked. It did then I upgraded the VM Clone of their Office Computer to see it the network church data base worked on my network. It did. I then did theirs but did have a few hit cups with the network shares till I toggled to remember credentials (similar to MacOS X and its shares) so no one has to enter passwords it automatically. The other hit cup was the scanner copier to scan a document and place it on the new Windows I just had to re link it. Whew!
Windows 10 is similar to Windows XP,Vista, and 7 you actually have your Start menu back without any third party apps like Classic Shell or Start Dock.
Just make sure you have enough space on your hard drive, you can update Windows 10, then go back to 7 or 8 with in a thirty day period. See this link: Get Windows 10 for Free After July 29th, with a Little Prep Now
So you can go back and still be eligible.
Now you have to make sure all apps program will work or are upgradeable.
Biggest headache I had was installing Office 12 on two new Windows 8.x Dell's at the church it said it was incompatible. I looked at Setup.exe on the Disk and it had compatibility mode but I could not toggle it since it was a DISC! So I copied the disc to a folder on my external hard drive and gave it the same name as the commercial disc. I reselected setup.exe right click and changed compatibility mode and voila Windows 8 would accept it. I am so glad that I bought a Magnavox Oddessy and later got a Tandy Color Computer II and had it running Microware OS/9 I would never had figured out how computers worked.

Lou Cioccio
 

paul04

Senior Member
I've been using windows 10 for a while now and very happy with it, both lightroom and Photoshop work fine,
Using a SSD to store windows 10 and all the main programs, and the old drive to save all the backup files.
Which makes it a fast and efficient PC.
 

rocketman122

Senior Member
never tried w10 dont care for w10 and I would have stayed with win xp if I could but more ram and ssd support "forced" me to go w7 and hell no will I be moving ANYTIME soon. at LEAST 5 years if I can help it.
 

jay_dean

Senior Member
I use Win10 with LR 5.7 and theres no difference to when i ran Win7 with it. As an operating system, Win7 is more user friendly imo
 

Bikerbrent

Senior Member
With all the loss of user control of updates and the Microsoft "spyware" in Windows 10, I believe I will skip the upgrade and continue with Windows 7. When Windows 7 is no longer supported, will probably upgrade to Unix.
 

Ruidoso Bill

Senior Member
I have been using on my desktop (i7, 32bg ram, 3 gb video ram) and laptop (i5 dell) windows 10 since released. Absolutely no problems, I actually don't spend a lot of time worrying about the OS. It works fast, doesn't seem to crash as much as previous windows versions, does what it supposed to do. Unix is a nogo, have you worked with Gimp?, not much else for editing. If I every leave windows it will be for a Mac. I have one computer with Ubuntu and just not enough software support for real world needs. I don't feel my privacy has been compromised with windows 10, however I have far less to protect than Hilary had to protect.

BTW, did the wife's laptop last night after seeing the notification, no issues, works perfect and it is an Asus i5.

After dos, I started with windows 3.1, win 95, win 98, win 2000, win 7, win 8, win 8.1 & windows 10. I hate windows update, always wants something at the wrong time but truly feel the windows product has greatly improved, heck I have friends running windows on their mac's, now that's a strange combo!
 
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Nero

Senior Member
Sticking with 7 for now, but I plan on upgrading this old laptop around Boxing Day so Windows 10 will soon become a reality for me.
 

weebee

Senior Member
All but one of our computers are running Win10. My old, old laptop, running Vista, can't get the free download. Zero problems with the platform. Though, I had to get rid of a few free programs that wouldn't play nice with it.
 
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Bikerbrent

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Frankly, my biggest concern is my Photoshop CS6. If I upgrade to Windows 10 and the upgrade fails, will I loose my CS6? I frankly don't see that Adobe will reactivate my CS6 if I need to reinstall, they will expect me to rent their Photoshop CC version which I will NOT do and at 70 I am too old to want to learn GIMP.
 

Bikerbrent

Senior Member
My cs6 worked fine. No issues.

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But what would have happened if the Windows 10 upgrade had failed? That is my concern since many users report issues about running just an upgrade vs. a clean install. If one does a clean install, an CS6 be reinstalled?
 
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