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[Lonnie]

^^^^Liz, thanks for your prompt reply.
I did the SAME thing of paying extra for Windows 7 on a then new computer (2012?) when Windows 8 was having some "development" problems and the place I bought it from said I would be MUCH happier with it, plus being somewhat familiar with its graphic user-interface (GUI).
One of the newest developments in hardware is Solid State Hard Drives (SS-HD), rather than the older Mechanical Hard Drives for data storage. I was told (because I do not have one) they are SOOOO much faster on start-up than the old MHDs, but the trade-off is MUCH smaller byte storage capacity. I asked why and the computer salesperson said because everyone is using Cloud Storage these days. I HATE the idea of having my personal data that I want to keep archived and retrieved at will stored off-site on someone else`s God-knows-where server. It is the day and age we live in. As they say ,"Get with the times."

 

[bad penny]

Well, that explains that error messages I`ve been getting recently. I thought it may have been something with Windows 7 operating system that I am still on
When I saw this thread, I did not consider it important or relevant, but now it is!

Thanks for alerting the Admins to this "problem" and Liz, thanks for your due diligence in keeping this forum operational and functioning for all of us Autopians, members and (some, but not all!) "guests".

OK, so I will hi-jack this thread (Again, Captain Obvious? What else is new!) on a related note: Has anyone upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10 on their personal computer and if so, what was involved? It would seem that "older" computers may not be able to run Windows 10 due to its more elaborate programming that requires more RAM of memory and higher computational processor speeds, SO not only did Microsoft obsolete (more correctly not technically support) an old, but reliable, Windows computer operating system, they also obsoleted older computers. (You are a hypocrite, Captain Obvious. Were you not the one whose father said, "If you want to run with the big dogs, you gotta pay like the big dogs! Just sayin`...)

fyi. If you see a thread made by me, the wise move will always be to read it.