This was back about 2 weeks before I took a break from EvC.
I was pretty well prepared to try and upgrade from Win 7 to Win 10. I cloned my Win 7 system drive to a new 1Tb SSD and downloaded Win 10 and tried the option of keeping my software and just upgrading the operating system on a 2nd 1Tb SSD.
Everything seemed to go ok. I needed to install upgraded drivers for monitors, graphics cards, Wacom Tablet, and other peripherals. I also needed to do some upgrading of my imaging software. It seemed to be working fine, but the next day when I booted up it couldn't find my hardware and when I tried to look at the drivers I got the never ending spinning circle next to the cursor. Repeated reboots and profanity didn't make it better.
So, I went back to the cloned Win 7 SSD and WOW was it fast. I had 2 huge imaging projects that could not be postponed, so I continued working, using Win 7.
After several months, I received notice from Adobe that they were going to curtail upgrades to their subscription service to run on Windows 7. So I have no choice but to get a functioning version of Win 10 installed.
A clean full install this time. A new 2Tb SSD and a new Win 10 download and I am in business. So I install my software, expecting to get some sort of message from Microsoft about activating Win 10. After a couple days I figure I will force the issue and activate it. It turns out to already be activated in my name using my product key from Win 7.
It is running well months later and is extremely fast compared to even Win 7 on the SSD. I also replaced 3 3Tb internal drives with 3 8Tb drives.
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