[Elecraft] OT Looking for PC advice.

[Wes]

Personally, I'm sticking with Win 7 for as long as I can.

I have a few computers:

1) Aged Toshiba laptop with Win XP that has a parallel port for running my N2PK 
network analyze.  No wi-fi in this one anymore.

2) Lenovo T400 upgraded to SSD running Win 7 Home 32 bit that is the shack 
computer for logging, RTTY, SDR-IQ bandscope, etc.

3) HP Elitebook upgraded to SSD with Win 7 Pro on the workbench/field to run 
DG8SAQ network analyzer.  I tried the "free" Win 10 on this one.  It worked okay 
but issues which follow caused me to roll it back.

4) Dell desktop, also upgraded to SSD, Win 7 Home. Lots of backup storage for 
photos, banking, doss, etc.

5) Fiance's HP laptop still running Vista.

6) New HP laptop delivered with Win 10 that is supposed to replace #5.

All of these (except for #1) are networked via local Wi-Fi.  When she fires up 
with the new Win 10 machine, it totally takes over my network.  This thing is so 
intrusive as to be unbelievable.  It's pathetic when you have to install 
programs to find all of the Windows "phone home"  hooks and disable them. I'm 
sure there are many that are still running.  I can only assume that Microsoft 
has scoured my complete network and saved everything away so NSA can find it all 
in one place.



  On 5/23/2016 12:12 AM, F5vjc wrote:
> Hi, I have an Elecraft K line station and up to now have been running all
> my software on an aging Win 7 32 bit machine. No real problems but I'm in
> the process of building an updated PC and have a dilemma.  Do I go with Win
> 7 Pro 64 Bit or Win 10  for the OS?
>
> I know some of you will have taken this path already, so how do you find
> WIN 10 with typical Ham radio software? I run Win4K3, N1MM, HRD,  Log4OM,
> CW Skimmer,  NaP3 and numerous other Ham radio stuff.
>
> I have Win 10 on my laptop (free update from Win 7) but not used for the
> Ham shack and find it rather irritating,  but this is probably due to
> unfamiliarity.
>
> Do you guys prefer Win 7 or 10 for Ham radio apps.
>
>
> Any advice appreciated, thanks.
>
> 73,  Deni - F5VJC
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