[Elecraft] OT Looking for PC advice.

[Phil Kane]

On 5/23/2016 12:12 AM, F5vjc wrote:

> Do you guys prefer Win 7 or 10 for Ham radio apps.

I have a 6-year old Dell tower for my business and personal use and a
3-year old Dell laptop for my ham radio use.  Both of them run Win 7 Pro
64 bit.

I tried "upgrading" the laptop to Win 10.  Too much effort on defusing
all of the nasty Microsoft "call home" stuff and auto-updating (I prefer
to see and review each and every "patch" before letting it run).  Even
with ClassicShell (which I use on all of my computers) I could not get
Win 10 to look and behave the way I wanted.  I had to re-install Win 7
on the laptop because it was beyond the 30-day "easy rollback" period
and fortunately I had the "reinstall media" from Dell.

Bottom line - I am sticking to Win 7 as long as I have those computers
and when either needs replacing I will order new ones with Win 7
installed (not-so-secret that one can still do it if one is a good
customer of the supplier).


73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
Elecraft K2/100   s/n 5402

>From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest
Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon