I wonder if anyone can offer me different advice as I am currently using Windows 7 - I think this is Professional but after the latest windows update it has given me a date to upgrade me to Windows 10. I have been told I can't avoid this, bar taking myself off line I suppose. Does anyone know any different? Best wishes Angie Watts Dodkin(s) One Name Study -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Clinton Slayton via Sent: 16 April 2016 14:26 To: 'Marie Byatt'; [email protected] Subject: Re: [G] Have you had Issues with Your Software Windows 10 is extremely odd in its update behavior, because it exhibits different behavior when it "warm reboots" itself to when you "cold boot" it with the power button. It is especially prone to give "low on memory" messages on my laptop with 8G of RAM in a 64-bit setting, which should never happen at my level of usage (I was a PC Support Tech for 24 years before retiring so now I am the "home" tech since I can't quite retire from that). Keep an close eye on Windows 10, and make sure that you occasionally SHUTDOWN. I tend to leave my PCs on continually, and have learned this from bitter experiences with Win 10, which is why I have it on an networked laptop mainly used for watching media, and retain Win 7 Pro on my "main" desktops where I keep my genea software, where I store my files for remote access from the Win 10 laptop, and which are backed up. Win 10 is being beta tested by you and me, it was never a "finished" product for public consumption, in my opinion, because the "free" version was essentially spyware with an OS attached. Clinton -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marie Byatt via Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2016 8:31 AM To: John P Laws; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [G] Have you had Issues with Your Software I installed Win 10 last summer and RM 7 in the fall and was having error problem after the first month or so. However, I didn't get to really checking it out. Sometime around the end of Feb/beginning of March, Windows did a massive update on my computer, since then I've had very few error messages from RM - I have a feeling that the problem was with the version of Win 10 I was using. Marie (GOONS 5318) Bringing the world together one surname at a time. 'A Pepler Name' http://pepler.tribalpages.com 'Hedgerow - the Ancestors' http://cranberry.tribalpages.com Pepler DNA Study http://www.familytreedna.com/public/pepler-ow/ 'Scroops, Scropes and Scroopes' http://dentonlk.tribalpages.com 'Peplers and Peplows' pepler.one-name.net ________________________________ From: John P Laws via <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2016 6:31 AM Subject: [G] Have you had Issues with Your Software Hi One-Namers Everywhere Have you had issues with your software, I have, I used RootsMagic up to V7 then I started getting issues, freezing and continually sending messages about errors back to the vendor. On talking to S & N and by experimentation I find that if one edits a record in V7 then loads V6 the edit shows up. Now here's my question If I use V6 and upgrade step by step to V7 rather than the V7 that I downloaded will I avoid the problems I've been having with V7? I tried using Legacy 7 but found it a very steep learning curve. I having been trying out Family Historian impressed but find very user unfriendly. So am tempted to return to RootsMagic - At least I can talk with Bruce Buzbee and S & N. I'd welcome your views. Of course it could be my SAMSUNG I've other problems, mostly since I upgraded from WIN7 to WIN10 but will post them in a separate mail John P Laws Registrar Laws Family Register Putting Flesh on the Bones of History www.lawsandlawes.blogspot.co.uk _____________________________________________ RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _____________________________________________ RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus _____________________________________________ RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

As far as I'm aware, Microsoft does not enforce an upgrade from Windows 7 to 8 or 10 - firstly you haven't paid them for the license - or have you? Secondly - you can always say NO. Chris -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Angie Watts via Sent: 16 April 2016 14:37 To: 'Clinton Slayton'; [email protected] Subject: Re: [G] Have you had Issues with Your Software I wonder if anyone can offer me different advice as I am currently using Windows 7 - I think this is Professional but after the latest windows update it has given me a date to upgrade me to Windows 10. I have been told I can't avoid this, bar taking myself off line I suppose. Does anyone know any different? Best wishes Angie Watts Dodkin(s) One Name Study -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Clinton Slayton via Sent: 16 April 2016 14:26 To: 'Marie Byatt'; [email protected] Subject: Re: [G] Have you had Issues with Your Software Windows 10 is extremely odd in its update behavior, because it exhibits different behavior when it "warm reboots" itself to when you "cold boot" it with the power button. It is especially prone to give "low on memory" messages on my laptop with 8G of RAM in a 64-bit setting, which should never happen at my level of usage (I was a PC Support Tech for 24 years before retiring so now I am the "home" tech since I can't quite retire from that). Keep an close eye on Windows 10, and make sure that you occasionally SHUTDOWN. I tend to leave my PCs on continually, and have learned this from bitter experiences with Win 10, which is why I have it on an networked laptop mainly used for watching media, and retain Win 7 Pro on my "main" desktops where I keep my genea software, where I store my files for remote access from the Win 10 laptop, and which are backed up. Win 10 is being beta tested by you and me, it was never a "finished" product for public consumption, in my opinion, because the "free" version was essentially spyware with an OS attached. Clinton -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marie Byatt via Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2016 8:31 AM To: John P Laws; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [G] Have you had Issues with Your Software I installed Win 10 last summer and RM 7 in the fall and was having error problem after the first month or so. However, I didn't get to really checking it out. Sometime around the end of Feb/beginning of March, Windows did a massive update on my computer, since then I've had very few error messages from RM - I have a feeling that the problem was with the version of Win 10 I was using. Marie (GOONS 5318) Bringing the world together one surname at a time. 'A Pepler Name' http://pepler.tribalpages.com 'Hedgerow - the Ancestors' http://cranberry.tribalpages.com Pepler DNA Study http://www.familytreedna.com/public/pepler-ow/ 'Scroops, Scropes and Scroopes' http://dentonlk.tribalpages.com 'Peplers and Peplows' pepler.one-name.net ________________________________ From: John P Laws via <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2016 6:31 AM Subject: [G] Have you had Issues with Your Software Hi One-Namers Everywhere Have you had issues with your software, I have, I used RootsMagic up to V7 then I started getting issues, freezing and continually sending messages about errors back to the vendor. On talking to S & N and by experimentation I find that if one edits a record in V7 then loads V6 the edit shows up. Now here's my question If I use V6 and upgrade step by step to V7 rather than the V7 that I downloaded will I avoid the problems I've been having with V7? I tried using Legacy 7 but found it a very steep learning curve. I having been trying out Family Historian impressed but find very user unfriendly. So am tempted to return to RootsMagic - At least I can talk with Bruce Buzbee and S & N. I'd welcome your views. Of course it could be my SAMSUNG I've other problems, mostly since I upgraded from WIN7 to WIN10 but will post them in a separate mail John P Laws Registrar Laws Family Register Putting Flesh on the Bones of History www.lawsandlawes.blogspot.co.uk _____________________________________________ RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _____________________________________________ RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus _____________________________________________ RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _____________________________________________ RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message