For anyone who uses Windows 7 still. What are your experiences in 2018, and also rationale for using it?
Me: I no longer use Windows 7, but my father does. It works pretty well for him, on his old Dell XPS 9100.
skane2600
<p>During the free upgrade period I went from 7 to 10 and started having problems. Ultimately every time I tried to install the Anniversary update, it would always fail at the last minute. Eventually the system just crashed and none of the recovery schemes were successful.</p><p><br></p><p>Eventually I booted from a RAM test CD and found one of the memory tests failed (the one where data is written and then checked after a time delay). So I removed the memory modules one at a time until I could identify which one was failing and removed the failed module permanently . Then I ordered the OEM disks for my computer from a company that sells them (My PC was an old Gateway so I couldn't get the disks from the manufacturer) and reinstalled everything and the Win7 system works (although with less RAM -haven't bothered to replace the bad module).</p><p><br></p><p>I suspect that the Windows 10 upgrade failed because of some system consistency check that failed during the very long install process that was caused by the bad module. Considering all the hassle involved in getting the PC working again, I'm not really motivated to attempt to go back to Windows 10 especially if I had to buy it.</p><p><br></p><p>The only reason I wanted to upgrade to Windows 10 in the first place was the possibility of writing UWP apps but my interest faded pretty fast. There's really nothing unique that Windows 10 offers that I'm interested in.</p>