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I'm sure with all the IT managers on here someone will know the answer to this!
I'm currently running Windows 7 enterprise on my pc and I want to move to Windows 10. It appears it's not as simple as just upgrading versions, and I may need to overwrite everything on my current system.
Importantly I have an app currently that is no longer supported by the developer. If I simply reinstall it using the disk I have it on I'll lose all the updates I've downloaded over the years so just wiping the pc and starting again isn't an option
Happy to pay for a windows upgrade if that's what's required however key here is I don't lose access to the aforementioned programme
Any ideas for an it illiterate simpleton?
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I’m currently running Windows 7 enterprise
This is what will make things difficult. A standard Win7 or Win8 installation will upgrade to Win10. An Enterprise installation will depend on what your organization has signed up for and how they are managing your machine.
If your machine has a Win7 licence key printed on the back, that should work to install Win10 (that key will probably be a Win7 Pro version, not Enterprise). If it were me, I'd buy a new hard disk (SSD, obviously) and clone the system to that. Then remove the original hard disk, boot from the new disk and try upgrading that to Win10 using the Win7 licence key printed on the machine. If it goes bad you should be able to just put the original disk back in and be back to where you started.
An Enterprise installation will depend on what your organization has signed up for and how they are managing your machine.
It's not a work computer. It's a home pc I use for zwift and the like. Is Windows enterprise for company use then? And I assume it's not something I should have on my home machine.
FWIW I'd also be looking for a replacement program for whatever function is being provided by the unsupported one. You are going to want to apply ongoing Windows/Security updates and you are leaving yourself open to a sudden, unrecoverable failure.
The programme I want to keep is tacx tts4. It's an old programme that runs with my turbo and let's me run a ton of video courses i have previously acquired.
I only use the machine for turbo training activity, zwift, trainer road etc so If it fails in future I'll just wipe and move to Windows 10 then.
There are however a number of training apps I'd like to try that only run on Windows 10. I have a windows 10 laptop however the spec is awful compared to this machine.
I'm assuming that would require me to upgrade to Windows 10 in first place no?
The programme I want to keep will run fine on Windows 10, I just can't seem to get windows 10 without a complete install.
Have you tried?