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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mids" data-source="post: 565482" data-attributes="member: 100065">I got it working, thank you.Hahaha, I certainly can't do that. The first thing I tried to do when I booted up this pc was clone a hard drive with Win 7 then proceed to waste the weekend trying to multi-boot (and ultimately doing a factory reset). I wasn't aware of UEFI and chipset imposed limitations (the last PC I bought was in 2009...the dead hard drive had around 3200 days POH while the cloned hdd was from a 2007 pc that I only used for work). A lot of sites talk about how it's easy to run both OS's but leave out crucial data. I actually found reasonable instructions from an official Microsoft post (ironic, right, since their forums are terrible) showing how to install 7 on a 10 pc and tried that route (fresh partition instead of clone) but it kept freezing at installation, then not booting at all. So I gave up, I think running a vm will be fine. To be honest, I am surprised 10 is mostly the same, I mean, directories and files are still there, I know they're not going to reinvent the wheel but why keep Windows Sidebar dirs, etc?So the second biggest annoyance I've had was trying to set the interface. It's strange how despite all the dumbing down, you can actually change a lot via advanced settings or the registry, without screwing up the OS completely. I guess that's a plus, but still, it's basically them not wanting us to customize anything.... (some fixes still don't work, for example...disabling tabbed browsing with the MS browsers). Don't get me started with re-designed software...that's also been a pain. Adobe seems egregious here, but in their defense they did it a couple of years ago (why, why, why?? my old versions ran fine up until two weeks ago).It worked right away, your instructions were clear enough. I wasted all day on other clients and manually importing .emls to m and bird until I somehow had an epiphany and re-visited this forum. And well, for some reason, I noticed the text saying it works on Windows 10 and went for it.You did get me worried about the system updates now though. I suppose I should back up the files. What do the updates do, corrupt the .dlls and registry entries? All the other files are pretty straight forward, doesn't seem like it'd be an issue. Again, another thing I was surprised about, I ran some software directly from a USB drive, no issues at all...previous Windows versions were generally finicky about that (i.e. program files/driver data missing etc), so I guess that's a plus point for 10.</blockquote>

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