Listening to the Voices in My Head

Close to 2 months, I used Windows 10 boot drive.   Stability; good.  Updates; too many, too annoying. Updates have a horrible habit of overwriting/removing anything you might have done.
 
Nannyware/nagware; I so wish Microsoft would understand that people want to control their OS and computers, not have Microsoft do it for them. 

Customizations are more than just a wee bit difficult to do (some impossible), and I can't say how much I dislike..no, loathe that desktop tile layout. It is sloppy.  I installed StartMenuX and got it back to a configurable, cleaner layout. 

Biggest Bugbear for me (and for my husband, too) was not only the total removal of Windows Media Center, but making it so you couldn't even install it even if you had the ability to do so.

I am currently back on my Windows 7 Boot drive.  It took a while to get all the programs and Windows updated after such a long time of not using it.  After that was finished, I can't say how much better Windows 7 is from Windows 10.

It's not just using legacy software that can no longer be installed due to software maker using different authentication service, or legacy hardware (the hardware works in Win 10, but the software for it doesn't. Go figure.

But I find Windows 7 also stable, the updates have only broken one software makers programs (Yes, I really liked ArcSoft MediaCenter. It was better than anything else that has so far followed, but they rather stupidly didn't pay Dolby licensing fees so no updates after v6x, and Microsoft closed off the program's ability to use the kernel for better performance, thereby it no longer would work).

It's not even the desktop layout, because by use of StartMenuX, both Win 7 and Win 10 look the same.

Overall, I find Windows 7 the winner over Windows 10.  So, as long as I can install software on Windows 7 boot drive, I will.  I know that sooner or later I will be forced to move over to Win 10 only as software makers will be painted into a corner of "Make it work with only our latest OS".

I got an error at the End of Sale page and it said "Unfortunately there was a problem activating your service. Please Contact Support." so I took screen cap of the error/message and submitted it.

Me:
Subj: Error message at end of sale.
Msg: It said contact support. (image attached)

Them:
Msg: Hello,
Thank your for your message. As far as I can tell, your service is active and should work without any problems. Did you receive an error message or something?

Me:
Msg: I don't mean to sound cranky, but I sent you a screencap of the error I got an the End Of Sale. Didn't anyone bother to look at that? That *was* the error I got, and I even said so in the subject of the request.
If your End Of Sale page is kicking back false error messages, maybe that needs to be seen to, yes?

aka data migration, 2nd attempt.

After sending diagnostic reports to Zinstall and my trading emails, they called me (gawd I wish they would pay attention to the time difference. I clearly stated UTC +8 Perth) but they told me that disabling Malwarebytes isn't good enough, that it has to be uninstalled. Also, even though it's not running, the AVG toolbar included in Google Chrome would also interfere with a clean data migration.

So, started Zinstall, letting it run overnight and made a new container/image with no anti virus/spyware running. Then last night, I started Zinstall migration. Since I have it on an external USB drive it's taking longer. Currently at 22% done.

So, on my Vaio, but this time I have external HDMI monitor hooked up. Yes,my workflow is so ingrained, I hooked up monitor to the laptop.

Although it seems it's taking so long to migrate the image file to the external SSD I have hooked up, I know that it would have taken a helluva lot longer to have had to deactivate, reinstall, reboot over and over. Weeks before I had everything up and running the same. My only problem might be some software that was on sale for a special price, might not work on the new computer. If not, I will send email off to the vendors in hopes they will rectify the situation.

It's been a while since I've used my laptop for an extended time. I also think I got a bit spoiled with the dual monitors. I got so accustomed to multitasking that I find it difficult to do it on a single screen. heh

And I keep what can be updated, updated.

There are certain software/hardware that never made it to the next generation of Windows, even with "compatibility mode". There is also the lack of full screen DOS window with Post WinXP. And all hype aside, Windows XP is a good stable OS.

So, my netbook is updated, Windows Virtual Machine on my Win7 desktop have been kept updated.