| Dean, Your Win7 license/COA allows you to upgrade your Win7 machine to Win10 for free. If your machine is incapable of running Win10, it is likely quite old and a hardware upgrade may be in order. Windows 7 was released Oct. 2009, and was EOL on Jan 2020. Win 10 was released in July of 2015 and will go EOL Oct 2025. If your computer shipped with Win7, it is easily 7 years old, and lacking on-going support/security patches, is a security problem waiting to happen. You can certainly choose to continue running Win 7 if you like, but if that machine is connected to the internet, the security risks are high, and the number of programs that have compatibility issues will only increase over time. If you choose not to upgrade your current system, it is your choice to remain in an environment that is unsupported by CHIRP for reasons that are based on technical realities, not the capricious whim of the developers that can be influenced by the dangling of withheld donations. The Windows 10 upgrade can be done in-place, assuming your Win7 machine has sufficient free space on the hard drive. You may want to swap a solid state drive (SSD) for your current spinning hard drive (HDD) - Win10 has been known to set the machine to "thrashing" when running off a HDD, but not when run off an SSD, and an SSD will make your old Win7 system more responsive no matter which version of Windows you run. I'm happy to help if want some pointers on upgrading your Win7 system to Win10 - my suggestion would be to get an SSD, transfer your Win7 HDD contents to the SSD, remove the Win7 HDD as a backup, then, once you are ready to upgrade, ask windows for an upgrade (several methods possible) and see how it goes - you can always fall back to your Win7 HDD. There are numerous free programs to transfer your Win7 system HD contents to a new drive, I quite like the free version of Macrium: I hope this is helpful, Good luck, take care, Ken On Jan 2, 2023, at 09:14, Dean Berglund <[email protected]> wrote:
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