Dave Crozier wrote:
Well 12+ hours in from Brexit and the world hasn't ended and life seems to be
carrying on much like before... in fact even the weather is the same i.e. Crap!
As for VFP, been up and running on Windows 10 64 Bit now for a week and no
problems to report at all apart from the fact that it runs much faster than on
Windows 7 (same machine and memory). Only gripe is that Windows has
automatically rebooted twice for updates (presumably) overnight as I put this
as the preferred update time and subsequently reloaded my two USB security
disks which were encrypted but with the wrong drive assignments and leaving
them locked by Bitlocker. Hence my overnight backups haven't been successful -
Hey Ho, Life goes on!
Dave
Dave,
I spent the last 4 days working on upgrading several Win7 Pro systems to
Win10 Pro, and late last night I finally found the right combination of
pieces to make it all work well. I upgraded my personal workstation
using the online upgrade, and not a single application suffered in the
process (and I have a gob of various programs installed on my 1TB drive!)
I did find that it's a very good idea to use an Administrator account to
do the upgrade. Also, if you have Logmein installed, the Win10 upgrade
will fail complaining about incompatible video drivers. I tried
downloading and burning a DVD to use for the upgrades, and it always
asks for a Registration Key even when updating a valid installation.
After it rejected 5 different keys, three brand new and had never been
used, I gave up on that approach.
Only 180+ systems left to go...
I agree that VFP9 SP2 seems snappier and so far I've seen just one true
bug in the VFP+Win10 combo...which is that the caption bar control box
buttons will revert to their old XP style if you define and display a
form maximized...but if you maximize the form after it has already been
displayed, the control box (min, max, close) buttons will show with the
new Win10 minimalized look.
Probably the best thing in my opinion is that when a command, like a
slow SQL statement, takes more than a few seconds, you don't get that
stupid Windows 7 "not responding" thing on the caption bar. Things still
take a while, but Windows just takes it in stride better.
I would HIGHLY recommend getting the free for any type of use and very
well done Classic Start Menu at www.ClassicShell.net. I spent hours
trying to figure out how to limit the damage end users could do with the
new Win10 start menu, but after replacing it with Classic Start Menu my
problems are mostly over. (I'm still trying to eliminate OneDrive from
appearing in the File Explorer.) Also, check out the Ultimate Windows
Tweaker 4.1.1 at www.TheWindowsClub.com. It will save you a lot of time
with the Group Policy Editor (if, like me, you aren't using a domain.)
Mike Copeland
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