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Hello JonD ,
 As far as I'm concerned it's all good . There is accord between Us .  We are in Harmony .
 all the best ,
 Kenny
 

Hey Kenny,
Yeah, we're cool.
Cheers,
Jon

I used Windows 10 Media Creation Tool to make a DVD of Win 10. I can easily either choose do do the update or a clean install and also use the DVD for recovery console, etc. Tenforums says I can do what I want, make a dual boot system of Win 10 and Win 8.1 and revert back to earlier Win 8.1 images if needed, do a clean install of Win 10 or anything I was asking here in this forum.
 
All of this without the 30 day deadline. The 30 day deadline seems to apply to the rollback feature you can choose in Control Panel. At this point I can see there's no risk. I can even years later boot to Win 8.1 to check settings, or run a project that was started years ago that is not working right in Win 10.
 
I'm not sure exactly when I'll make the plunge but I'll report back to this post and see if it goes as smoothly I it appears right now. I'd say upgrading to Win 10 is a no lose proposition, as long as a user protects themselves from unknown issues by saving an image file or dual booting.
 
http://www.tenforums.com/...uation.html#post536142

Strangely the 2nd time I checked my Windows activation a few minutes later it showed it was. Not sure why it said not activated.
 
So far this is only my internet computer not my DAW and Live Mail was a huge problem getting fixed in Win 10. Live Mail is a quirky program so maybe it's mostly at fault. The dual boot helped figuring out what to do to fix it. Also Firefox kept showing blank tabs, I had to reinstall it.

Did not realize that you have the option to change your mind and revert back to windows 7 in addition to creating a disk to reinstall. I have a win 7 laptop with a bad hard drive. I have to look into this. Thanks for this post!

Before upgrading to Win 10 definitely cover your butt, by at minimum doing an image file backup. I found out with Win 10 that Acronis was not compatible. Most are using the free Macrium Reflect. So many in the Win 10 forum are using it and I think it's great. Just as good as Acronis.  http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx
Once you have an image of your Win 7 HD, go ahead and put a HD in and restore the image to that HD and then you’ll have a dual boot system by just choosing which HD to boot during boot up. At that point I’d say upgrade to Win 10, since you’ll be covered by the dual boot system, if things go haywire with Win 10

3 days ago I upgraded my Win 8.1 main DAW for my recording studio to Win 10. This time I didn't use the install DVD that I made. I just let Win Update do it within Win 8 and it was far easier and faster than when I used the DVD to upgrade Win 7 to Win 10. It only took a few hours. It first downloaded the files and then did the install.
 
Once it was done I made an image file right away. I so far found a few
things that needed some attention. I had to reinstall LoopBe1 a virtual midi
cable and Win 10 initialized the buffer and latency settings for my AVB audio interface.

There was a  1 second delay in latency when I hit a piano key and heard the sound. That was very easy to change back (only 2 parameters). All the other settings were left unchanged.
 
Later I noticed after I made 2 image files that they were quite a bit
larger than Win 8.1. I then found this folder on my C drive called Windows.old. It was huge – 17 gigs. I figured it was my old WIN 8.1 folder.

 I did a Google search and quickly found out what it was and how to delete it safely. Of course if I wanted to use the recovery feature and revert back to Win 8, I’d need that folder, but since I’ve made an image file with that folder, I could always revert back to that image  
 
But I’d prefer to revert to an old Win 8 image instead of using the
recovery feature anyway, so I was glad to delete it. After I did and did a
couple more tweaks and made  anew image file, it was the same size as my Win 8 image, which was good news for me, since I like to keep my C drive lean, so the image files are small.
 
I had a heck of a time getting my Vice Versa network backup to work with
Win 10 and my other 2 computers and found out that it was likely because of that huge Windows.old folder that had a huge number of small files that overloaded my backup program. Once I deleted it, the backup worked fine.
 
It turns out the Acronis 2015 does work fine with Win 10, yet with my Win 7
computer, Acronis 2011 was not compatible with Win 10 and I’m now using Macrium Reflect for image feels and it works great and it’s free.
 
So the bottom line is that the Win 10 upgrade for both computers has worked fine, easier than I expected and if I ever need to dual boot to the old OS to check something, it’ll be easy. I encourage all to upgrade to Win 10, after making an image file or having a 2nd HD with the old OS on it as a precaution.

Win 10 has been easy to adapt to, there’s not a whole lot of difference between it and Win 7 and 8 as far as understanding how to get around and do basic stuff. it feels good to have the latest OS for sure.