Easy Peasy.
 
This was a "bare bones" Win 7 Pro Install.
 
Next was the lappy (Win 7 Home Premium).

bapu
Easy Peasy.
 
This was a "bare bones" Win 7 Install.

Win 7? 

You should see how fast it is at putting the OS back to Win 7. 

ampfixer
You should see how fast it is at putting the OS back to Win 7. 

lol, it is actually even faster

my DAW upgrade win 7 pro to win 10 pro went SUPER EASY PEAZY!!!
 
I had a few re authorizations, AD2, sum focusrite stuff, most drivers are there including my alpha track, fader track and tascam fw1082, plus the focusrite DSP24 and Liquid saffire, hell, even my old powercore element card !!
 
Now I love this much better than that krappy win 8 hahahah  the audio is better , in fact I am thinking of experimenting with the wdm drivers instead of asio
 
I am not worried about the spying issues I have turned off sharing

Hi,
 
All of my machines are on PRO versions, and I was wondering if I would have any issues with W7-64 Pro. I kinda did not expect any, and will see about getting that machine done today or tomorrow.
 
Usually, the PRO versions, being that they are meant for business, are much cleaner than the Home versions, and should have an easier time upgrading, has been my experience.

Good to hear MM, I too will be upgrading from 8.1 to 10 (soon).
 
What's the best way to do a backup before taking the plunge? (I normally backup my OS (C: Drive) once a month to an internal HD...... (I have Acronis 13).
I suppose I should be backing it up to my 3TB external drive as well.   

Last night I did a full image of my lappy's C: drive. To be prepared to re-image if Win 10 upgrade fails to install or perform.
 
It used to be my secondary DAW but I stopped that earlier this year. It's now a "work from home" workstation and it houses Photoshop and Illustrator.
 
On the "downside" it's Win 7 Home. I'll report back in tomorrow on the Win 10 upgrade for that machine.
 
I'm saving the DAW upgrade for the weekend (and maybe not this coming weekend).

I also do the (monthly) full image......is that all I really need to do before installing Win 10?

Mesh
I also do the (monthly) full image......is that all I really need to do before installing Win 10?

IMO to be safe, yeah.
 
To live dangerously jut upgrade. That's what I did for this bare bones Win 7 pro machine. There was absolutely NOTHING critical on that machine so I had nothing to lose. As it was, it was a seamless upgrade.