Windows 10 updates?

[Bill (Smithville NJ)]

I just finished updating my wife's old laptop today. Took about an hour and went fine.

It's an old Dell laptop, dual core AMD, 2 GB memory. A bit out of date now since it originally came with XP on it. This past weekend, I put a 120gb SSD drive in it and installed a fresh copy of Windows 7. Then forced the update to Windows 10. So the system really had nothing but a base Win 7 on it.

One nice thing I see after the upgrade to Win 10 is that when I Hibernate the system, the hibernate file is only the size of the actual memory used (about 900 Meg) - not the entire 2 GB. Takes about 5 seconds to Hibernate and about 10 seconds to start up from hibernation. Part of the speed is, I'm sure, from the SSD, but having a lot smaller hibernation file really helps also.

I plan on waiting awhile before trying to upgrade my production desktop computer. I will probably install a new hard drive, install fresh copy of Windows 7, and then do a upgrade to Windows 10. That way I can always boot back to my existing system, if something goes wrong. Plus gives me a chance to reinstall only those programs I really use and can have a cleaner system.

Bill
Smithville, NJ