Peter Mangold

31 minutes ago, Noel Borthwick said:

Its actually much preferable to do a clean install of Win10 rather than an upgrade of Win 7. It will still recognize your license but will start without all the baggage and cruft from Win7. I've seen weird behaviors where the search bar was not fully functional after an upgrade install. 

Much easier to troubleshoot as well when you don't have mixed components and a registry upgrade from an old OS.

Noel,

first of all I very much appreciate your clear and open communication. This helps a lot!

Since the upgrade path towards W10 seems not to be possible on my DAW-PC, I am now facing the 'clean install'...

But this would mean that have to do a complete new installation of all HW and SW components, right?

I would need to install all the content, VSTs, Tools, etc. again, including all the painful, and even risky registration/authorization processes,right?

I would at least plan one week of effort for this task and there is actually no way for me personally to do this huge  investment.

If I completely misunderstood the 'clean install' please let me know.

Best regards,

Peter

6 hours ago, msmcleod said:

I had a similar experience, which is why I ended up doing a clean install of W7 and upgraded it after I'd installed all the service packs & updates. I suspect it was down to some old drivers that were present on my W7 system that couldn't be upgraded. 

You're lucky your W7 system still works. My failed upgrade totally trashed my system and forced me to start from scratch.

You could stay on W7 for the time being. Failing remove your existing W7 hard drive, get a new hard drive and do a fresh W7 install before upgrading it. 

 

Thanks! This is a wise recommendation.

I have tried to upgrade from W7 to W10 today but at the very end of the process I always get an error code 0x80004005 and then it stops...

I have already tried several hints from the ms forum but no success.

Any ideas? Do I have to stay with my good old W7?

Thanks in advance,

Peter

15 minutes ago, Peter Mangold said:

Thank you all for your comments!

I think migrating my music PC to W10 is now an option I am thinking about. But this is a decision that needs some more thought... I would love to invest in a new Hardware which would be the natural way of upgrading the OS. But this Christmas it is not on the wishlist...

I wish everybody a mary Christmas and a great start in 2019 with a lot of music!

Peter

 

MERRY Christmas...😁

Thank you all for your comments!

I think migrating my music PC to W10 is now an option I am thinking about. But this is a decision that needs some more thought... I would love to invest in a new Hardware which would be the natural way of upgrading the OS. But this Christmas it is not on the wishlist...

I wish everybody a mary Christmas and a great start in 2019 with a lot of music!

Peter

9 hours ago, John Vere said:

Stability is tied to W10. Your on your own when using W7.   

I use both and definitely have stability issues with my W7 version.  

ANd one of them is that crash after save I used to get on both W7 and W10. For me now W10 is rock solid. But my Laptop is licenced to W7 and I'm to cheap to pay for the upgrade  

Hi John, thanks for your feedback.

This is  actually the first time I read such a strong recommendation to upgrade to W10, especially with respect to stability.

Also the earlier versions of the software since 2018.10 were very stable on W7. Do you think they do not test on W7 any longer?

Hi all,

with the 2018.11 release I had to experience a decrease of stability during my work in the past days.

I faced several crashes e.g. after recording a vocal track and after saving my project, etc...

I did not see such stability issues for a long time. Anybody else with similar experiences?

I use W7 64bit with a Focusrite Clarett USB interface.

Best regards, Peter