Windows 10 support

[Unmuzzled Music]

Just wondering if there's any information/time frames about Sonar compatibility and support on Windows 10 post Microsoft Dropping support.  Some of us don't want to buy new hardware coz our system works fine and we don't want to contribute to more eWaste.

[Bristol_Jonesey]

I'm stuck with Win 10 because my pc fails the Microsoft test for upgrading to Win 11

If there ever comes a time when Sonar will only run on Win 11, then I am royally stuffed.

Updating my hardware is not an option as I'm now retired with only a small pension.

[msmcleod]

7 minutes ago, Bristol_Jonesey said:

I'm stuck with Win 10 because my pc fails the Microsoft test for upgrading to Win 11

If there ever comes a time when Sonar will only run on Win 11, then I am royally stuffed.

Updating my hardware is not an option as I'm now retired with only a small pension.

I was in the same boat for four of my PC's, however I've successfully upgraded them to Windows 11.  The jump from Windows 10 to Windows 11 is a far smaller jump than say Windows 7 to Windows 10, so it was pretty seamless.

Please note - I'm not suggesting or recommending that you do this, only that it worked for me.  What I would say though, is before doing the upgrade, make sure your Windows 10 machine is completely up to date with Windows updates, and that it gets a clean bill of health with sfc /scannow.
 

 

[Canopus]

2 hours ago, Bristol_Jonesey said:

Updating my hardware is not an option as I'm now retired with only a small pension.

My old backup desktop had a Core i7-3770 and was thus not officially supported for an upgrade to Windows 11. Being a better safe than sorry guy, I didn't want to gamble. A few weeks ago I replaced it with a refurbished office desktop with a Core i7-8700 CPU, which just meets the official requirements for Win11. After moving the disks and the graphics card over from my old PC, I now hopefully have a backup PC for many years to come for not that much money. As an added bonus, the i7-3770 CPU didn’t have AVX2 extensions, which some applications nowadays require. A regedit hack would never have fixed that.

I would never buy a used PC from eBay or such, but from firms with the business idea of refurbishing hardware bought from offices, I don’t really see any risks. Bargains can definitely be found.

Edited 13 hours ago by Canopus

[bvideo]

Two of my PC motherboards have a provision for adding a 'tpm' which is a small dongle that adds a supposedly required security function. That was enough to elevate those machines to be W11-ready. Around $10 each.

[Jeremy Oakes]

7 hours ago, Bristol_Jonesey said:

I'm stuck with Win 10 because my pc fails the Microsoft test for upgrading to Win 11

If there ever comes a time when Sonar will only run on Win 11, then I am royally stuffed.

Updating my hardware is not an option as I'm now retired with only a small pension.

Same here (retired/pension bit) but my laptop, a modest i5, updated a year or so ago with no issues. There are several ways to do it and are all well documented. Just choose the one you feel at ease with.

J

[Colin Nicholls]

My DAW is frozen at a relatively older version of Windows 10 and I've never had any issues whatsoever. Microsoft ended support of it years ago. The sky is still blue and the sun comes up in the morning.