[RTTY] Windows 10 Question

[Don Hill AA5AU]

I didn't have any issues moving from Windows 8 to Windows 10 on my ham
desktop PC. Everything worked and it even accepted my 4-port serial board.
Of the programs you mentioned, I know HamCap and DigiPan work. I would
venture to guess the others work too.

It is said that you can revert back to Windows 7 if you don't like Window
10. I don't know how that works, but here's a suggestion I got from Bill,
W6WRT, that works very well. There is a program called Macrium Reflect which
is free for non-commercial use. It allows you to create an image of your
existing hard drive. You save this image to something like an external hard
drive for safe keeping. It also allows you to create bootable rescue media
(USB Flash Drive, CD or DVD) for whatever Windows version(s) you are
running. So you can create an image of your hard drive (and create a rescue
disk or flash drive) for Windows 7. Then you can upgrade to Windows 10. At
that time you can create an image of the Windows 10 hard drive (and rescue
media). Try Windows 10. If you don't like it, re-image your hard drive back
to Window 7. This way you don't have to deal with whatever method Windows
has to revert back from 10 to 7.

Then, in the future when Microsoft stops supporting Windows 7, you will have
an image of Windows 10 and will not have to pay for it. I'm sure there are a
lot of other programs that will do the same thing but Macrium Reflect works
well for me and I use it to backup hard drives on all my personal computers.
Thanks Bill!

I like Windows 10 more than any other Windows operating system. However, on
my work laptop, I tried Windows 10 and there were a couple of things that
did not work so I had to revert back to Windows 7. For one, the old Cisco
VPN client software will not work on Windows 10 and they even tell you that
before you install Windows 10. (There was a workaround for installing it
found on the Internet. I was able to install it, but it wouldn't connect.)
It does support the newer Cisco client but I still have customers that use
the old client. Also, if you have equipment that requires you to use MS
Internet Explorer for programming, then there could be an issue. In Windows
10, Microsoft introduced the new Edge browser. And even though you can
invoke Internet Explorer from within Edge, I have found that it just doesn't
work for some applications. I have no such requirements in the ham shack so
Windows 10 works well for me there.

73, Don AA5AU 

-----Original Message-----
From: RTTY [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Bill Turner
Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2016 12:59 PM
To: RTTY Reflector
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Windows 10 Question

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On Sun, 10 Jul 2016 12:49:34 -0500, you wrote:

>
>I have desktops running WindowsXP, Vista, and System 7. Microsoft has 
>been badgering me for months to install the free upgrade from Windows 7 
>to Windows 10. My concern is that some of my ham software might not 
>work on Windows 10, e.g. DX Atlas, HamCAP, IonoProbe, W6EL Prop, DXPWin 
>3.0, DigiPan, etc. Does anyone have direct experience with these 
>programs in a Windows 10 environment? I've heard that sound card 
>digital modes can be challenging with Windows 10.  I have until the end 
>of the month to decide whether or not to upgrade. Would I be better off 
>to keep Windows 7 for the ham shack?
>
> 
>
>Nelson, KU0A

REPLY:

Of the programs you listed, I run only DX Atlas and I can verify it runs
perfectly on Win10. I also use the DXLab suite and N1MM Logger + as well as
fldigi both in standalone and bridged to DXLabs. They all work perfectly
with no fuss just using the sound card on the motherboard. 

The only issue at all was that Win10 reassigned some of my com port numbers
but that was easily fixed. 

73, Bill W6WRT
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