Here are the options that Eddie Goldberg discussed, as well as some other generally useful tips:
If you want to upgrade your current computer or tablet to Win 10,
- Use www.Cpubenchmark.net to see if your machine has enough power–need min score of 1500 to run barely
- Must have at least 4G of RAM available
- Need to update BIOS, drivers, video driver, sound driver
- Make sure to make a backup–Win 7 has a back up program
- Can use https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree free program; can copy your computer contents on to multiple devices
- Consider installing a Solid State Drive (SSD)–Computers Direct will copy everything off your old drive and put it on the new drive, which will run incredibly faster
- Can use a ‘classic shell’ to make Win 10 start menu look and work like Win7–from https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/classic_start.html
Other options:
- Buy a new computer–Win 10, chromebook or tablet
- Run Linux on your computer
Discussed cautions
- If has malware, upgrade won’t go well; run malware programs first
- If hardware goes bad, bad hard drive–may not install
How to back up ios machines, phones
- https://www.cultofmac.com/557171/how-to-make-automatic-local-time-machine-style-backups-of-your-iphone/
- Or built in program, Time machine–for Apples; https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201250
