Need advice on switching from Win7Pro to Win10Pro, with circumstances

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Hi,

I’ve been trying to find something that will help me understand which might be better, but I’m spinning in circles.  I’ve got a workstation that I thought I’d be keeping on 7Pro but the drive is dying fast, the backups won’t restore to the new drive (NVME vs SATA) and the procedure to add NVME support to 7 had me spinning even worse.

So, I’ve got a drive that I previously installed Win10Pro on, it looks like up to version 1511.

My question:  Is it possible to skip all the steps between 1511 and jump to 1909, and if not is it better to go through the updates from 1511 or just wipe out 1511 and reinstall 1909?  I’m not sure if I ever had the media for Win10, this unit came with Win7Pro.

Sorry this is so long and involved,

Thanks for any help,

Mike

Dell Precision T-7810,
with new NVME SSD & old SATA HDD & nearly dead OCZ Vertex SSD
was on Win7Pro which died, newly on old Win10 1511 and confused greatly

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1511 to 1909 can be done by downloading the ISO from MS with the Media Creation Tool.
Burn the ISO to USB.
Run setup.exe from the USB while running 1511.

Backup first, of course.

cheers, Paul

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MikeS_inFL

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Thanks Paul, that definitely sounds much easier than all the bumps I’m sure would happen with doing it the long the way.

Mike

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Sometimes, I think I read my way into trouble.

I was reading more about the different KB’s that Microsoft has been delivering.  I imagine many of these will be in the ISO available from Microsoft.  Is there an easy way of disabling those particular patches/updates that have disagreeable payloads after updating?  Or even a somewhat difficult way of getting rid of them?

Thanks again,

Mike

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You can’t uninstall individual patches in Win10.
Whatever Build you install is CUMULATIVE, contains all the past Builds (Builds are like Rollups in Win7/8.1).
When updating, you can roll back to a previous Build within 10 days if the current Build causes problems. OR, you can skip a Build and hope the next Cumulative Update contains the fix for your problem.
You can wait to install the next version (Feature Update) until it is stable or until the one you are on reaches EOL.

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MikeS_inFL, geekdom

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Thanks PKCano,

It’s going to take some getting used to Win10, I think.

I’m sure I must have read that somewhere but I must have been getting 7 & 10 updates confused.

I guess I’ll be swimming in the deep pool soon after all.  No matter how much I tried to avoid leaving Win7, my computer has it in for me.

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PKCano wrote:

You can’t uninstall individual patches in Win10.

That’s unfortunate; uninstalling patches is sometimes useful and very informational. Is this information anywhere in Microsoft documentation?

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The Builds in Win10 are all one “Patch.” There are no individual “patches” within a Build (Cumulative Update) that you can uninstall separately. (This doesn’t include .NET, IE Flash, and MSTR which are not the Win OS itself)

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MikeS_inFL wrote:

disabling those particular patches/updates that have disagreeable payloads

If you mean telemetry then there are ways to shut it up, O&O ShutUp10 is one.

cheers, Paul

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MikeS_inFL

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Paul,

Yes, that’s definitely one of them.  I couldn’t remember the word.

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