Viability of an In-place Upgrade from Windows 8.1

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Hi everyone,

I hope you are doing well.

I intend to upgrade an existing Windows 8.1 64 bit PC (specification below) to Windows 10 64 bit in the coming months (before January 2023). The system has a lot of programs installed and to save time re-installing them, I’m strongly considering an in-place upgrade to Windows 10.

How viable is this option? Before using it, I will back up all of the data and create a backup image for recovery outside of Windows if necessary. Should I update chipset, graphics and wired Ethernet drivers before the upgrade?

I have tried running the Media Creation tool for Windows 10 21H2 and it detected no issues and began downloading Windows 10. I halted that download.

Am I likely just to have a few applications to re-install after the upgrade? Thanks in advance for any advice.

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System Specification:

CPU: Intel Core i5 4590 at 3.3 GHz

RAM: 24 GB Corsair CMZ16GX3M2A1866C10 (3x 8 GB modules)

Motherboard: Asus Z97-C (BIOS Version 2103)

GPU: EVGA Geforce GTX 760 Special Edition with 4 GB of RAM (default clock speeds, not factory overclocked)(Nvidia Driver 473.62)

Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty Series

Network Adapter: Intel I218-V Gigabit LAN

PSU: Corsair HX-1000

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When I did an “in place” upgrade to Win10 on my Win7 PC all of my existing programs crossed over and worked just fine, even some very old ones (like Office 97 Pro & PaintShop Pro 7) that the update tool flagged as “incompatible” with Win10.

I had to set “Windows Compatibility mode” to Win7 to get all the features to work for a few of them, but you could count those on one hand.

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Just another Forum Poster wrote:

When I did an “in place” upgrade to Win10 on my Win7 PC all of my existing programs crossed over and worked just fine, even some very old ones (like Office 97 Pro & PaintShop Pro 7) that the update tool flagged as “incompatible” with Win10.

I had to set “Windows Compatibility mode” to Win7 to get all the features to work for a few of them, but you could count those on one hand.

Excellent and sounds great. I’ll perform an in-place upgrade on this z97-C system probably in December and let you know how it goes. I might perform it sooner if the upgrade of my other Windows 8.1 system does smoothly.

Many thanks.

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