So I'm currently having some hardware problems which have reminded me that staying on win 7 is definitely is not tenable long term. I was already planning to transfer to windows 10 ltsc, but haven't figured out the best way to do so yet. Microsoft officially doesn't support in place upgrade from 7 to 10 ltsc, but considering the "windows 7 does not support new Intel chipset" thing from a year or so back which turned out to be a single Boolean check in windows update, not any fundamental incompatibility, I take that with a grain of salt. Does one of you fine people know how such an in place upgrade could be achieved while preserving installed programs etc.? I have the non-eufi version of windows 7 ultimate.
Best would be to go Win 7 Ult >> Win 10 Pro first, since is a supported upgrade path. Make backups before and after. Then go Win 10 Pro >> LTSC 2019 via Up/Down-Trick, you can use the LIC SWITCHER feature of my JATD GUI tool to do the needed reg changes .
It does, since for the system it's like an 'Repair-Inplace-Upgrade from LTSC to LTSC . Needs the Pro to have correct Reg Entries for LTSC 2019. JATDs LIC SWITCH sets them accordingly.
To go Win 10 Pro >> LTSC 2019 with JATD: In tools LIC SWITCH tab in first drop-down choose EnterpriseS, have the LTSC ISO mounted and in second drop-down use UP_DOWN_SET_ONLY, then press 'SWITCH', start the setup.exe of mounted LTSC ISO afterwards.
Thanks. Just to be sure, those backups, should I make it just of my system (C: )drive or also of my D: drive, which contains most installed programs? Making a full backup of D: might take more space than I currently have available on by back-up drive.
So he won't be around anymore? It is really sad to lose such good value among us, I hope it will return to us again. Thank you for your answer.