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April 22nd 17, 04:26 AM
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do I need these ISO's kicking around still?
Hi All,
I just installed Win10_1703_English_x64_Creators_Edition.iso. I did a hard drive wipe and reinstall. Seems to be working okay. Well, for Windows 10 that is. And I am thinking of doing a little house cleaning. Do I need these ISO's kicking around still? Win10_1511_2_English_x64.iso Win10_1511_English_x64.iso Win10_1607_English_x64.iso -T 
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April 22nd 17, 05:15 AM
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On 2017-04-21 23:26, T wrote:
Hi All, I just installed Win10_1703_English_x64_Creators_Edition.iso. I did a hard drive wipe and reinstall. Seems to be working okay. Well, for Windows 10 that is. And I am thinking of doing a little house cleaning. Do I need these ISO's kicking around still? Win10_1511_2_English_x64.iso Win10_1511_English_x64.iso Win10_1607_English_x64.iso Might wanna keep this stuff for a while still, never know which customer will have stuff that only works on 1511 or on 1607... -- ! _\|/_ Sylvain / ! (o o) Member  avid-Suzuki-Fdn/EFF/Red+Cross/SPCA/Planetary-SocietyoO-( )-Oo PRIME DIRECTIVE MY A**! Phasers on maximum!
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April 22nd 17, 05:24 AM
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On 04/21/2017 09:15 PM, B00ze wrote:
On 2017-04-21 23:26, T wrote: Hi All, I just installed Win10_1703_English_x64_Creators_Edition.iso. I did a hard drive wipe and reinstall. Seems to be working okay. Well, for Windows 10 that is. And I am thinking of doing a little house cleaning. Do I need these ISO's kicking around still? Win10_1511_2_English_x64.iso Win10_1511_English_x64.iso Win10_1607_English_x64.iso Might wanna keep this stuff for a while still, never know which customer will have stuff that only works on 1511 or on 1607... I hold my breath whenever I get to a customer site with Windows 10. Maybe in two years things will settle down.
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April 22nd 17, 06:36 AM
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T wrote in news
Hi All, I just installed Win10_1703_English_x64_Creators_Edition.iso. I did a hard drive wipe and reinstall. Seems to be working okay. Well, for Windows 10 that is. And I am thinking of doing a little house cleaning. Do I need these ISO's kicking around still? Win10_1511_2_English_x64.iso Win10_1511_English_x64.iso Win10_1607_English_x64.iso -T I've always been a little anal about deleting sources. It doesn't cost much or take up much space to burn them to a DVD and store them. There have been times when I wanted an older version of some software but couldn't find it available anywhere. In the same way when I get an online upgrade of some installed software I keep the last three versions available. Has come in handy some times.
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April 22nd 17, 07:11 AM
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On 04/21/2017 10:36 PM, Tim wrote:
T wrote in news
Hi All, I just installed Win10_1703_English_x64_Creators_Edition.iso. I did a hard drive wipe and reinstall. Seems to be working okay. Well, for Windows 10 that is. And I am thinking of doing a little house cleaning. Do I need these ISO's kicking around still? Win10_1511_2_English_x64.iso Win10_1511_English_x64.iso Win10_1607_English_x64.iso -T I've always been a little anal about deleting sources. It doesn't cost much or take up much space to burn them to a DVD and store them. There have been times when I wanted an older version of some software but couldn't find it available anywhere. In the same way when I get an online upgrade of some installed software I keep the last three versions available. Has come in handy some times. Thank you! I only use my W-10 virtual machine for research and I want it to closely match what my customer have.
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April 22nd 17, 04:32 PM
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do I need these ISO's kicking around still?
On 04/22/2017 01:11 AM, T wrote:
On 04/21/2017 10:36 PM, Tim wrote: T wrote in news
Hi All, I just installed Win10_1703_English_x64_Creators_Edition.iso. I did a hard drive wipe and reinstall. Seems to be working okay. Well, for Windows 10 that is. And I am thinking of doing a little house cleaning. Do I need these ISO's kicking around still? Win10_1511_2_English_x64.iso Win10_1511_English_x64.iso Win10_1607_English_x64.iso -T I've always been a little anal about deleting sources. It doesn't cost much or take up much space to burn them to a DVD and store them. There have been times when I wanted an older version of some software but couldn't find it available anywhere. In the same way when I get an online upgrade of some installed software I keep the last three versions available. Has come in handy some times. Thank you! I only use my W-10 virtual machine for research and I want it to closely match what my customer have. Well. the old versions are pretty much being force-upgraded but no harm in keeping the old iso's
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April 22nd 17, 05:48 PM
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T wrote in news
On 04/21/2017 10:36 PM, Tim wrote: T wrote in news
I only use my W-10 virtual machine for research and I want it to closely match what my customer have. That's the advantage of virtual machines. You can set up a separate VM for each of your clients configurations, then backup the entire VM setup and virtual disk. If you don't have enough disk space, make a couple of copies so you have a backup. Then when a client upgrades, you can upgrade your copy and keep the current backup copy as an archive and do the backups all over again. I've go a couple of Western Digital portable drives I use for backup. If I was running your setup, I would image the entire virtual machine onto a portable drive. That way you could take it along to your customer site and make sure you and they were identical, and use files/data from your copy to fix their's if needed. Depending on how big your customer(s) is/are and how critical their systems are, I would keep a copy of the image file in an off-site backup site located at least 25 miles away. If you or your customers are in a hurricane prone area I would make that backup site at least a hundred miles inland - remember Katrina and Sandy.
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April 22nd 17, 09:58 PM
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do I need these ISO's kicking around still?
philo wrote:
On 04/22/2017 01:11 AM, T wrote: On 04/21/2017 10:36 PM, Tim wrote: T wrote in news
Hi All, I just installed Win10_1703_English_x64_Creators_Edition.iso. I did a hard drive wipe and reinstall. Seems to be working okay. Well, for Windows 10 that is. And I am thinking of doing a little house cleaning. Do I need these ISO's kicking around still? Win10_1511_2_English_x64.iso Win10_1511_English_x64.iso Win10_1607_English_x64.iso -T I've always been a little anal about deleting sources. It doesn't cost much or take up much space to burn them to a DVD and store them. There have been times when I wanted an older version of some software but couldn't find it available anywhere. In the same way when I get an online upgrade of some installed software I keep the last three versions available. Has come in handy some times. Thank you! I only use my W-10 virtual machine for research and I want it to closely match what my customer have. Well. the old versions are pretty much being force-upgraded but no harm in keeping the old iso's In theory, the 1511 DVDs might be old enough, they will no longer receive Windows Updates. It would be worth keeping them, just to test that :-) Only two releases at a time receive Windows Update. Which at the moment would be 14393 and 15063. 1607 and 1704 or whatever. I have a machine at 10586 and I hope to test that. Whenever my curiosity gets the better of me. Paul
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#9
April 23rd 17, 02:00 AM
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On 04/22/2017 11:48 AM, Tim wrote:
T wrote in news
On 04/21/2017 10:36 PM, Tim wrote: T wrote in news
I only use my W-10 virtual machine for research and I want it to closely match what my customer have. That's the advantage of virtual machines. You can set up a separate VM for each of your clients configurations, then backup the entire VM setup and virtual disk. If you don't have enough disk space, make a couple of copies so you have a backup. Then when a client upgrades, you can upgrade your copy and keep the current backup copy as an archive and do the backups all over again. I've go a couple of Western Digital portable drives I use for backup. If I was running your setup, I would image the entire virtual machine onto a portable drive. That way you could take it along to your customer site and make sure you and they were identical, and use files/data from your copy to fix their's if needed. Depending on how big your customer(s) is/are and how critical their systems are, I would keep a copy of the image file in an off-site backup site located at least 25 miles away. If you or your customers are in a hurricane prone area I would make that backup site at least a hundred miles inland - remember Katrina and Sandy. I sometimes give advice over the phone and booting to the OS the person is actually using helps. The only installation of Win8 I have is virtual. At one time I had Win10 Tech Preview in a virtual machine but the performance was quite bad. Today I decided I wanted a " bare metal" machine in my shop so upgraded a Win7 machine and when the upgrade was complete Win10 was already activated. It seems their free upgrade offer did not in actuality expire yet.
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