I'm ready to upgrade the OS for the studio machine and am looking for advice. Is there any advantage to using the Pro version over the Home version?
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I'm ready to upgrade the OS for the studio machine and am looking for advice. Is there any advantage to using the Pro version over the Home version?
Angie,
I know that there are some who will disagree with me, but the Pro versions are more tweak-able.
I have been working with MS software since the early 90's and have always preferred and recommended Pro since that time.
If you can, try to obtain a copy of the LTSB, Long Term Servicing Branch, version - even though MS has made this very difficult.
I have ran fairly extensive testing using Home, Pro and LTSB and LTSB is much more efficient. Even with Pro tweaked, LTSB is much slimmer.
I hope this helps.
PS: There are some "nifty" utilities out there that helps to remove a lot of the kludginess of WIN10 if you are at all interested?
Hope this helps?
One important thing is to be able to control when updates are done. I have found this is easier in the Pro version. How do I know? Because my laptop came with Win10 Home and my desktop studio computer build uses Win10Pro.
Del, I would like to know, If I have Pro and would like to move to LTSB, would I have to pay the license fee again?
Also, how would I find utilities that would improve the efficiency of Win10?
Cary,
Regarding updates, and I know that I might get myself I real trouble here, but in both Pro and LTSB I have been able to completely disable updates. I have been unable to do this with Home.
Pro to LTSB - these seems to be a lot of confusion on this subject. I talked to a number of different people, either from MS or partners, and I never got a conclusive answer from any one of them.
However, both of this links do show an upgrade path from Pro to Enterprise.
Windows 10 Upgrade Paths
Windows 10 Edition Upgrades - this is the main one
The utilities - I will compile a listing for you and Angie over the next few days.
Thanks!
I knew the answer as I've always tried to use a pro version. But I wondered if anything had changed.
I would love to find an LTSB version. I usually don't upgrade and instead use a clean hard drive when moving to a new OS. That way, if I need to work before I've gotten everything stabilized I can quickly throw the old drive in.
FWIW (maybe not much) -- every few months I come across another detail of the Home version that I find out would've been better serviced (more capable, more tweakable, etc.) with the Pro version. I'd thought, initially, that Home would be "plenty" for me. I believe I was wrong. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Angie
Hello,
As mentioned, here is compilation of handy utilities for Windows 10.
Most of these utilities were originally installed on my test-bench system, and then made into "portable apps" - so no actual installation is required. I have provided download links to the original installers if you should so choose - even though I do not see why anyone would?
All of the following utilities have been packaged into a single ZIP file for your convenience.
Download here: WIN10_Utilities - 15.3MB
Other pertinent information:
Check out this site: Winaero
And the following:
Classic Task Manager
Installer download
Windows Aero Tweaker
Installer download
Windows 10 Manager, Installer download
O&O ShutUp10
Installer download
I do hope that you find these little snippets helpful? I did...and still do!
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PS: I do find this point interesting - in that it would appear, that we are doing all that we can to make other iterations of the Windows OS's function as XP did!
How about this: If WIN10, then DO XP UNTIL 10=XP!!