I think that next reports explain themselves... if you are a Avast (or AVG) fan, just leave and don´t read next articles.

"The data doesn't include personal information, but experts fear it could be 'de-anonymized.'"
https://www.engadget.com/2020/01/27/avast-jumpshot-selling-user-data/

"Avast and its subsidiary AVG, caught selling customer data to corporate clients last year, are at it again—this time using its free antivirus programs if you opt in to data collection, a new report said Monday. "
https://www.pcworld.com/article/3516502/report-avast-and-avg-collect-and-sell-your-personal-info-via-their-free-antivirus-programs.html

I´m pretty sure many of you have faced issues with network file/printer sharing after an upgrade to Windows 10, a very common issue is to have your network and file sharing restricted or in most cases invisible to other devices on your network, or restricting the acces to previous files/folders/printers shared on it.

To solve this there are a few workarounds on internet, related to but I´ve recently experienced that any of them helped me with a program which share files on network (images). On next I share a simple, but powerful action:

1. Run services.msc
2. Find FUNCTION DESCOVERY PROVIDER HOST and change it values to Automatic (Delayed Start) - Start - Apply
3. Find FUNCTION DESCOVERY RESOURCE PUBLICATION and change it values to Automatic (Delayed Start) - Start - Apply
4. Close and Restart Windows.

Hope this helps...!

@dbeato Yeah, great option, that really helps a lot with previous installation when you don´t have enogh space at hour HDD... thanks!

During my experience upgrading Windows 10 devices, I found devices which has over 100Gb just on the Windows folder (Windows 7), so, after the upgrade that is a lot of wasted space on your HDD if don´t proceed to clean it. To do that, Windows 10 has a very easy tool: Check Storage, if you want to clean unused files (included temp files), you need to proceed as follows:

1. Go to Settings
2. Go to System
3. Go to Storage
4. Click on "Configure Storage Sense or run it Now"
5. Check temporary Files and select as your own need the options
6. On Free up space now, check "Delete previous versions of Windows"
7. Finally click on "Clean Now".. you need to wait some time depending on the file sizes.

In some cases I was allowed to free up to 350Gb... it was a lot of unused files in a Windows folder from Windows 7...

Hope this help you to get more space on your HDD.

@bnrstnr could you please let us know the AMD graphic card model?

@Dashrender yeah... that´s for sure another great option...

The worst nightmare for a Windows 10 migration (from Windows 7), despite the "non compatilitiy" restrictions on Windows 10 update tool, which help to prevent issues, is to have a "Windows installation failed" after wait by (hours ??) and all stopped at 31% (in other cases may be 35%).

Based on my current experience, let me share 3 actions/tips that helped me a lot:

• Check if Windows Security Essentials is installed, if so, please uninstall it before the upgrade.

• Run CMD as Administrator and run "sfc /scannow" - this would take even 30 minutes, depending on you HW, once finished proceed to upgrade.

• Run CMD as Administrator, and run "DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Scanhealth" and "DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth". these two commands may take some time to process.

If these three options doesn´t work, maybe need to consideer a HW issue/conflict, but as always, if any of you have suggestions please let us know...

@siringo said in W7 to 10 Upgrade. Experiences.:

I work on my own and just need to throw some stuff out there to get some general thoughts.
A client has about 15 W7 PCs, they can't afford to replace the PCs so I'm just going to upgrade them to W10.
Just imagine that the upgrade went fine, the hardware is fine, drivers are OK etc, should programs that are running happily on these Windows 7 PCs still run happily on/in/under Windows 10?
I know we can't give an iron clad guarantees and know how everything will end up, but what have others found that have done this?
Have you found it's been a nightmare or have programs just continued to run properly?

In general Windows 10 really handle very well the upgrade process (even better than Windos 7)... I remember Windows XP to Windows 7 upgrades, mostly need a new fresh installation. Said that, the short answer is yes... it´s easy and relatively fast, but as you said, there are not guarantees, there may appear some issues or delays, and there is an universe of situations: Hardware/Software compatibility, etc. The good news is that with Windows Update Tool may help you to prevent of most of the issues related to HW/SW compatibility. My best suggestion is to order all devices, grouping them based on similirities, such as HW and/or age. Test the upgrade in one of each group, see how it run, and then apply to the rest of the group. After the upgrade, take a moment for a restore point and proceed with last windows updates (for some reason some updates may generate some conflicts with old HW). My final advice, once finished, free space on your HDD deleting temp files... Windows 10 has some easy options to perform that.