If you do go back the way always get the pro version

Always used the pro ones, currently on win 7 pro 64bit, all updates disabled for about 4 years so far

+1 to what Howard said.

I have one installation of Win-7 and one of Win8.1 (despite some people professing to love Win-7 and hate Win8x, the latter is really only Win7 with minor updates and that admittedly 'orrible shell …. which can easily be dealt with).

Tried Win10 and didn't like it. Besides which, as I understand it, at least in the Home edition, you have no choice about updates. If MS so decrees, you get updates. I like to choose mine, particularly with some updates (if you read the docs) containing residual bugs. (One update a while back said there was a "possibility" that the network card drivers would need to be re-installed and any network reconfigured if you installed that update! I didn't install it and have never noticed the loss).

The thing you will likely find as time goes on is that new apps and hardware will not have drivers for earlier Windows versions such as Win7/8. 

Edited By Peter Greene on 07/09/2021 01:48:39

Clive, I'm not quite sure what's going wrong here.
Are you downloading direct from the camera, or from your memory card?
I normally use the SD card in a reader on the PC and don't have any issues; I have a folder for all 2021 photos, and sub folders for each day, titled with the date and contents. e.g. yesterday's folder is "2021-09-06 Old Moor"
I then just copy and paste the camera's memory card contents into the folder.
600+ transferred yesterday with no issues.
After launching my processing software (DxO Optics) I just point it at the new folder.

Bill

Worth investigating as Bill suggests before going to the painful bother of reverting to Windows 7. As Windows 10 is supposed to handle pictures OK, and most owners are happy it does, I suspect Clive's problem is a mismatch of some sort between his older camera and it's Windows 10 driver.

What's the make and model of the camera? We can check if the manufacturer has updated W10 drivers for it. Also, it sounds as if the photo manager is different, and needs changing. Possibly the camera's memory needs to be reformatted. Fingers crossed, it's an easy fix.

Dave

I have no issues with Win10 either. I do have some older programs that will not run under Win10 but I have VMware to run a virtual XP machine for them (flat bed scanner for instance). I also sometimes use Hyper-V to run an XP virtual machine but file transfer between XP and Win10 is easier with VMware. VMware will save to a USB memory stick but Hyper-V will not, it has a higher level of security that prevents it from accessing USB ports. With Hyper-V I have to mount and unmount virtual hard or floppy drives to transfer files.

Martin C

John
I’m afraid so much FUD (fear, uncertainty + doubt) has been spread by M/S that many actually buy into it – even our Editor.

Possibly in the distant past it was true that Linux required greater knowledge and of course many with that knowledge moved once they could escape from proprietary packages and lockin but these days most Linux packages work straight out of the box and are even happy to share a machine with M/S (the reverse is however not the case) – I usually recommend Mint as the distribution very suitable for those moving from Windows but recently I’ve been moving my older machine to MXLinux (base is Debian 10) which has an excellent range of tools carefully chosen from the vast array and eg one being Wine fully integrated into the package – WINE allows easy running of those M/S programs that are ‘essential’ for the non-Linux users and cause much of the Lockin. I usually suggest they buy a cheap SSD memory eg CEX sell 128GB devices for around ?25 and swop out their hardrive (generally a trivial task) and install MXLinux from DVD or USB stick – many tutorials online.

Edited By Frances IoM on 07/09/2021 16:38:17

Perhaps that came out wrong! I was actually trying (obviously ineptly) to point out that Linux is a widely used, stable, user friendly OS. I've been using it for years. The only application I cannot get to run on it is Alibre due in no small part to MS insisting on using DirectX.

John

Just be grateful it didn't take a day

H

Even the "Unknown" OS managed to garner 3.6%

If that was the case then surely it would be zero?!