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my experience upgrading Win7 box to build 9926
I tried it an old PC that has lots of software and has some low-level things like Boxcryptor (which creates a virtual drive) and software that requires activation. I first took a backup using Macrium Reflect so I could restore if possible. The system has an old Intel Core Duo 3.0 GHz E8400 and 8 GB of RAM. It's not exactly a screaming PC.
The upgrade itself went smoothly. I chose the Windows Update option. While I haven't tested the functionality of all apps yet, especially some older stuff like Nero 10, i've only noticed a few issues so far:
1) Kaspersky Anti-Virus 15 MR1 (15.0.1.415b) was disabled entirely -- it even removed the service. I had disabled it for the upgrade so it wouldn't cause problems, but MS removed it. MR2 is done with beta-testing, Kaspersky just hasn't publicly released it yet. So I'll try installing it when they do, & I'll stick with Windows Defender for now.
2) WebMinds' Easy Duplicate Finder v.4.7.0.391 got deactivated. Of course, this software has the most flawed activation system on the planet. Changing the amount of RAM, even upgrades of the program itself can deactivate it. Literally any change breaks this. Of all the software I have that requires activation, this is the only one I've had issues with, and I've had several. It's so bad it's hard to believe. When I tried to activate it, it said I had reached the maximum activations. I have 3 paid licenses of this & 3 PCs. So I sent their support an email but haven't heard back yet.
3) Other software that requires activation came thru with no issues -- UltraEdit, UltraCompare, GoodSync, RoboForm, Adobe Acrobat Pro, Office 2013, ExamDiff Pro, SecureCRT. In all cases but Acrobat (where I'm still on 10.1.13), I'm running the latest releases as of 2015-01-24, the day I upgraded.
4) Macrium Reflect v.5.3.7256 (i use the paid version) requires activation, & it went thru the activation process again but it worked. But a backup attempt failed, so I have to look into that.
5) Boxcryptor 2.0.437.408 didn't work -- it failed to create the virtual drive. I was able to change some advanced settings within Boxcryptor to resolve this.
performance-wise, the PC seems a bit faster than it did under Win7. IE loads noticeably faster. For whatever reason, it had gotten where IE took about 5-6 seconds to load under Win7 and now it's about one second.