* Posts by Mr rhs

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Run Windows 10 on your existing PC you say, Microsoft? Hmmm.

Mr rhs

My Windows 10 experience so far

My PC is Lenovo Z570. Intel I5, 2.5ghz, 8gig of ram, nothing special. I dual and triple boot all the time. Main operating system (2yrs) is FreeBSD with KDE desktop. I know, the purists don't like that but hey it is BOMB proof and does not morph itself without your permission. I Vboxed Win10 last week using Win7 as host, and save for the manual install of "guest additions" it came out perfect and by that I mean fully accelerated capable of 3d rendering right out of the gate. For those of you who do not virtualize OS's that is not and easy thing to do. So that got my attention. I have and old Microtek scanner that is so old Microtek does not support it. So my ultimate test for any OS is to install this scanner. Drag the files out of the shared folder to the desktop, no problem. Run installer as administrator no problem. No driver in hardware tree. Had to turn off MS digital driver signing thingy. That was slightly cryptic and any casual user would definitely have a problem with that. Install (vista 64 bit driver) no problem. Run scanner and bingo it works like a charm. To top it off since this OS runs seamlessly I went back to Win7 and scanned the same page, no problem. A perfect Vbox program in my opinion.