Okay, so it turns out I'm not that bright.
After years of using Vista64 i decided I'd make the move to W10 and, according to the specs and all I'd read my system could handle it. So I bought a copy of the new OS, did a backup of my C drive just in case and went ahead with the installation.
As it turns out my system - in particular my motherboard - cant handle it. My audio is full of crackling and pops and as I work in sound recording this cannot stand. SO! I'm going back to Vista where i didnt have this issue - at least till i can afford to upgrade the whole system.
MY QUESTION - W10 saved my Vista setup as under the windows.old moniker. Can i revert to my last setup using that? What if I had that and a full backup of that drive? OR do i have to do a clean install?
PLUS - is it possible to retrieve my Vista product code from somewhere in my system? I still have my installation disk but i cant, for the life of me, find the serial. I can't find NTUSER.DAT anywhere in the windows.old folder.
Many thanks!
After years of using Vista64 i decided I'd make the move to W10 and, according to the specs and all I'd read my system could handle it. So I bought a copy of the new OS, did a backup of my C drive just in case and went ahead with the installation.
As it turns out my system - in particular my motherboard - cant handle it. My audio is full of crackling and pops and as I work in sound recording this cannot stand. SO! I'm going back to Vista where i didnt have this issue - at least till i can afford to upgrade the whole system.
MY QUESTION - W10 saved my Vista setup as under the windows.old moniker. Can i revert to my last setup using that? What if I had that and a full backup of that drive? OR do i have to do a clean install?
PLUS - is it possible to retrieve my Vista product code from somewhere in my system? I still have my installation disk but i cant, for the life of me, find the serial. I can't find NTUSER.DAT anywhere in the windows.old folder.
Many thanks!
My Computer
System One
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- CPU
- Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9300 @ 2.50GHz, 2
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte, EP43-DS3L
- Memory
- 4.00 GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT
- Sound Card
- Presonus Firepod