Have you had problems after installation of older software? We purchased a new computer recently, and it worked fine for 12 days. Then it lost WI-FI connectivity. A Best Buy "Geek" tried to fix it, and computer died! We got our money back, but we're doing some research before buying another one. I installed QUICKEN 2010,and wondered if that caused a problem. The program worked fine the one time I used it.

No, Quicken can't cause a failure with your WiFi adapter. My guess is that the motherboard was defective since the system eventually died. Which tends to happen very early on with new PC hardware. Once you get over the initial break in, it generally works fine until it dies of old age. Or, more likely from being out of date.

I've been running Win 10 for over a year now and haven't encountered any software that wouldn't install and run correctly. Of course some could exist but my experience has been very positive regarding software compatibility.

I am forced to stay on Win8.1 (which is fine with me) because of a compatibility issue with MS Money. It won't run on Win10 and Microsoft has sunset Money.

Stop wasting time with dead programs , use Mint .

8.1 Van wrote:Stop wasting time with dead programs , use Mint .Not everyone wants to hand over all their financial information to a cloud provider.

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strollin
Explorer
Nov 23, 2015
Mlts22's suggestion to use VM software is good but is somewhat misleading in that whether you use free VM software such as VirtualBox or VMWarePlayer or whether you use the paid version of VMWare Workstation, in order to create a VM, you need an OS with Product Key to install. The VM software by itself is useless without an operating system to install.
mlts22
Explorer
Nov 23, 2015
One idea you can do is use some virtualization software (VirtualBox is free, but I pay the C-notes for VMWare Workstation because it has a lot more features, and is the de facto standard), and put your older applications in a virtual machine.

The advantage of doing this is that when you upgrade hardware, you just copy the VM's files from the old box to the new box... the older application and its environment never has to be modified, and is secure from hack attempts because the VM software can be configured to "hide" the VM from the outside world using NAT (network address translation.) Another advantage is that one can use snapshots and back those up.

A small business I help out has a very creaky old version of some specialty software which will not run on anything newer than XP. Since the software never touches the Web, and only accesses a shared directory, it sits in a virtual machine configured with no network adapters, and has been moved from physical machine to machine for a number of years now. So far, so good. Periodic scans of the VM's virtual drive files have shown it to be clean of any nasties.
lovemountains
Explorer
Nov 18, 2015
I appreciate those who responded to my question. Thanks!
ewarnerusa
Nomad
Nov 18, 2015
BobKrogstie wrote:
ewarnerusa wrote:
BobKrogstie wrote:
I am forced to stay on Win8.1 (which is fine with me) because of a compatibility issue with MS Money. It won't run on Win10 and Microsoft has sunset Money.

MS Money runs fine on my windows 10 machine. I updated to Win10 from Windows 8.1.

What version are you running? I'm running Money Plus Deluxe cira 2007 - 2008 version 17.0.120.3817.

Mine says version 17.0.150.3817
Shadow_Catcher
Explorer
Nov 18, 2015
Some programs can be forced to work in compatibility mode.
sherlock62
Explorer
Nov 17, 2015
8.1 Van wrote:
Stop wasting time with dead programs , use Mint .

Nonsensical comment at best!
strollin
Explorer
Nov 17, 2015
Dave&Jeanette wrote:
If you are happy with Win 7 or 8 and there isn't some new feature in Win 10 that you need then there is no need to upgrade.
Upgrading just for the sake of having the newest operating system makes no sense.

This is my take as well. I have a number of Win 7 and Win 8 machines that I will not be upgrading.
BobKrogstie
Explorer
Nov 17, 2015
ewarnerusa wrote:
BobKrogstie wrote:
I am forced to stay on Win8.1 (which is fine with me) because of a compatibility issue with MS Money. It won't run on Win10 and Microsoft has sunset Money.

MS Money runs fine on my windows 10 machine. I updated to Win10 from Windows 8.1.

What version are you running? I'm running Money Plus Deluxe cira 2007 - 2008 version 17.0.120.3817.
Dave_Jeanette
Explorer
Nov 17, 2015
If you are happy with Win 7 or 8 and there isn't some new feature in Win 10 that you need then there is no need to upgrade.
Upgrading just for the sake of having the newest operating system makes no sense.
ewarnerusa
Nomad
Nov 17, 2015
BobKrogstie wrote:
I am forced to stay on Win8.1 (which is fine with me) because of a compatibility issue with MS Money. It won't run on Win10 and Microsoft has sunset Money.

MS Money runs fine on my windows 10 machine. I updated to Win10 from Windows 8.1.