11-16-2020, 08:29 PM
Well done @xdude. Looks like Windows 10 Enterprise is a good way to go. 
I'm back with Windows 7 with my old Lenovo Thinkpad X201 laptop. I give Microsoft thumbs up for making the upgrade so easy. However once the updates started to rain down on my poor laptop, it started slowing down, and with the last major package of updates it could hardly move. To top it off, the laptop screen went on dim. When I Googled the screen issue, looks like this is a major issue with many laptops in that there is something in Windows 10 that triggered sleep mode in the laptop. There are many many work arounds available, going a bit deeper into advanced settings or doing this via command line. I tried it once, but the laptop just moved too slow. Fortunately I had an LG Monitor connected to the laptop and that was working perfectly. It was only the laptop screen that went on dim.
Any way, I then decided to end the test. It was much easier to downgrade to Windows 7 as the other way round, not that it was difficult, but I'm talking time wise now. And there were no leftovers from Windows 10. The system was as it was before I upgraded to Windows 10. First thing I noticed of course was the laptop screen was working again. So the theory that it is Windows 10 causing the dimming of the screen is true. What is curious to me is the last package of updates that brought my mobile to its knees and caused its screen to dim were security updates. There was also one update for Framework. But of course one can't see what the individual security updates were. So I can't pinpoint to exactly which update caused the screen to go on dim. What I do know is that it took ages for the updates to be installed and configured during the period of time I had to wait. Like I was already wondering then whether my laptop is going to make it. Then when I was Googling the screen dimming issue I realized I had lost complete trust in the updates for very old hardware. Preferably one should use Windows 10 with a mother board that has been specifically created for Windows 10 - 2009 is definitely too old.
@xdude I'm very curious now about how the updates are working with Windows 10 Enterprise. Are they listed more individually instead of as a package like in Windows 10 Professional? what effect are the updates having on your hardware @xdude? Like everything else for Windows 10 Professional worked just fine and most were an improvement over Windows 7. Just the updates were completely out of my control and out of control period. If I could give advice to Microsoft I'd like to see a Minimal version of Updates for upgraded Windows 7 computers. But seeing that Microsoft is just as greedy as Apple in wanting users to upgrade their hardware, I can't help but wonder whether the update incompatibility has something to do with a policy of built-in obsolescence. Make the updates as hard to digest as possible so users will go out and buy new computers or laptops. Microsoft must be on a roll now.
So for now my primary desktop is staying on Windows 7. My next test on my Thinkpad X201 will be with Windows 10 Enterprise. Just to see how the updates work. I still have a bootable USB with Windows 10 Enterprise on it. I just need to figure out how the key will work before I tackle the new test.
I'm back with Windows 7 with my old Lenovo Thinkpad X201 laptop. I give Microsoft thumbs up for making the upgrade so easy. However once the updates started to rain down on my poor laptop, it started slowing down, and with the last major package of updates it could hardly move. To top it off, the laptop screen went on dim. When I Googled the screen issue, looks like this is a major issue with many laptops in that there is something in Windows 10 that triggered sleep mode in the laptop. There are many many work arounds available, going a bit deeper into advanced settings or doing this via command line. I tried it once, but the laptop just moved too slow. Fortunately I had an LG Monitor connected to the laptop and that was working perfectly. It was only the laptop screen that went on dim.
Any way, I then decided to end the test. It was much easier to downgrade to Windows 7 as the other way round, not that it was difficult, but I'm talking time wise now. And there were no leftovers from Windows 10. The system was as it was before I upgraded to Windows 10. First thing I noticed of course was the laptop screen was working again. So the theory that it is Windows 10 causing the dimming of the screen is true. What is curious to me is the last package of updates that brought my mobile to its knees and caused its screen to dim were security updates. There was also one update for Framework. But of course one can't see what the individual security updates were. So I can't pinpoint to exactly which update caused the screen to go on dim. What I do know is that it took ages for the updates to be installed and configured during the period of time I had to wait. Like I was already wondering then whether my laptop is going to make it. Then when I was Googling the screen dimming issue I realized I had lost complete trust in the updates for very old hardware. Preferably one should use Windows 10 with a mother board that has been specifically created for Windows 10 - 2009 is definitely too old.
@xdude I'm very curious now about how the updates are working with Windows 10 Enterprise. Are they listed more individually instead of as a package like in Windows 10 Professional? what effect are the updates having on your hardware @xdude? Like everything else for Windows 10 Professional worked just fine and most were an improvement over Windows 7. Just the updates were completely out of my control and out of control period. If I could give advice to Microsoft I'd like to see a Minimal version of Updates for upgraded Windows 7 computers. But seeing that Microsoft is just as greedy as Apple in wanting users to upgrade their hardware, I can't help but wonder whether the update incompatibility has something to do with a policy of built-in obsolescence. Make the updates as hard to digest as possible so users will go out and buy new computers or laptops. Microsoft must be on a roll now.
So for now my primary desktop is staying on Windows 7. My next test on my Thinkpad X201 will be with Windows 10 Enterprise. Just to see how the updates work. I still have a bootable USB with Windows 10 Enterprise on it. I just need to figure out how the key will work before I tackle the new test.