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Windows 10 is out. I say you should upgrade, just not necessarily right now.

Dave Farquhar Uncategorized July 29, 2015July 25, 2015acer, new hardware, Technical Preview, vista, Windows 10, windows 2000, windows 7, windows 8, windows 98, windows nt, Windows Vista, Windows XP

Windows 10 is out today. Of course I’ve been getting questions about whether to upgrade from Windows 7 to 10, and I’ve been seeing mixed advice on upgrading, though some of that mixed advice is regarding Microsoft history that isn’t completely relevant today.

My advice is to upgrade immediately if you’re running Windows 8 or 8.1, and to wait, perhaps six months, if you’re running Windows 7, but I still think you should do it. I’ll explain.

Dave Farquhar

David Farquhar is a computer security professional, entrepreneur, and author. He has written professionally about computers since 1991, so he was writing about retro computers when they were still new. He has been working in IT professionally since 1994 and has specialized in vulnerability management since 2013. He holds Security+ and CISSP certifications. Today he blogs five times a week, mostly about retro computers and retro gaming covering the time period from 1975 to 2000.

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Add a TCP/IP printer in Windows 10

Dave Farquhar Windows January 27, 2015November 16, 2021Click Finish, Click Next, hp, jetdirect card, laserjet, optimizing windows, Technical Preview, Universal Plug and Play, Windows 10

Sometimes you have to manually add a TCP/IP printer in Windows 10. For example, I have an older HP Laserjet 4100 with a Jetdirect network card in it that I use to print from all of my PCs over my local area network (LAN). Getting Windows 10 to print to it isn’t difficult but it’s hardly intuitive.

If you have your network printer already set up but just need to change its IP address, I covered that here. If you want to share a locally attached printer with other computers on your network, you can do that too.

Printing straight to the TCP/IP address of the printer is convenient. It means you don’t have to have another computer powered up when you want to print.

Dave Farquhar

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Why you need to be planning for Windows 10

Dave Farquhar Windows January 26, 2015January 25, 20151990s, Technical Preview, vista, Windows 10, windows 7, windows 8

A longtime friend asked me at church on Sunday about Windows 10. My answer was fairly succinct: Windows 7 has five years left in it, so we’ll probably all end up running it at some point.

Microsoft made a number of announcements last week, so here’s what you need to know about it.

Dave Farquhar

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