I did some “maintenance” on my “office” computer. I cleaned out old files that were found using the Windows “Disk Clean up” utility. Disk De-frag is automatic at least on my WIN7 as the user doesn’t really have to make a decision. A human should interface with the clean up. You may not want to discard some of the old files it finds. So it doesn’t run automagically <sic>.
In fact if the user doesn’t know its there it will never get used. My 500GB “C:” drive was getting rather full so I decided to gain a little more head room on that drive by clearing out the dead wood. I am also getting a bit concerned about the drive as it is giving out little “grunts” now and then. It didn’t always do that. It may be getting close to replacement time.
The C drive is a seven year old SATA. Two other drives are 10 years old SATAs and I just added a 1TB SATA drive. The original computer was built ten years ago but was killed by a home lightning strike in 2009. See: http://ramblindan.org/?p=1101 Only the case and hardware, the D & E drives which were originally running together in RAID 0, and the video card remain from the first build. Unfortunately that makes the video card over ten years old.
The video was state of the art in it’s day but a whole lot has happened with video since then. More than I thought, as this old card has been serving me very well (I thought).
I keep getting the upgrade to WIN10 banner popping up on my screen. So a couple of days ago I finally clicked on it. I wanted to see what the offer was. It ran a “test” on my present hardware to check for compatibility with WIN10.
When it finished, it announced my computer video was not compatible with WIN10 and an update could not be made. It told me to check with the manufacturer of the card as there are no drivers for WIN10. See lead picture.
Yep, the test was correct. My now less than state of the art card Nvidia GeForce 7800GT was declared moved to “Legacy Status” by Nvidia. No Win10 updates available and all future drivers will not support the card at all. I loaded the latest available driver (309.8) which says it is good through WIN8 but the WIN10 test flunked it again.
So my earlier thought that my older hardware was not compatible with win10 has been borne out as true. I am pleased to see that Microsoft is doing their homework and checking systems.
I have a new video card on order. I am hoping it will like my 7 year old mother board…