(Still) thinking of buying a new PC

[Technical Ben]

I wouldn't have thought so because it's not compatible with Windows 8.x either: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh925570%28v=vs.110%29.aspx

What also intrigues me is how you managed to install an old Windows service pack on top of Windows 10. I would have said the likelihood of achieving that was on a par with finding an honest politician

It was .net service pack, not windows 7 service pack.

[stevenrw]

I know this is an old thread now, I was just browsing the forums and came across the recent addition.
I just have this to bung in...
Why not make a dual boot? Easily done. Same deal, your SSD will/would have partitions containing W7 and W10 and the conventional drive will be visible from either OS.
You just choose whichever operating system you want at boot.
I have done it on one of my desktops and it works fine. In fact the SSD is only 256GB and has plenty of room for 2 OSs and programs.

[Simon]

Interesting thought, Steven.  I've not got around to ordering the new PC yet, as I'm waiting until I have more time - a) to be in for the delivery, and b) to set it all up.  As you may have read above, I have now discovered that the one program I was concerned about has installed on my Win 10 laptop, so there should be no reason why it wouldn't work on the new machine.

[Technical Ben]

I'm still living on hand me downs. At the rate of a 50% increase in processing power ever 3 years... I'll catch up with you some time after I'm pushing daises!

I'm playing with a handme down system right now that is marginally better than my current one. Only really to test running Linux as an alternative to Win10. It's ok, seems to run well, but one or two things are "off". Such as the rendering quality of the GUI, system/settings panels usability or features and of cause, the software I miss from Win7.

So I may just have to stay on 7 till the end of time.