I’m sure all you fellow Fusion users are getting this alert.
https://knowledge.autodesk.com/article/Fusion-Announcing-End-of-Support-for-Windows-10
looks like I’ll be mothership shopping before January 2026
What are your thoughts for upgrades or maybe even shifting softwares?
That is one thing I don’t like when companies do things like this. I used AutoCAD 2000 for several years. Eventually it got to the point it was like pulling teeth to install it on the never versions of windows.
I saw that and have been looking at buying a new computer. My Dell computer is at least 8 years old now and has been complaining of a lack of space on the partitioned portion of the drive where the operating system lives (only 5GB of space).
Some might say I could correct that space but it still is running the processor i7-4790 that has 4 cores and its release date was 2014. So I think it is time.
Right now I am considering this desktop, I actually put it in my cart yesterday:
I don’t know how well this link will work since it is Costco:
https://www.costco.com/.product.1941987.html
It has the Dell ECT1250 Tower - Intel Core Ultra 7-265F (20 cores) - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 - 32GB RAM - 1TB SSD - Windows 11 Home. It has wifi6, bluetooth 5.2 and a tool-less case. I plan to immediately add a 2T SSD drive.
I don’t KNOW computers. I just know this is better than what I have and my current one is stretched thin.
As far as moving programs: that worries me. I think I will be working on that for weeks.
I’m looking into upgrading to Windows 11 even though my Workstation class hardware isn’t ‘compatible’ (due to stupid TPM requirement). I’ve found a couple of methods that supposedly work and I’ll be trying it this Summer on my Vacation home system first.
@TomWS I was thinking the same thing with my main workstation but I have one program that I can’t move to a new computer (Wrightsoft 2022) so I’m just going to make that whole new system. Mainly cuz there’s no install available for that version. Right after I bought a lifetime license they moved to subscription based and stopped updating. It was very expensive too I think it was around 1900 dollars US
I don’t understand. This SW is on your main workstation and you don’t have an installer for it?
In that case I’d think you’d need to Upgrade to Win11, not do a new install of the OS, so that the SW can stay as-is but with a new OS.
Correct. it installed through a direct link through the company I purchased it from.
I don’t have any way of running the installer without it I don’t think.
So I can take my key code off the computer but it has to be installed back onto the exact same version.
I don’t have any way of installing the exact same version on a new system.
Maybe it might work like that but if it screws up and doesn’t then I have no recourse.
My planned ‘protection’ against that is a full system backup before I upgrade so, in case the upgrade really breaks something, I’ll just reinstall the backup, back to square one.
Unless you think it won’t run under Win11, the Upgrade path should be the best way to keep it intact (other than doing nothing).
Ouch. That is something to factor 
Yeah…Mine failed. Lost everything.
Make 2 copies, or better yet, if you upgrade, just buy a new SSD for your computer, and install Win 11 on that, then between the backup and the HDD from your old PC as a just in case.
I had one instance where I had an old HDD on an external drive dock using file explorer, and the programs on the old HDD would run from there. This was with the same OS though. I have not tried a win generation switch to see if it would still do that.
Being retired, I only use my computer for browsing, Fusion, streaming, email, … nothing very taxing for the performance of the machine so my situation is likely simplistic compared to many of you.
ASUS
Intel(R) Core™ i7-10750H CPU @ 2.60GHz 2.59 GHz
16GB Ram 3200 MHz
NVIDIA Multi GPU 8GB
Storage 954GB
I converted to Win 11 Home Edition at the end of January and had no issues. Nothing lost or affected as far as I can tell. I did have a complete backup on an external drive.
I hate windows 11 with all of my possible energy, they changed so much quality of life stuff and made things just “one more click” away, again. Like, why can’t I move the taskbar anymore? Why do I have to click another time to add a folder?
Why can’t I put windows 11 on a PC that’s been gaming HARD and does CAD effortlessly because it doesn’t have some dumb extra chip on it? Why not make a version of the OS that doesn’t exclude hardware that would otherwise function instead of obsoleting it through software? (talking about my shop laptop that I control my CFP with, I’ll have to buy a new computer when it works perfectly fine)
Well, you’ll have to take the Wayback Machine back to 1979 for answers to those questions… 
Guess this system goes forever offline… or behind 5 firewalls.
I think I might have something worth considering for our dilemma: moving applications.
I just purchased a license for this program:
Currently the Lifetime upgrade Professional program is selling for $42 US.
(Yearly subscription is normally $60 per year.)
It will allow you to move an application to another drive. When it does that, it does leave some remnants on the original C drive. I did an experiment to move Fusion 360 from C drive to E drive. I know it left some files on C because the 4.7GB size program only removed about 0.6GB of date from C drive. But the program works and maintains all your settings.
It is designed to move all data and apps to a new computer. I will be trying that next week.
Note: This is the same company, whose file called EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard that helped me find some of my wife’s data on a drive I reformatted accidently. Some of you may remember that incident. 
Well this will be my approach:
This has to be the best YouTube video I’ve seen in a LONG LONG time. Crisp, to the point, no hype, and nicely paced.
One workaround is just stop the win10 computer from updating
As far as the transferring a program from win10 to win11 that will only work if the program certifications for win11 are there, Microsoft does have a compatibility checker you can run, and fusion may run in compatibility mode in windows 11–if they still have that !
Reality is Autodesk is saying they are not going to support win10 anymore so you need to preserve your install on win10 by backing up your drive, another thing is a lot of programs use your mac address and windows configuration score to open the program so a new mother board or even drive may mess up activation–even changing to a SS drive–some brands fail quicker than a disk drive
Oh yes Tila was upset for having to share her pillow.
Tom, that is excellent!
It shows that I could upgrade but this computer has some other issues. For that reason, it is time for it to move to a new home.
Yeah, I just tried to upgrade my Ubuntu system. It was 20.04 and I wanted to get to 24.04. Can’t go directly so had to do 20.04 → 22.04 and then, supposedly 22.04 → 24.04. Well, the first part sort of went through the process and then I tried to go to 24.04. No dice, something was messed up so I was stuck on 22.04.
So I thought, what the heck, 22.04 will get me the SW support I need so I thought I’d stay there.
That was until I closed the laptop to suspend it. No go. tried this, tried that. The power management was messed up. So after a good night’s rest, I reinstalled 20.04 from my backup and I am SOOOOO HAPPY! 
