Hi
It is almost six years since I last asked the above question of the forum, the excellent advice I was given then was taken, and I am happy to say that I have enjoyed almost six seamless years from my PC. Sadly as Windows 7 is about to lose its support I have decided to jump ship to Windows 10.
To give some idea of what I use my PC for so that you can scrutinize my amateur efforts of attempting to put a working PC together that will future proof me for another six or more years, as this may be my last throw of the dice, given my age!
My main use is maintaining a very large Access Database of information that is related to my long standing interest in the Great War period of our nations history, I also have many media historical media files that are of historical interest to me and I also hold a very large collection of photographic images, I use Adobe Photoshop CS6 to work on these. And finally my database is shared in on a website in the public domain and as the sole administrator, I visit it once a month to upload text and images to it.
I am also taking up an annual subscription to MS Office 365 to obtain the up to date Office Suite that includes Access, as my current version of MS Office Professional is the 2007 edition and I have concerns that this may clash with Windows 10. If I have any misgivings it is that there seems not to be the option of two DVD writer readers available now, as I have a permanent DVD in one CD/DVD Reader that contains a large database, and as such should I require to use a writer to copy information to a CD/DVD I can do this at present having the two reader/writers.
I am attaching the spec as copied to this missive and look forward to any advice that you may be able to offer me. In creating the spec I may have over engineered it, this is purely due to my ignorance and thinking bigger is better.
Thanking you in anticipation, regards, Mike
It is almost six years since I last asked the above question of the forum, the excellent advice I was given then was taken, and I am happy to say that I have enjoyed almost six seamless years from my PC. Sadly as Windows 7 is about to lose its support I have decided to jump ship to Windows 10.
To give some idea of what I use my PC for so that you can scrutinize my amateur efforts of attempting to put a working PC together that will future proof me for another six or more years, as this may be my last throw of the dice, given my age!
My main use is maintaining a very large Access Database of information that is related to my long standing interest in the Great War period of our nations history, I also have many media historical media files that are of historical interest to me and I also hold a very large collection of photographic images, I use Adobe Photoshop CS6 to work on these. And finally my database is shared in on a website in the public domain and as the sole administrator, I visit it once a month to upload text and images to it.
I am also taking up an annual subscription to MS Office 365 to obtain the up to date Office Suite that includes Access, as my current version of MS Office Professional is the 2007 edition and I have concerns that this may clash with Windows 10. If I have any misgivings it is that there seems not to be the option of two DVD writer readers available now, as I have a permanent DVD in one CD/DVD Reader that contains a large database, and as such should I require to use a writer to copy information to a CD/DVD I can do this at present having the two reader/writers.
I am attaching the spec as copied to this missive and look forward to any advice that you may be able to offer me. In creating the spec I may have over engineered it, this is purely due to my ignorance and thinking bigger is better.
Thanking you in anticipation, regards, Mike
