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Hi Radek,

glad to hear it worked out for you at the end.

Yes, "a bit of hacking around" describes it quite appropriately, I am 
afraid. Backup is essential, so that you can go back to the starting 
point, if everything else should fail.

BTW, should you plan to upgrade to the linear scanning electronics 
(Klondike Upgrade), that would come with a Win10 upgrade included (and 
possibly new computer), since it does not run on Win7. From memory, it 
increases the duty cycle in unidirectional mode from 25% to 65% (i.e. 
the percentage of the total time during which photons are collected.) 
With the same line frequency and pixel size, pixel dwell time goes up. 
For some, it may be easier to convince funders to pay for 2.6x more 
photons in the same time period (or respectively shorter acquisition 
times), rather than a windows upgrade, although it is likely to be 
several times more expensive than what Arnim mentioned as Win10 upgrade 
costs.

But I totally agree with others that fencing Win7 systems off the 
internet with a gateway computer is an efficient, fast and relatively 
inexpensive way to solve the problem in many settings. I did that once 
with a Win XP system hidden behind a NAS which had several Ethernet 
ports, one to the outside net, and one to the microscope computer. That 
worked very nicely.

Steffen

Am 22.10.2020 um 02:59 schrieb Radek Machan (Dr):
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> Dear Arnim,
>
> Steffen Dietzel for example was one of the people who bravely did the 
> upgrade by themselves and he published the procedure which addresses 
> Leica SP8:
>
> https://www.bioimaging.bmc.med.uni-muenchen.de/manuals-protocols/maintenance_protocolls/win7towin10/index.html
> >From Win7 to Win 10 LTSC - Core Facility Bioimaging - LMU 
> Munich<https://www.bioimaging.bmc.med.uni-muenchen.de/manuals-protocols/maintenance_protocolls/win7towin10/index.html>
> SP8 with compact supply unit with a HP Z640 ().SP8 MP plus compact 
> supply unit and Camera DFC365FX with a HP Z640, LASX 3.5.0.18371 
> ().SP8 WLL with a HP Z640, LASX 3.5.5.19976 ().
> www.bioimaging.bmc.med.uni-muenchen.de
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> It's a bit of hacking around. My former colleague followed the 
> procedure and got stuck. Luckily, the Leica representatives there are 
> quite flexible (not a Leica subsidiary but a third party company) and 
> their engineer helped with the upgrade, so it ended successfully.
>
> Best wishes,
> Radek
>
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> Radek MACHAN, Ph.D. (Senior Research Fellow)
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> Dear confocalmicroscopy-list,
> please allow me to reactivate this old thread because the problem 
> persists: How to update the operating systems of Leica SP8 from 
> Windows7 (end of life) to Windows10.
> The (only) solution, which was recently offered to us by Leica, is to 
> purchase a new workstation for ~9KEuro. And our team is not alone with 
> this problem as I know at least 6 other microscopes with this issue.
>
> Did this group find an alternative solution to this problem? Did 
> anybody successfully upgrade the OS on the existing hardware - without 
> breaking the system?
>
> Any input on this is highly appreciated.
> cheers, aRnim
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