Windows Upgrade
Simon Brown • January 5, 2020
Free upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10 is still available!
Yesterday I powered on a small ATOM 330 server which was last started five years ago. Well, up came Windows 7 Professional and of course the normal zillions of updates appeared. Anyway, I wondered whether the now officially expired free update from Windows 7 to Windows 10 was still available. Google brought me to this link on www.zdnet.com.
 
  
In https://www.zdnet.com/article/heres-how-you-can-still-get-a-free-windows-10-upgrade/ 
the suggestion is to  go to the Download Windows 10 webpage 
which I did. then I clicked the Download too now button. Thereafter I just followed my nose and two hours later my little server was proudly running a licenced version of Windows 10.
So the free upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10 is till available!
Toodles

November 1st, 2025                                                                                                            Analyser                                                                   Analyser tag window change, as suggested by Jim.                                                           Analyser tags now saved and restored correctly.                                                           Analyser font size now supports small, medium and large.                                                           Analyser loads saved projects faster.                                                           Saving project now much faster and uses less memory.                                                           More display lines available if you have enough RAM:                                                           Less than 16GB then 50,000 lines.                                                           16GB to 32GB then 100,000 lines.                                                           32GB or more then 250,000 lines.                                                           Fixed minor font issue with definition window.                                                           Fixed issue scrolling when more than 32768 lines in display.                                                                                                                        Data File Playback                                                                   Selecting a playback folder now creates the list of files much faster.                                                                                                                        Emulation                                                                   Added a diagnostic check for the use of emulators. This code only works on W10 and above, so I dynamically load                                                           IsWow64Process2                                                           from                                                           kernel32                                              which avoids issues on older versions of Windows.                                                                                                            In the logfile you see something like this:                                                                                                            05:23:48.185: Vendor ....: GenuineIntel                                                      05:23:48.185: Brand .....: Intel(R) Core(TM) Ultra 7 265K                                                      05:23:48.185: -                                                      05:23:48.185: x86 Emulation:                                                      05:23:48.185: Process .......: 0x0000, "Not emulated"                                                      05:23:48.185: Architecture ..: 0x8664, "AMD64"                                                      05:23:48.185: -                                                                                                            Favourites                                                                   Updated the default 60m bandwidth.                                                           Changed Broadcast :: VHF CCIR title to Band II.                                                           Groups now have user-selectable files.                                                           Default definitions renames to main.                                                                         Changed the ribbon bar,                                                                Selection                                                                entry to                                                                Options                                                  (see image below). The dropdown options have been replaced with a single window, allowing more room for text.                                                                                                                        Locked Receivers                                                                   If the program is stopped or a favourite created when a receiver is locked, this caused problems with the receiver being locked but no indication. With this kit receiver lock state is not applied in a favourite definition.                                                                                                                        Logfile                                                                   Automatically save the logfile when closing, really added so I can check program responding correctly to Shutdown and Restart.                                                                        Old logfiles are purged after the program has been running for one minute.                                                                                                                        Logging                                                                   Added logbook FA option as below, FA is the command to read/write RX1.                                                                                                                        Narrow FM                                                                   Added 150Hz CTCSS squelch tone.                                                           De-emphasis is now optional, selected from: Ribbon bar, Receive, Mode..., Narrow FM.                                                                              Persistent Display                                                                   Got a crash inside the persistent display logic, my sanity checks weren't good enough so have improved this.                                                                                                                        Remote Server                                                                   After connecting to a remote server, the input fields can now be edited to change connection parameters.                                                                                                                        Ribbon Bar                                                                   View panel tidied up.                                                                                                                        Signal Meter (SMeter)                                                                   Added more presets for the Signal meter, Ribbon bar, View, Spectrum, Signal Meter.                                                                                                                        Spectran ECO                                                                   Changed SPECTRAN path order to pick up DLLs from the SDK folder rather than the main folder.                                                                                                                        Status Bar                                                                   GPU, Audio entries on status bar now optional, selected from Program Options, Performance, CPU Memory.                                                                                                                        System Shutdown / Restart                                                                   If SDR Console is running when the system shuts down or restarts then SDR Console closes gracefully. What happens - five seconds after SDR Console receives the SHUTDOWN message a timer calls the OnClose() processing, so you have five seconds to about the shutdown / restart.                                                                                                                        Text Size                                                                   Fonts now scale correctly when a non-default Accessibility > Text Size is selected (see image).
 

SDR Television                                                                                                                         Improved phase detection at the start of each frame (SOF, PLS) which in turn improves sensitivity.                                                           Added 2,000 ksps receive, confirmed as working with GB3NQ.                                                                         Sensitivity still not as good as a                                                  Serit 4334 NIM                                                   as used in the MiniTioune receiver, what's missing is synchronisation timing, I will be using Gardner timing error detection (TED). This will be added in Q1, 2026 when this project is extended for terrestrial use.                                                                                                                                     Downloads are at the bottom of this page.
 

SDR Television                                                                                                                         Found and fixed an unused massive memory allocation (up to 10GB), may have caused systems to freeze.                                                           Fixed fatal bug in matched filter array allocation.                                                           Changed the default transmit bandpass shaping filter roll-off to 0.20 in transmit and receive. Please look at the images below and apply the change.                                                                                                                        SDR Pluto                                                                                                                         Now show the AGC gain and RSSI.                                                           Added Default link to select the recommended gain - Fast Attack, 0dB visual.                                                                                                                        Known Problems                                                                                                                         Add support for tracking transmissions with (?) non-standard PCR data, example is G8GKQ.                                                           Using Pluto & variants, sensitivity is not as good as a NIM (hardware tuner). Will compare with SPECTRAN ECO in a week or so.
 







