@eobox91103:
Thanks very much for the information!
Both my desktop workstation, and laptop ("Latitude" series, not a workstation but still high end), have SSD for the primary drive. I have lots of backup drives, always synched (they're so cheap these days). I'm not as concerned about losing data as I am the overall hassle, but you're giving me courage. I might try it on the laptop first.
If you do give it a try make a backup image of your drive this is so it's easy to restore if you ever want to go back also recommend them to people in case they ever run into problems it's better way to revert back then using things like system restore.
I find it's better to keep Win 7 on laptop if that is what it was built for and then try out new stuff on main system which should be less hassle anyway laptops can be lot more annoying.
Don't buy Win10 if you do give it a try or activate it you have 30 days free use only if you like it then activate or purchase a key online for like $10 it's pro version you want.
I expect you may not stick with it but it's your choice i really dislike win 10 but i have it on one of my machines due to intel on latest chipset forced people to use it.
it's also worth looking into things like open-shell to give it back more of the old style