Ever since the Insider program began in October 2014, I've been installing all the preview builds on a 6-year-old Pentium laptop with 2GB RAM, on a dual-boot configuration with Windows 8.1 Pro on the other partition. It's been a real trooper, successfully
installing every build right up to 16199. However, with each new build, it has been getting slower and slower. The new My People/People Bar never worked properly, and Photos with Story Remix won't export a video.
Therefore, I'm considering retiring it from the Insider program and swapping it with a newer (by two years) Pentium laptop with 4GB RAM that's currently up to date with a fully-activated Windows 10 Home Creators Update Build 15063.332, and whose main purpose
is being plugged into my stereo system to play my music videos and iHeartRadio. The older one can easily do that instead.
Since I've never actually done it from a running "retail" Windows 10 build, I'm assuming I can just go to Settings>Insider Program and click Get Started. My preference is to update to the latest Insider build rather than performing a clean install. That
way I can also test if existing software still works. My first question, since that PC is running Windows 10 Home, will it get the Home version of Insider builds? The old one currently gets Pro. I'm not sure if that would really matter to me, though. And
I would like to keep pace in the Fast Ring.
As for the older laptop, once I saw the newer one could install a Preview build ok, I'd backup any files I needed, remove the Preview partition, delete that former partition's Computer Name from my MSA, and give the HDD space back to the Windows 8.1 partition.
Is there anything I'm not thinking of, or that I need to be aware of or watch out for?
Thanks!