Windows 10

okay so the update for 10547 dropped today on my PC, so I rebooted and let it run its course.

came to the login screen (after 2 hours) to be greeted to no mouse or network (or internet), managed to login an after sitting there for 15 minutes it crashed, restarted and said it was rolling me back to 10532

so after a further 20 minutes I was back where I started... waited for the download to do its thing again, and rebooted...

came to the login screen (after 2 hours) to be greeted to no mouse or network (or internet), managed to login an after sitting there for 15 minutes it crashed, restarted and said it was rolling me back to 10532...

grrrrrrrrrr wasted a day!! :mad:
 
I've not really been following so much so far. Sorry for silly questions, I'll try and read the thread and tease out answers but quickfire responses to a couple of simple bits would be most handy.

1) I have windows 7 ultimate retail, once I upgrade, my system info is stored by MS so will auto activate. However, once I upgrade motherboard or similar, how do I then get it activated? Is it a chat with MS and get a win 10 retail key or is there a more official process?

2) Hows the privacy concerns/etc looking? Is there still a big info grab or are we all using some 3rd party tools to cripple this sort of stuff?

Sorry, I appreciate they're probably rather common but there's LOTS of miss-info still around, I kinda trust replies here :)
 
Skeeter said:
OEM Windows 7 still gets the upgrade and notification.
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You need to make sure you keep hitting the updates manually for a couple of days. After enough time, once ALL updates are there the "free upgrade" one will pop up.

Managed to follow a few guides (url's long since forgotten) to push it along, got my update notification on day 3.
 
Mercutio said:
However, once I upgrade motherboard or similar, how do I then get it activated? Is it a chat with MS and get a win 10 retail key or is there a more official process?
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Grovel to MS. When that fails, buy a new license. I've seen mention of W10 deactivating due to a BIOS upgrade.
 
Quartz said:
Grovel to MS. When that fails, buy a new license. I've seen mention of W10 deactivating due to a BIOS upgrade.
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I don't think you will ever end up with a proper Windows 10 retail key out of this "free" upgrade. For Gods sake, just put your hand in your pocket and buy a proper Retail version on USB :)
 
Mercutio said:
I've not really been following so much so far. Sorry for silly questions, I'll try and read the thread and tease out answers but quickfire responses to a couple of simple bits would be most handy.

1) I have windows 7 ultimate retail, once I upgrade, my system info is stored by MS so will auto activate. However, once I upgrade motherboard or similar, how do I then get it activated? Is it a chat with MS and get a win 10 retail key or is there a more official process?
here :)
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Quartz said:
Grovel to MS. When that fails, buy a new license. I've seen mention of W10 deactivating due to a BIOS upgrade.
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The offician line is, when you chnage your mobo, you have changed your device. That device will only be entitled to an upgrade if you install an upgradable oS on it first. Officially you would install you win7, then upgrade that for free to win10 if you do it in this first coming year.
There may be other ways to achieve it, but that would be the official way.
If you actually wanted a clean install, then you would upgrade first. Format, then clean install, as you new mobo would then be registered with MS, so it would recognise the upgrade.

This is the problem people are having with MB bios upgrades, it is, for whatever reason, making the mobo seem to be a new device to the OS.
If this is corrected the activation problem will go away.
Else every single one of these people, could reinstall their os, upgrade to win10, then clean install without issue.
Just it is messy and takes longer.
 
Mercutio said:
1) I have windows 7 ultimate retail, once I upgrade, my system info is stored by MS so will auto activate. However, once I upgrade motherboard or similar, how do I then get it activated? Is it a chat with MS and get a win 10 retail key or is there a more official process?
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Just install 7, download all the updates until the windows 10 upgrade tool is installed, reserve, let it download and after installation it should be activated (or if you have a disc or an disc image with the windows 10 installation files on then you just have to install 7 and upgrade to 10.... possibly) although I can't guarantee that it will work.

And while I'm at it, I've got a question.

How long should it take for the get windows 10 app to stop moaning about a non compatible with windows 10 component (this being a graphics card which has gone from a 6600LE to a GT610 ) and go back to an all is good state to start the downloading process (or should I just manually trigger the scan process myself).

And I've had to try this again since for some unknown reason my ISP has been mucking about with their DNS servers and broke the entry for the forums which was working when I first tried.
 
Did a fresh install of windows 8.1 last week then upgraded to W10 at the weekend, everything seems fine, is a fresh install a must have W10?

Just means a couple more hours work really

Cheers
 
If you went from a fresh install of 8.1 to 10 then you should be OK.

However as you probably don't have many apps or customisations as you've come from a fresh install I would go ahead and do a clean install of Windows 10.
 
Mujja said:
If you went from a fresh install of 8.1 to 10 then you should be OK.

However as you probably don't have many apps or customisations as you've come from a fresh install I would go ahead and do a clean install of Windows 10.
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+1, It cant hurt to do a fresh install of Win 10 at this point.
 
I upgraded a Windows 8.1 machine to Windows 10 over the weekend. I then found out a driver for my Roland (Edirol) PCR-50 USB keyboard is not supported.

Roland support said:-
look at switching the advanced driver to ‘off’ as this may likely get things working for you without the need of a driver.
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Anyone able to clarify what they might mean by this?
 
NeilFawcett said:
What do you mean by this?
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When you upgrade from 8.1 to 10 it creates a folder called "Windows Old" which is your 8.1 install in case you wanted to downgrade within the 30 days.

You can delete this and save a fair amount of space if you are happy with 10. If you use the disk cleanup tool and the "Clean up system files" option and select the old windows install and the windows cache install folder then delete you will recover the space.
 
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NeilFawcett said:
Sorry to hear about the hassle... Another case of if it ain't broke... This is even more teh case with computers :mad:
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I'd set a PIN at the build stage, roast that now in favour of a username and password which appears to fix it, although I get a parameter error when install from the NAS so mapped the drive via IP seems to fix that also

The joys......
 
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