Upgrade Windows 7 to Windows 10 ?

Deleted member 77746 · 7 Feb 2020 at 13:57

Pringle W said:
No issue with space on other hard drives with 3Tb hanging about, just the 250Gb SSD that's running out of space!

How you manage to use 250gb on a primary os, somethings wrong with your data solutions.

Derek W · 7 Feb 2020 at 19:28

mrbell1984 said:
How you manage to use 250gb on a primary os, somethings wrong with your data solutions.

I think there must be. I've got a few intensive apps, autocad, lightroom, photoshop etc but I've just seen I've got some stuff that i installed to test out but then not deleted

might have to work through my hard drive as well

Deleted member 77746 · 7 Feb 2020 at 19:37

Pringle W said:
I think there must be. I've got a few intensive apps, autocad, lightroom, photoshop etc but I've just seen I've got some stuff that i installed to test out but then not deleted might have to work through my hard drive as well

I would be tempted to download treesize or something to see what's eating up your drive.

Derek W · 7 Feb 2020 at 20:13

mrbell1984 said:
I would be tempted to download treesize or something to see what's eating up your drive.

Main offenders on that list are :

Program Files - Steam - 43Gb Wolfenstein New Order texture files :confused:

Windows - winsxs (dunno what this is) and System32 - 7gb driverstore (dunno what this is either)

Users - Data files for Adobe Premier Elements. 17gb which can be deleted easily.

Pagefile.sys (cant be altered if i remember correctly or it will mess the system up?)
hiberfil.sys presumably this is the hibernation file for quick start up so can be disabled / cleaned?

Deleted member 77746 · 7 Feb 2020 at 20:18

Program Files - Steam - 43Gb Wolfenstein New Order texture files :confused:

- delete all games I bet you don't play on them all.

Windows - winsxs (dunno what this is) and System32 - 7gb driverstore (dunno what this is either) - is windows rollback/update files. You can get rid of them no problem, keep driverstore.

Users - Data files for Adobe Premier Elements. 17gb which can be deleted easily. - delete

You also have a 11.9gb hiberfil file. Command from cmd is "powercfg -h off" - This is just a hibernation file and you can delete that too but reboot after.

Derek W · 8 Feb 2020 at 09:56

mrbell1984 said:
Program Files - Steam - 43Gb Wolfenstein New Order texture files - delete all games I bet you don't play on them all. - not played New Order yet! Only really play CS:GO at the moment. Did the one player Old Blood but got a couple of others installed although i did shift my Steam stuff to another HD so wasn't sure why this was still on the C drive?

Windows - winsxs (dunno what this is) and System32 - 7gb driverstore (dunno what this is either) - is windows rollback/update files. You can get rid of them no problem, keep driverstore. will give this a go

Users - Data files for Adobe Premier Elements. 17gb which can be deleted easily. - delete. done

You also have a 11.9gb hiberfil file. Command from cmd is "powercfg -h off" - This is just a hibernation file and you can delete that too but reboot after. done

got just over 50gb now!

Deleted member 77746 · 8 Feb 2020 at 10:07

Pringle W said:
got just over 50gb now!

No excuses to upgrade now is there? On another note why haven't you upgraded all ready?

Derek W · 8 Feb 2020 at 10:32

mrbell1984 said:
No excuses to upgrade now is there? On another note why haven't you upgraded all ready?

I did upgrade when it was first on offer, disliked the interface completely and rolled back to Windows 7. There may have been a time when some of my apps didn't work with Windows 10 but I'm assuming they've either been resolved or some apps still may not work. More concerned with my photography related stuff than the others.

Drizmod · 8 Feb 2020 at 16:16

Pringle W said:
I did upgrade when it was first on offer, disliked the interface completely and rolled back to Windows 7. There may have been a time when some of my apps didn't work with Windows 10 but I'm assuming they've either been resolved or some apps still may not work. More concerned with my photography related stuff than the others.

I installed Classicshell to make the start button menus just like Windows 7. You can also use a script like 'windows10debloater' to get rid of a lot of bloat as well as disable all telemetry.

Derek W · 12 Feb 2020 at 21:10

Cheers for the help @mrbell1984 @wolfie138 got myself upgraded tonight. Noticed a couple of errors came up with bits of software including Microsoft security essentials not being compatible :mad:

so I need to replace that.

@Drizmod I'll check those custom script things out in due course as well :cool:

Deleted member 77746 · 12 Feb 2020 at 21:14

Microsoft Security Essentials? lol..... ya don't need to replace it just enable the one built into windows 10 which is called Windows Security.

Derek W · 12 Feb 2020 at 21:42

I'll do that then

flea.rider · 12 Feb 2020 at 21:46

I just got a key off ebay ..well 3 worked fine .. £12

Derek W · 12 Feb 2020 at 23:21

Clicked on a nice windows update to make sure everything is ok. Endless reboot now :mad:

will sort that out tomorrow then!

wolfie138 · 13 Feb 2020 at 07:32

if you have specific issues, i'd recommend tenforums.com as your first stop.

Derek W · 13 Feb 2020 at 07:47

I had to do a system restore to get windows booting again. It seemed to happens just after the first windows update that i did last night. I'm guessing it will do it again when i do a system update again. I'm sure it was on that forum that i got the guide on for restoring things. The hard reset 3 times didn't work so went onto the system restore route.

Drizmod · 13 Feb 2020 at 11:09

To avoid most of the updates you need to download 1909 iso which is the latest ones already integrated.
I use the tutorial in the below site for Chrome browser that enabled me to download 1909 iso from Microsoft site

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...nload-the-windows-10-1909-iso-from-microsoft/

Derek W · 13 Feb 2020 at 18:07

Drizmod said:
To avoid most of the updates you need to download 1909 iso which is the latest ones already integrated.
I use the tutorial in the below site for Chrome browser that enabled me to download 1909 iso from Microsoft site

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...nload-the-windows-10-1909-iso-from-microsoft/

I just checked on system info and it says I'm on version 1909. I'll create another system restore point as I've fiddled about with a couple of things since i last restored it and try updating again to see if it happens again.

flea.rider · 13 Feb 2020 at 20:31

cumulative win 10 update have a search .. get them all loaded together .. or you will have probs ..

Derek W · 13 Feb 2020 at 20:52

Did the update and got this lot coming in.

Then this happened. However, the accumulative update installed pending restart and it was the intel HD graphics 4000 that was downloading when it restarted. I do have a NVIDIA geforce GTX570 installed and doing a little research it does appear to be the onboard intel graphics that is causing the issue.