Windows 10 FAQ

Danny091 · 30 Jul 2015 at 14:54

Your not ment to boot from it.. Just run it inside windows and update.. Once windows reboots remove the disk or it will boot from it (you dont need it the rest of the way)

Should not ask you for a product key this way.

Danny091 · 30 Jul 2015 at 14:57

Yeh you need to pull it out when it reboots or it will boot from it though. (Rather than continuing from where it was)

Danny091 · 30 Jul 2015 at 15:40

You could try restarting a few times.. @gravy had that key blocked problem 8 restarts later and it cleared. But it might not as it might have locked to your first machine. Try it and let us know? haha

Danny091 · 30 Jul 2015 at 15:55

hmm interesting, Wonder if it will deactivate your laptop if it does activate. Please let us know so i can put it in the faq

Danny091 · 30 Jul 2015 at 15:56

memyselfandi said:
Ok, I have windows 8.1 box which started as windows 7 retail, had a cheap upgrade from MS to 8 and the offer for media center which had another product key.

Trying to update from the iso seems to prompt for a key with no option to skip ... and the keys I have don't seem to work (I did previous reserve the upgrade n the system and am just trying to shirtcut it ...

Make sure its not booting from the ISO (if you put it on a USB or Disk) when the computer restarts. When it restarts pull them out you dont need them after that. Otherwise it will boot from them and start a different process rather than continuing what it was doing. This way you should not need a product key.

Danny091 · 30 Jul 2015 at 16:08

Strange, what version of windows are you running now including if its pro, home ext and what ISO did you download?

Danny091 · 30 Jul 2015 at 18:56

No idea, its based on a queue if your going to wait.

Otherwise just go the ISO route if you wanted to do it now.

Danny091 · 30 Jul 2015 at 19:50

mrbell1984 said:
@Danny091 - This is the Mega link... ISO's are uploading now so if you can add this too the FAQ would be great.

https://mega.co.nz/#F!xZUjSIQA!Yno7Sk6GJU15lqLjkTIWaQ (Mega Link)

Will do, Thanks very much!

Danny091 · 30 Jul 2015 at 20:09

no upgrade first then once activated you can do clean

Danny091 · 30 Jul 2015 at 21:06

Once its activated once you can do whatever you like regarding complete re installs. I personally only leave one drive connected when installing the operating system to ensure that the boot records and everything else can only go on that drive

Danny091 · 30 Jul 2015 at 21:42

Cool ive added that info to the front page

If you find out how to pick your own picture please let me know so i can add it too.

Danny091 · 30 Jul 2015 at 23:17

Right click your C drive > properties > disk cleanup > click the clean system files > Tick all old installs and ok it.

Danny091 · 31 Jul 2015 at 10:40

@kool not sure if serious? It turns it back to windows 8 start.

Danny091 · 31 Jul 2015 at 11:30

sheldore said:
I've tried just about everything and cannot get Cortana to work, All I get is this setting restricted due to your region. I live in the UK have every think that I can think of set to he UK but it still doesn't work, installed all the packs I can find relating to the UK. Even tried setting to the USA but nothing, so any help greatly appreciated.

Can you provide screenshots of;

why she wont activate

Should look like this;

Danny091 · 31 Jul 2015 at 16:44

Vampyre said:
Quick question guys, my laptop has already upgraded but my main machine has a 128Gb SSD so I have symlinked C:\Users to D:\Users on my storage drive so that I have space for all my Music, Photos etc. Is this going to stop the upgrade and if so what do I do about it?

It should be fine. You might have to do the link again after upgrading. Many people have their files on another drive.

Another way to disable lock screen:

Danny091 · 31 Jul 2015 at 16:59

Search for "Group Policy"

Danny091 · 31 Jul 2015 at 17:04

Danny091 · 31 Jul 2015 at 17:19

Try going to control panel then using the search bar for group policy

Danny091 · 31 Jul 2015 at 17:25

koolpc said:
Nothing Danny

Go to desktop create new folder name it

GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

Open folder its under administrative tasks at the top.

ED209 said:
the mega link for W10 pro 64 bit doesn't work, it downloads to 99% then states a decryption error and then if you re start the download it starts over and displays the same error.

didn't try the other 3 links, I was using google chrome

Hmm ill check it now

Danny091 · 31 Jul 2015 at 17:38

ED209 said:
ty Danny

the download tool isn't working for me otherwise I would do that, took 10 hours to download the ISO then at the end it disappeared and no iso saved, so annoying!

they worked fine when I was running W7 lol 32 bit version of the tool errors and its a empty box with no message in it

Its working fine for me, just finished downloading and its checksum matches the one i uploaded.

Can you try a different browser or something like that. Failing that i will upload them somewhere else too (not sure where though).