Windows 10. "one of the files has expired"

lettuce · 1 Dec 2015 at 17:25

Just turned on my HTPC for the first time in a few months and on booting windows 10 im getting a message saying one of the files has expired (i believe its winload.exe). Im guessing this is because my build of Windows 10 has expired.

Question is i have got the win10 image on my USB stick but i cant see a way i can repair my build of windows without losing my programs and app (not personal data). Is there a way i can keep my programs and apps without losing them?

Also whats MS stance on multiple computers in the house hold running Windows 10, i have a product key for windows 10 on my main rig??

DarrenM343 · 2 Dec 2015 at 07:41

You need multiple licences which is fair.
When you say 'build', are you running a pre-release build? Not sure these are meant to be upgradeable to released version

lettuce · 2 Dec 2015 at 16:31

I'd say having one license per house hold was fair

andshrew · 2 Dec 2015 at 16:47

Haha. There's plenty of alternatives to Windows if you don't want to buy software licenses.