Windows 10

Skeeter · 21 Jul 2015 at 14:11

nkata said:
I assume that my windows 7 ultimate installations will be upgraded to windows 10 pro as there are only the two options. Hopefully this will be automatic.

Yep. Professional and Ultimate will upgrade to 10 Pro. Home and Home Premium will upgrade to 10 Home.

varkanoid · 21 Jul 2015 at 14:17

russell664 said:
Basically if you install over the top of Windows 8, it will move the old windows folder to Windows.old.

14GB should be enough, as my installation uses no where near that at stock.

but when you take off the 3-4gb for the download that drops to 11-10gb. Should be enough but you dont know how much "workspace" it needs during the install.

Skeeter · 21 Jul 2015 at 14:18

I would hope the upgrade is clever enough to check it has space before it will let you run it.

russell664 · 21 Jul 2015 at 14:34

^ This.

It checks that your system is suitable anyway, before install. So you should go for it.

gareth170 · 21 Jul 2015 at 14:43

boosfuk said:
No, because the pin is tied to that PC only.

Skeeter said:
The PIN, like the Picture Passwords, are only stored on the device you set them up on.

Hackers cannot access your account remotely using a PIN or Picture Password, only people who physically sit in front of your PC could.

so how would the pin work when you have 3 pc's / laptops all using the same login?

it says Skype and other MS services will use the pin

Skeeter · 21 Jul 2015 at 14:56

You have to setup a PIN on each machine. Its not shared.

ubersonic · 21 Jul 2015 at 15:39

gareth170 said:
i just had a thought, surely using a pin to log in instead of a password wouldn't it be easier for hackers to guess as it's just numbers?

The PIN has four digits, acceptable digits are 0-9, that's 10 choices per digit, 10x10x10x10 = 10,000 possible combinations.

A hacker would have to be sat at your machine to use the PIN to login.

If you're worried about somebody breaking into your house and running through 10,000 combinations then just use a regular password

JL94x4 · 21 Jul 2015 at 15:41

Had windows 10 installed on my machine since early preview came out, and all of a sudden after updating to 10240 via update/recovery i now have "Activate Windows - Go to settings to activate windows" watermark over every window.

How can i remove this? I've been an insider for about 8 months ffs. :mad:

Gilbert89 · 21 Jul 2015 at 15:41

robinbredin said:
Have you seen this thread,
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-win_upgrade/i-want-to-reserve-my-free-copy-of-windows-10-but-i/848b5cce-958b-49ae-a132-a999a883265b?auth=1

I had a quick glance on my phone and thought I simply cannot be bothed with the hassle but today it has suddenly appeared!

russell664 · 21 Jul 2015 at 15:43

JL94x4 said:
Had windows 10 installed on my machine since early preview came out, and all of a sudden after updating to 10240 via update/recovery i now have "Activate Windows - Go to settings to activate windows" watermark over every window.

How can i remove this? I've been an insider for about 8 months ffs.

Have you linked your account to the new system?

I assume that you have, in which case I do believe Microsoft have disabled new activations for now.

Boomstick777 · 21 Jul 2015 at 19:19

Have dropped back to Windows 7 for now. Data tracking is still present in latest build, supposedly being removed July 29th. Don't want to do banking etc on main PC until the data tracking thing is def gone.

Also cannot get 5.1 audio through optical to work on Windows 10 at all. This could kill the OS for me, gots to have 5.1.. Hopefully this will be sorted soon, really like 10.

malachi · 21 Jul 2015 at 19:29

When I enable SLI on my 670's it crashes Windows 10. Even with the latest build and drivers to a point it completely makes it unbootable and sits in repair mode or gives me BSOD with NTFS errors.

Hope they fix this for next week.

russell664 · 21 Jul 2015 at 19:35

Has anyone had any issues with the KB3074667 update?

Mine fails everytime, Windows 10 will not boot, unless I go into safe mode about three time, then it will boot. :confused:

Really annoying.

deuse · 21 Jul 2015 at 21:24

Boomstick777 said:
Have dropped back to Windows 7 for now. Data tracking is still present in latest build, supposedly being removed July 29th. Don't want to do banking etc on main PC until the data tracking thing is def gone.

Also cannot get 5.1 audio through optical to work on Windows 10 at all. This could kill the OS for me, gots to have 5.1.. Hopefully this will be sorted soon, really like 10.

Even if MS do turn it off on the 29th. There's no saying the won't turn it back on.

mctiny · 21 Jul 2015 at 21:25

Need a little help with 10240

HP Microserver, updated (via update) windows 8.1 pro to build 10166, then on to 10240, activated and all good.

HP Split (laptop), windows 8-8.1 pro, then multiple builds until 10162 (wouldn't update anymore) 10240 ISO downloaded and clean install. now won't activate using Pro key or MS account linked to insider...

I have 1 x windows 8/8.1 key, 1 x windows 8/8,1 pro key and two different linked MS accounts.

How can I get this activated?

or better to reinstall?
go back to 8.1 pro and update again?

andicole0 · 21 Jul 2015 at 21:27

mctiny said:
Need a little help with 10240

HP Microserver, updated (via update) windows 8.1 pro to build 10166, then on to 10240, activated and all good.

HP Split (laptop), windows 8-8.1 pro, then multiple builds until 10162 (wouldn't update anymore) 10240 ISO downloaded and clean install. now won't activate using Pro key or MS account linked to insider...

I have 1 x windows 8/8.1 key, 1 x windows 8/8,1 pro key and two different linked MS accounts.

How can I get this activated?

or better to reinstall?
go back to 8.1 pro and update again?

I don't think fresh installs of Win 10 are activating at the moment, MS are in transition mode prior to release. However if you use Google you can find a way to get 10240 activated.

Andi.

Boomstick777 · 21 Jul 2015 at 23:27

deuse said:
Even if MS do turn it off on the 29th. There's no saying the won't turn it back on.

Yeah I doubt that would happen, can you imagine how much controversy it cause. Once MS disable it will be gone, and obviously future builds shouldn't have it at all (I hope).

I think I'll jump back onto 10 when new legit ISO's start to appear. I don't care at all about data tracking on my other PC's which still have the latest 10 build, but my main PC I do work stuff, banking etc. Really don't want any back doors to my data in there. Interesting to see how MS go about it from 29th onwards. Maybe a simple patch for existing users that removes data tracking, and new ISO's without it altogether.

Skeeter · 21 Jul 2015 at 23:35

The tracking is part of the Insider Preview process and is designed to help them gather data to improve the software through the development phase. It serves no purpose in the 'standard' release. It won't be there.

mctiny · 22 Jul 2015 at 01:36

andicole0 said:
I don't think fresh installs of Win 10 are activating at the moment, MS are in transition mode prior to release. However if you use Google you can find a way to get 10240 activated.

Andi.

I had already had windows 10 activated (10162) that wouldn't update...

AthlonXP1800 · 22 Jul 2015 at 08:54

russell664 said:
Has anyone had any issues with the KB3074667 update?

Mine fails everytime, Windows 10 will not boot, unless I go into safe mode about three time, then it will boot. Really annoying.

Hmmm mine was updated KB3074667 10 min ago then restarted PC and booted reached lockscreen fine.