Windows 10

OverDrive · 28 Jul 2015 at 14:55

Hi guys,

Apologies if this has been covered already. I registered on the insider programme last year and tested a couple of the early builds, but then went back to running 8.1 on both my computers.

Will I still get 10 RTM as an insider tomorrow or would I have had to have been running a preview build?

I also have a couple of unused Windows 7 and 8.1 keys, would I be able to ‘upgrade’ these keys to Windows 10 in case I need to use them in the future?

Cheers.

Loxa · 28 Jul 2015 at 15:06

So once you have upgraded to Win10 through the windows upgrade you will be able to preform a fresh install after?

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/microsoft-...-free-upgrade-no-product-key-required-1504362

Goose · 28 Jul 2015 at 15:08

Does anyone know if you can check to see if it has been pre-loaded on Win7 machines?

MOOGLEYS · 28 Jul 2015 at 15:12

Montala said:
Probably a silly question, but what is the easiest way to find whether it has already been pre-loaded, or not?

If you run the disk clean-up util and ask it to clean up system files it shows as "Temporary Windows Installation files". Mine is 7.07GB...

oldestgregg · 28 Jul 2015 at 15:13

Loxa said:
So once you have upgraded to Win10 through the windows upgrade you will be able to preform a fresh install after?

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/microsoft-...-free-upgrade-no-product-key-required-1504362

Yes. Its tied to youre account so once you upgrade,get the iso/usb bootdrive and clean install. If I understand it right theres no key anymore just a sign in?

What has me concerned there is,I have both a PC and a SP3 both with 8.1 on it and both use the same sign in details. Not sure how that will work if im correct

ED209 · 28 Jul 2015 at 15:14

MOOGLEYS said:
If you run the disk clean-up util and ask it to clean up system files it shows as "Temporary Windows Installation files". Mine is 7.07GB...

can confirm on my windows 7 home premium system that mine is sitting at 5.98GB

EdwardTeach · 28 Jul 2015 at 15:14

Loxa said:
So once you have upgraded to Win10 through the windows upgrade you will be able to preform a fresh install after?

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/microsoft-...-free-upgrade-no-product-key-required-1504362

It says that once you have upgraded, when you do a clean install it will not need a key. How is this going to work? Will it somehow recognise your machine? What happens if you upgrade the cpu or graphics card. When would it stop recognising your pc as being the same one that the license is attached to?

MOOGLEYS · 28 Jul 2015 at 15:16

EdwardTeach said:
It says that once you have upgraded, when you do a clean install it will not need a key. How is this going to work? Will it somehow recognise your machine? What happens if you upgrade the cpu or graphics card. When would it stop recognising your pc as being the same one that the license is attached to?

It's tied to your Microsoft account and your PC. If you do a fresh install from the ISO it will check your PC and log in using your Microsoft account. If these match then no key will be required.

I imagine if you upgrade you will need to do a telephone upgrade a bit like Win 8..

Montala · 28 Jul 2015 at 15:16

MOOGLEYS said:
If you run the disk clean-up util and ask it to clean up system files it shows as "Temporary Windows Installation files". Mine is 7.07GB...

Thanks for the reply... just had a look on mine, and nothing in there on that scale at all.

I will just have to be patient for the next few days and see what happens!

ED209 · 28 Jul 2015 at 15:18

EdwardTeach said:
It says that once you have upgraded, when you do a clean install it will not need a key. How is this going to work? Will it somehow recognise your machine? What happens if you upgrade the cpu or graphics card. When would it stop recognising your pc as being the same one that the license is attached to?

not too sure if this has changed but the upgrade is for the life of the PC. if you upgrade the mobo and cpu its classed as a new system so I would do any hardware upgrades first before upgrading to 10

MOOGLEYS · 28 Jul 2015 at 15:18

Montala said:
Thanks for the reply... just had a look on mine, and nothing in there on that scale at all.

I will just have to be patient for the next few days and see what happens!

Mine only appeared this morning. I would just leave your pc on and logged in and see if it downloads at some point today.

gareth170 · 28 Jul 2015 at 15:20

is this the right size? or is it different for everybody?

MOOGLEYS · 28 Jul 2015 at 15:23

It could be different depending what you have installed already, Languages, updates etc....

MOOGLEYS · 28 Jul 2015 at 15:30

gareth170 said:
is this the right size? or is it different for everybody?

Where is this folder I cannot find it on mine ?

hyperseven · 28 Jul 2015 at 15:32

Hidden system folder on the root of windows drive, change your view options

gareth170 · 28 Jul 2015 at 15:33

MOOGLEYS said:
Where is this folder I cannot find it on mine ?

it's hidden on the root of C:

MOOGLEYS · 28 Jul 2015 at 15:35

hyperseven said:
Hidden system folder on the root of windows drive, change your view options

Ah I should have realised that...

Mine is showing as 6.97GB from there...

Born_2_Kill_83 · 28 Jul 2015 at 15:35

Yet to upgrade and I deleted mine, opps?

MOOGLEYS · 28 Jul 2015 at 15:40

Anyone tried running the setup.exe from within the downloaded $Windows.~BT folder ?

The version of the downloaded update files is "10.0.10240.16384.0|9|en-GB"

MouthBoy · 28 Jul 2015 at 15:43

ED209 said:
not too sure if this has changed but the upgrade is for the life of the PC. if you upgrade the mobo and cpu its classed as a new system so I would do any hardware upgrades first before upgrading to 10

What happens to retail versions of pervious installations? I have reinstalled my retail Win7 many times due to hardware changes, when I upgrade will I loose this ability? Also will I be able to, if I do not like Win10, downgrade to Win7 again afterwards by using my Win7 key?