Windows 10

Skeeter · 2 Aug 2015 at 16:06

Danny091 said:
You dont get a 10 key. Its all just tied to the activation servers and hardware

And MSA account, which might be where your issue lies?

Danny091 · 2 Aug 2015 at 16:07

Not even an MS account i've done a complete wipe and reinstall only using local accounts and it activated again.

wildest_jjk · 2 Aug 2015 at 16:10

Danny091 said:
Not even an MS account i've done a complete wipe and reinstall only using local accounts and it activated again.

Yep I have a big problem I think with my original key now, I just hope it's referring to my Windows 10 activation as being blocked. I would just rather not reinstall again but it looks like I have no choice.

Danny091 · 2 Aug 2015 at 16:10

did you try

"slui.exe 4" in admin cmd? It brings up the phone thing for me and mines activated already

wildest_jjk · 2 Aug 2015 at 16:14

Danny091 said:
did you try

"slui.exe 4" in admin cmd? It brings up the phone thing for me and mines activated already

Yep it does work just going through the process now. I can't see how it will possibly work though? Lol

EDIT: It says "Oh dear" when I enter the Installation ID so going to get passed through to Activation support lol.

Deleted member 77746 · 2 Aug 2015 at 16:16

wildest_jjk said:
Yep it does work just going through the process now. I can't see how it will possibly work though? Lol

EDIT: It says ID when I enter the Installation ID so going to get passed through to Activation support lol.

It did on windows 8.1 and windows 7 and windows vista and windows xp.

wildest_jjk · 2 Aug 2015 at 16:17

mrbell1984 said:
It did on windows 8.1 and windows 7 and windows vista and windows xp.

It did work? This is totally different activation though isn't it?

llamadal · 2 Aug 2015 at 16:17

Also, the server is being hammered, that error code saying your key is blocked doesn't actually mean that it is. (Silly I know)

Give it a few days, should sort itself out if not then request callback.

Deleted member 77746 · 2 Aug 2015 at 16:18

wildest_jjk said:
It did work? This is totally different activation though isn't it?

What phone activation? Nope it's the same

wildest_jjk · 2 Aug 2015 at 16:20

mrbell1984 said:
What phone activation? Nope it's the same

I mean the use of product keys etc, anyway here goes...

wildest_jjk · 2 Aug 2015 at 16:24

Straight through to tech support, they will not activate it over the phone as they just say I need to wait because of the servers.

As soon as I say I have waited and it was activated before they then ask about the error I'm getting. After this I get transferred.

Glaucus · 2 Aug 2015 at 16:29

wildest_jjk said:
Straight through to tech support, they will not activate it over the phone as they just say I need to wait because of the servers.

As soon as I say I have waited and it was activated before they then ask about the error I'm getting. After this I get transferred.

The blocked error code, is also the same code you get when servers are to busy, I had that for just over a day, then it activated on it's own, even spamming the activate button didn't work.

wildest_jjk · 2 Aug 2015 at 16:32

Glaucus said:
The blocked error code, is also the same code you get when servers are to busy, I had that for just over a day, then it activated on it's own, even spamming the activate button didn't work.

Yeh I agree with you it was the same. The problem is with it suddenly becoming unactivated after upgrading the BIOS I can't see how it will suddenly just activate?

Glaucus · 2 Aug 2015 at 16:36

wildest_jjk said:
Yeh I agree with you it was the same. The problem is with it suddenly becoming unactivated after upgrading the BIOS I can't see how it will suddenly just activate?

Why wouldn't it, we can only assume it's changed the hardware hash so it's unactivated, you'll have to wait and see if it will activate. If it doesn't activate after a couple of days then you'll have to do something. It's not much of an issue for a few days.

Robzere31 · 2 Aug 2015 at 17:14

Updated the wife's 5 year old laptop last night to W10... Shock horror updated no problem! :eek:

koolpc · 2 Aug 2015 at 17:24

Skeeter said:
I don't see how they could have made it any simpler than the "click here to get Windows 10" method they have used?

Its not a matter of how easy it is to get!

Its the fact that people always seem to have big issues with their software on release. Always takes many updates to get things running smoother when an OS is a very long time in development. In other words they could very easily make it more compatible. They have had years in developing OS's. I know they cant cater for every bit of hardware around and all the different setups but i am sure they could do it a lot better than what they do now. Even if it is free.

MichaelAwkward · 2 Aug 2015 at 17:42

Just installed on my Asus X205TA. Took about half an hour, opted not to keep anything. Working great so far, but I had to run Disk Cleanup otherwise it had left behind all of the old installation and installation files, taking up about 14GB.

caff · 2 Aug 2015 at 17:53

Quite liking the upgrade so far, but having the same activation issues as lots of people. Microsoft have said to just wait - don't touch the product key, and don't try to reinstall Windows or force activation. They say it will be fixed within a few days.

The thing I like most is the new dual monitor support. Multiple taskbars now inbuilt, and it's great being able to run a game at non-native res on one monitor without it impacting the other.

Delvis · 2 Aug 2015 at 18:04

Danny091 said:
You can mount the iso in windows 8.1 by double clicking on it and run the update that way
in windows 7 just extract the iso with 7zip and run the setup and upgrade

or of course burn them to a disk or usb (with rufus)

Skeeter said:
You can do an upgrade with the ISO as well as a clean install. Its the same files you are getting though the media tool, just pre packaged into an ISO.

Just download, mount and run Setup.exe.

Cool. If it fails this evening I'll do that then

Orcvader · 2 Aug 2015 at 18:15

So I haven't installed the drivers yet for my HP network printer, but then when I enabled fire sharing across my network, when it found the printer it automatically installed the HP AiO app. Which honestly, looks nicer than the stock HP driver package without all that junk HP bundles with it.

... I then realise I'm actually preferring the app version of some programs instead of the default desktop versions I used to use on 7. It wasn't like this when I tried 8/8.1, but with 10 apps from the Windows store feels very comfortable in desktop mode.