Windows 10

Simon Belmont · 31 Jul 2015 at 19:48

kitch9 said:
I'm having a nightmare, my subscription office 365 keeps pestering me to activate even though it is saying it's activated in my account. When I try to activate I get a spurious error which none of the fixes I can find solve. No amount of os refreshes our office installs solves it. All my other PCs are ok, and my same problem pc refuses to show other PCs in my home group even though it's joined it ok.

To top it off my phone (S6) is hammering it's battery in a few hours for no apparent reason.

Gah.

Not having a good day then

Danny091 · 31 Jul 2015 at 19:50

robfosters said:
Cheers, downloading the 64 bit home one now. Will make a bootable USB and cross my fingers.Will I need a product key?

If you have not upgraded yet you need to run upgrade first (not boot from it run it within windows) Just click on the ISO so windows 8 mounts it (or extract it with 7zip in w7) and run the setup.
After upgrading, once you have confirmed windows is activated you can do a clean install (boot from it). When it ask's for a product key just skip that step (it might ask twice).

Simon Belmont · 31 Jul 2015 at 19:50

robfosters said:
Cheers, downloading the 64 bit home one now. Will make a bootable USB and cross my fingers.Will I need a product key?

Your old windows will be the key. Just past the activation screen and it'll self activate.

Glaucus · 31 Jul 2015 at 20:11

14million installations in 24 hours :eek:

Compared to 4million for win8 in opening weekend Thursday through sunday.

Some 14 million people installed the Windows 10 operating system in the first 24 hours following its release, Microsoft said, calling the response "overwhelmingly positive."

Read more at:
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com...ofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

andy_mk3 · 31 Jul 2015 at 20:21

Shock 10 million more when it's free lol.

Just installed Start10. Always used Start8 on W8. Couldn't stand the metro crap, the W10 start menu is better but it's nothing on W7 start menu for my liking.

Glaucus · 31 Jul 2015 at 20:25

It'll be far more than 10million more, that's 24hrs compared to 4 days.

Steampunk · 31 Jul 2015 at 20:28

It's just marketing: "look at how many people want it, don't you want it too?" Remember how MS refused to tell people how many Win 8 they sold, or how many went back to Win 7?

spike2011 · 31 Jul 2015 at 20:32

I'm in no rush to upgrade from 8.1 will wait a few months too much hassle cant be bothered with windows 10 yet lol.

Atari · 31 Jul 2015 at 20:37

Does anyone know how I cant stop Windows 10 from highlighting the apps on the taskbar? If I mouse over them without clicking them, and then move the mouse off the taskbar, the icon I was last on remains lit up as though it's running - it's annoying

Relentless81 · 31 Jul 2015 at 20:43

I'm having a mare, upgraded from 8.1 to 10, activated fine. Did a clean install of 10, refuses to activate.

Am I going to have to install 8.1 again and then just upgrade to 10 from 8.1 if I want the cleanest install I can get with the free upgrade offer?

Danny091 · 31 Jul 2015 at 20:45

Relentless81 said:
I'm having a mare, upgraded from 8.1 to 10, activated fine. Did a clean install of 10, refuses to activate.

Am I going to have to install 8.1 again and then just upgrade to 10 from 8.1 if I want the cleanest install I can get with the free upgrade offer?

How is it refusing to activate?

robfosters · 31 Jul 2015 at 20:48

Can anyone point me to an article or something that explains why MS have decided to give such a big release away for free?

Relentless81 · 31 Jul 2015 at 20:49

Danny091 said:
How is it refusing to activate?

Its not activating?

Danny091 · 31 Jul 2015 at 20:50

Relentless81 said:
Its not activating?

Well i got that.. I men't what is the error saying? Have you got an activate button or not? Have you tried pushing the activate button constantly for 10 mins?

andicole0 · 31 Jul 2015 at 20:51

Just noticed this Windows 10 forum thanks OCUK.

Andi.

Relentless81 · 31 Jul 2015 at 20:51

Danny091 said:
Well i got that.. I men't what is the error saying? Have you got an activate button or not? Have you tried pushing the activate button constantly for 10 mins?

It says "Change product key"

The last few digits of the key shown isn't the key from the 8.1 I upgraded with

Glaucus · 31 Jul 2015 at 20:57

robfosters said:
Can anyone point me to an article or something that explains why MS have decided to give such a big release away for free?

Several reasons.
Money from os has been declining for years and years
Revenue for services has been increasing.
They need large user base to get app developers interested in windows.

Basically it all comes down to user base, the larger the user base the more successful and the more money MS will make.

Danny091 · 31 Jul 2015 at 20:58

Relentless81 said:
It says "Change product key"

The last few digits of the key shown isn't the key from the 8.1 I upgraded with

Have you tried restarting a few times? Uncle_gravy restarted 8 times and it fixed itself.

andy_mk3 · 31 Jul 2015 at 20:59

Relentless81 said:
I'm having a mare, upgraded from 8.1 to 10, activated fine. Did a clean install of 10, refuses to activate.

Am I going to have to install 8.1 again and then just upgrade to 10 from 8.1 if I want the cleanest install I can get with the free upgrade offer?

I did the same thing, upgraded then clean install. The day after is said it wasn't activated. Error code was showing it was installed on more than one computer. So restarted today and it's now activated. So just wait 24 hours and it should be fine.

Relentless81 · 31 Jul 2015 at 21:08

Ok I'll try the waiting game

Cheers