Windows 10

andy_mk3 · 31 Jul 2015 at 21:09

Scratch that.. it's not activated! It's just no longer got the watermark on the screen to say so lol

Danny091 · 31 Jul 2015 at 21:18

Is their a button to take you to the store on the activation screen in settings? If so what does it say in there?

Brenn47 · 31 Jul 2015 at 21:18

Relentless81 said:
Ok I'll try the waiting game

Cheers

Nah, ignore it, done this 4 times now, just click skip, then go online to activate, not once do you have to enter of change ANY keys! Including W7 > W10!!!

Just doing another one now ... I'll let you know.

Brenn47 · 31 Jul 2015 at 21:20

Ebay pulled all the W7 OEM ads and banned the sellers! Think this happened a few weeks ago.

Dunno who kicked that off, loads of people said they had no problems upgrading.

Twirlywoos · 31 Jul 2015 at 21:23

how do I stop IE or Edge or whatever it is called now from launching when I launch an Origin game?

opethdisciple · 31 Jul 2015 at 21:37

When ever I log back in after locking PC, it always displays the start screen upon login.

andy_mk3 · 31 Jul 2015 at 21:37

Danny091 said:
Is their a button to take you to the store on the activation screen in settings? If so what does it say in there?

Tells me I'm a dirty stinking rotten pirate and demands £99.99.

Blackvault · 31 Jul 2015 at 21:44

Anyone know how to remove/hide the ENG bar beside the clock?

Blackvault

V F · 31 Jul 2015 at 21:49

Right click taskbar? Untick language bar?

Blackvault · 31 Jul 2015 at 21:49

V F said:
Right click taskbar? Untick language bar?

I don't see anything to do with the language bar listed there

Blackvault

Danny091 · 31 Jul 2015 at 21:50

Go to languages in control panel and then advanced i think their is something that mentions it.

robfosters · 31 Jul 2015 at 21:51

Is there an easy way to get it to look like win 8 rather than the win 7 desktop?

aceface57 · 31 Jul 2015 at 21:52

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.

I've seen something similar and the fix for me was to do a quick repair of office 365, worth a shot.

Danny091 · 31 Jul 2015 at 21:52

andy_mk3 said:
Tells me I'm a dirty stinking rotten pirate and demands £99.99.

Try running command prompt as admin with the following;

slmgr.vbs /ato

willhub · 31 Jul 2015 at 21:53

I still can't seem to get it to install on my laptop, it says I've reserve Windows 10 and I'll recieve a notification after the 29th July, however this has not happened yet and it's not the 31st??

Windows Update says "No updates are available"

What gives?

Danny091 · 31 Jul 2015 at 21:53

willhub said:
I still can't seem to get it to install on my laptop, it says I've reserve Windows 10 and I'll recieve a notification after the 29th July, however this has not happened yet and it's not the 31st??

Windows Update says "No updates are available"

What gives?

Read the FAQ :rolleyes:

Skeeter · 31 Jul 2015 at 21:57

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?

They aren't giving it away for free. Windows 10 is still being sold for the same price as 8.1 was before it.

What they are doing is shifting away from charging for new versions to simply charging for "a Windows license" in perpetuity. Versions are no longer relevant.

But to shift to this model they need to get everyone upto a base level, and the easiest way to do that is offer free upgrades to those on lower versions.

Free upgrades aren't new, 8.1 was a free upgrade from 8 and yet they are considered separate OSs by MS. The difference with 10 is the upgrade goes back 2 version, mainly because almost 60% of all Internet connected PC's were running 7.

Theres almost no money being lost too. Retail sales of W10 will continue and all the OEM (manufacturers, rather than home builders) and business licensing remains. What Microsoft gain is millions of people moving to 10 who otherwise would have just stuck on their current OSs.

andy_mk3 · 31 Jul 2015 at 21:59

Danny091 said:
Try running command prompt as admin with the following;

slmgr.vbs /ato

Skeeter · 31 Jul 2015 at 21:59

robfosters said:
Is there an easy way to get it to look like win 8 rather than the win 7 desktop?

In settings, click Use Full Screen Start.

Danny091 · 31 Jul 2015 at 22:00

andy_mk3 said:
snip

I would try restarting a few more times and running it after each one. Otherwise you might have to go back to 8 and upgrade again