Windows 10

Finally, the new insider build makes life easy, it will now accept your old windows serials numbers to activate, rather than the silly machine id stuff.
 
I have now managed to download a working copy of the Windows 10 USB installer and have done a clean install. It is pretty good on the surface but a lot of driver problems with older hardware just trying to get it to work with my scanner and colour printer is a lot of unnecessary work. They still have a lot to do and really need to start talking to manufactures of hardware to get their kit more compatible. Its been a usefull experience but I will be staying with windows 7 and 8.1 until later in the new year probably until the free offer is close to its end date.
 
Here is an odd one.

Just did a fresh install last night of windows and when I boot, it shows a black screen with a cursor for about a minute before the login screen.

I have the lock screen disabled, and login picture removed as I did before, SSD drives are setup the same way, Nvidia gfx drivers are the same as I was using befor etc.

Any ideas?
 
Been asked to upgrade an Advent laptop to Win10 from 8.1. It is activated and has had the notification, but this was originally declined due to lack of install knowledge by the owner.

I have a win 10 .iso burnt to a DVD and copied to a stick. Shall I just use this and run setup from within windows?

Also I may need to upgrade offline. Is this doable?

cheers, andy.
 
nkata said:
Been asked to upgrade an Advent laptop to Win10 from 8.1. It is activated and has had the notification, but this was originally declined due to lack of install knowledge by the owner.

I have a win 10 .iso burnt to a DVD and copied to a stick. Shall I just use this and run setup from within windows?

Also I may need to upgrade offline. Is this doable?

cheers, andy.
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As long as its activated then it is tied to the motherboard and should be good to go.

As long as you upgrade first to 10, activate, then you can fresh install 10 afterwards if you want.

You can run it from within windows, or boot and yes - you can do it offline as all the steps regarding email setup etc can be skipped temporarily
 
I went back to 7 last night (within the 30 days) but made a back up of my 10 install first with Macrium. Can I use this to go back to 10 easily, or is it best to use the 'upgrade to W 10' icon I have again?
 
Uther said:
I went back to 7 last night (within the 30 days) but made a back up of my 10 install first with Macrium. Can I use this to go back to 10 easily, or is it best to use the 'upgrade to W 10' icon I have again?
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Technically you could do the Macrium option as long as no hardware has changed - it will still be tied to the mobo.

Is the w10 icon showing that you have correctly activated windows 10 or allocated your w10 allocation?
 
C35799Gamble said:
Technically you could do the Macrium option as long as no hardware has changed - it will still be tied to the mobo.

Is the w10 icon showing that you have correctly activated windows 10 or allocated your w10 allocation?
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No hardware change.The icon says 'upgrade to W 10' and 'last run 27/10/2015' which is when I first installed it.
It was activated automatically (when I went online I assume)
 
Glaucus said:
Finally, the new insider build makes life easy, it will now accept your old windows serials numbers to activate, rather than the silly machine id stuff.
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What if you go from an already activated win 10 pro to the insider program can you change your key with an old win7 retail one?
 
P4Clock said:
Why are they pushing it so hard. i mean it free so there getting what?
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Away from supporting several different versions of Windows...

If they can get enough people away from 7 and 8 to 10 they can potentially end support for Windows 7/8 sooner.
 
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