Windows 10 upgrade notification

Windows 10 upgrade notification

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Durzel

12,232 posts

167 months

Monday 1st June 2015
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Had notification pop up, clicked "Reserve", the program crashes and now there is no "Reserve" button. Good work Microsoft.

LordGrover

33,531 posts

211 months

Monday 1st June 2015
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I expect you clicked it wrong. yes

MarkRSi

5,782 posts

217 months

Monday 1st June 2015
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Does the icon remain in the taskbar after you've reserved...?




LordGrover

33,531 posts

211 months

Monday 1st June 2015
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I don't fecking know! grumpy

Laurel Green

30,770 posts

231 months

Monday 1st June 2015
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MarkRSi said:
Does the icon remain in the taskbar after you've reserved...?
My icon is still there from when I reserved it this morning. yes

ETA: OK, not this morning as just checked and it was 12.38

FourWheelDrift

Original Poster:

88,375 posts

283 months

Monday 1st June 2015
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MarkRSi said:
Does the icon remain in the taskbar after you've reserved...?
Yes as it's a help to know more about 10, check your PC can run it and let you know when it's available to download. If you click on the icon tray up arrow bit then select customise you can hide it.

Driver101

14,376 posts

120 months

Monday 1st June 2015
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I've not received a notification yet. Even when I try to update Windows, nothing is on offer.

Man-At-Arms

5,906 posts

178 months

Monday 1st June 2015
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got mine and 'reserved'

but i'm confused . . . . where's Windows 9 ??

FourWheelDrift

Original Poster:

88,375 posts

283 months

Monday 1st June 2015
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Not a good idea to call it Windows No for the German speaking market place.

Halb

53,012 posts

182 months

Monday 1st June 2015
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-Smithy, you haven't seen any suspicious characters hanging around have you, who might be German spies?
-Nein.
-Nine! Well, the cap's got his work cut out, then

WinstonWolf

72,857 posts

238 months

Monday 1st June 2015
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ash73 said:
Why did they need to do this?
8 has been a disaster, they need to get a large user base onto 10 quickly.

Ray Luxury-Yacht

8,910 posts

215 months

Monday 1st June 2015
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LordGrover said:
I expect you clicked it wrong. yes
biggrin

Chimune

3,159 posts

222 months

Monday 1st June 2015
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FourWheelDrift said:
Remember the cycle of Windows.

Windows 95/98 Good
Windows ME - Bad
Windows XP - Good
Windows Vista - Bad
Windows 7 - Good
Windows 8 - Bad
Windows 10 - So...........Good?
Win3.1 was great!
Win2000 was good.
Win8 isn't bad, its just different and not really suited to desktops or non touch laptops.

But your list kinda works as an internet meme I guess....


Funk

26,254 posts

208 months

Monday 1st June 2015
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Man-At-Arms said:
got mine and 'reserved'

but i'm confused . . . . where's Windows 9 ??
Same place Aston parked the DB8.

PC looks like it'll upgrade OK but the laptop's bluetooth might break apparently...



Edited by Funk on Monday 1st June 22:21

Dogwatch

6,221 posts

221 months

Monday 1st June 2015
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Zerotonine said:
It does take a little while to upgrade to it, took me best part of four hours.

Edited by Zerotonine on Monday 1st June 18:45
Hmmmmm. True it's only the Beta but still..........

Hoofy

76,253 posts

281 months

Monday 1st June 2015
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FourWheelDrift said:
Remember the cycle of Windows.

Windows 95/98 Good
Windows ME - Bad
Windows XP - Good
Windows Vista - Bad
Windows 7 - Good
Windows 8 - Bad
Windows 10 - So...........Good?
Surely...
Windows 9 - Good
Windows 10 - Well, they skipped 9 so expect the worst?

RobinBanks

17,540 posts

178 months

Monday 1st June 2015
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Do I need to reserve it now to get it free?
I have two PCs I won't be at until next week and I'd rather not have to pay to upgrade them

mp3manager

4,254 posts

195 months

Tuesday 2nd June 2015
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The notification doesn't mention any of the different SKU's but there'll be Windows 10 Home & Pro.

I've got Windows 7 Ultimate retail edition, so I'll be getting Windows 10 Pro but the million dollar question is....I'm building a new gaming rig soon, so will I be able to install a fresh copy of Windows 10 Pro with my Windows 7 product key, or will I have to install 7 and then do an in-place upgrade? moan

I just want to download an ISO onto a bootable thumb-drive, which I can fresh install onto an SSD, without all that tedious mucking about with a 'Windows_Old' directory. ranting





Edited by mp3manager on Tuesday 2nd June 05:33

Funk

26,254 posts

208 months

Tuesday 2nd June 2015
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Interesting about Windows updates being fully automatic for home users. Pro and Ent will have the option not to install but home users won't, it'll be done whether you like it or not...

I don't let my machines update automatically especially as it can often require a restart. I get the notification but normally wait to see if it breaks something for others before installing it myself.

I may just stick with 7 and 8.1 unless there's something compelling to make the upgrade worthwhile.

wolves_wanderer

12,356 posts

236 months

Tuesday 2nd June 2015
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mp3manager said:
The notification doesn't mention any of the different SKU's but there'll be Windows 10 Home & Pro.

I've got Windows 7 Ultimate retail edition, so I'll be getting Windows 10 Pro but the million dollar question is....I'm building a new gaming rig soon, so will I be able to install a fresh copy of Windows 10 Pro with my Windows 7 product key, or will I have to install 7 and then do an in-place upgrade? moan

I just want to download an ISO onto a bootable thumb-drive, which I can fresh install onto an SSD, without all that tedious mucking about with a 'Windows_Old' directory. ranting





Edited by mp3manager on Tuesday 2nd June 05:33
I read an article that states you will be allowed to activate Windows 10 with a Windows 7 key so you will be able to download the ISO and use your existing key to activate (you wouldn't be able to use it to activate Windows 7 again obviously).