Windows 10 upgrade notification

[IATM]

CoinSl0t said:

b2hbm said:

Heck, I'm sorry you've had problems with the link. To stop anyone else having the same issues, this is from the MS website

"You can install from an ISO, a USB, or a DVD. Here's how:

Mount the ISO, and then run setup.exe from it.
If you downloaded to a USB or a DVD, run setup.exe from the USB or DVD.

Both of these options allow you to upgrade the PC if it's already running Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, or Windows 10."


I appreciate it's not that clear but elsewhere on the MS website there's info that says for a free upgrade you MUST upgrade first, register and then do a clean install if you wish after you've activated the PC.

There is a FAQ page which has a few points on installing/upgrading.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/...

The process given there does work, it's just a bit strange. The laptop that was upgrading whilst I wrote the first post finished without asking for any numbers. It activated ok and then I found the product key, switched off the laptop and swapped the old drive for a new blank SSD. Insert the dvd created by that link, boot, format & install.

It let me skip the product key at first but eventually asked for a number. I entered the one found from the upgrade (and still on the old HD). It went through no problem, activated and all is well. So that ISO will let you do a clean install on a new HD with the same serial number, presumably it's linking the activation with the motherboard ?

Completely different experience on my home laptop (8.1). Downloaded, clean install, fully installed in less than 30 minutes.

I've been using it for several hours without issue, ??

Same for me - PC on, got notification, went made a cup of tea, by the time I finsihed drinking it it was fully installed ready to use.

bloody looks nice!

[krunchkin]

downloaded and installed it easily using the link someone kindly provided here. Very impressed. Microsoft have actually delivered a good looking, smart, organised OS with everything where you would expect it to be. It really isn't THAT hard to upgrade a system under the hood and modernise the UI - it just makes you boggle at how they allowed such a clearly abysmal, unintuitive piece of turd like 8 to go out the door.

[red_slr]

Left laptop on last night to download (1mb/s internet) and it was done by about 6am.

Brought laptop to work today and fired it up about 25 mins ago... now at 18% "upgrading windows"...

[IATM]

IATM said:

CoinSl0t said:

b2hbm said:

Heck, I'm sorry you've had problems with the link. To stop anyone else having the same issues, this is from the MS website

"You can install from an ISO, a USB, or a DVD. Here's how:

Mount the ISO, and then run setup.exe from it.
If you downloaded to a USB or a DVD, run setup.exe from the USB or DVD.

Both of these options allow you to upgrade the PC if it's already running Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, or Windows 10."


I appreciate it's not that clear but elsewhere on the MS website there's info that says for a free upgrade you MUST upgrade first, register and then do a clean install if you wish after you've activated the PC.

There is a FAQ page which has a few points on installing/upgrading.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/...

The process given there does work, it's just a bit strange. The laptop that was upgrading whilst I wrote the first post finished without asking for any numbers. It activated ok and then I found the product key, switched off the laptop and swapped the old drive for a new blank SSD. Insert the dvd created by that link, boot, format & install.

It let me skip the product key at first but eventually asked for a number. I entered the one found from the upgrade (and still on the old HD). It went through no problem, activated and all is well. So that ISO will let you do a clean install on a new HD with the same serial number, presumably it's linking the activation with the motherboard ?

Completely different experience on my home laptop (8.1). Downloaded, clean install, fully installed in less than 30 minutes.

I've been using it for several hours without issue, ??

Same for me - PC on, got notification, went made a cup of tea, by the time I finsihed drinking it it was fully installed ready to use.

bloody looks nice!

LOL me and my big mouth - Looks like during the install it wiped off my kaspersky and also the font has went a little funny on some applications - I am hoping after a few restarts it will sort itself out with updates and stuff!
lol

[Munter]

My upgrade had a "critical process failure" after doing the driver update stage,and making the HDD go "eek eek eek...", then failed to collect the error data to send back to MS, and after a restart rolled back to Win7.

...now was it a glitch...

[red_slr]

Just done - took 1hr 15 min.

All my faves have gone from "edge".... any ideas?!

[MickC]

red_slr said:

Just done - took 1hr 15 min.

All my faves have gone from "edge".... any ideas?!

There is an option somewhere to import IE bookmarks into Edge. Can't say I'm impressed by Edge anyway tbh.

[onlynik]

dxg said:

The previous images seem to, but not the final image.

There is talk of uninstalling parallels tools, upgrading, then reinstalling the tools. Which I will no doubt have to try at the weekend...

Upgraded on 8.1 to 10 on Parallels and it works fine.

Parallels tools installed themselves after the upgrade.

[IATM]

Well I went back to 8.1.
Dont went fuzzy on a few applications and really cant be bothered figuring out why

The joys

[clonmult]

PanzerCommander said:

clonmult said:

I've seen mention of this, but haven't had any such problems. Laptop is older, running an NVidia GT520M and Intel HD3000, both have worked perfectly throughout the whole insider program - and the current w10 install on there is apparently the same as what has been publicly released in the last day.

Interesting, I wonder if its something to do with the NVIDIA control panel and the other swizz that surrounds it. My card isn't exactly new (GTX780) but its not old either.

My SAITEK pro-flight trim wheel also crashes windows 10 when I move it, all my other flight sim hardware seems to be fine.

The NVidia drivers are pretty much one install for all of their product range, I still have the full NVidia control panel available - have done all the way since the first release of W10.

However, that could be part of it - I've been going through the insider program from early days. I haven't gone through the Win7-Win10 "production" upgrade process.

[dxg]

onlynik said:

dxg said:

The previous images seem to, but not the final image.

There is talk of uninstalling parallels tools, upgrading, then reinstalling the tools. Which I will no doubt have to try at the weekend...

Upgraded on 8.1 to 10 on Parallels and it works fine.

Parallels tools installed themselves after the upgrade.

Parallels just sent this round:

Upgrading to Windows 10?
If you are planning to upgrade your Windows virtual machine to Windows 10, Parallels suggests that you wait until the Parallels Engineering team has the opportunity to test the several different ways to upgrade to Windows 10, and can release recommended steps for upgrading a Parallels Desktop virtual machine.

Please refer to this KB article for more details.


So I think I'll wait a bit rather than mess around with uninstalling the tools. In years gone by (hell, I remember nipping to PC World on my lunch break the very day Windows 95 came out), I would have hacked something together but these days time is precious...

[ArsE92]

I couldn't be bothered waiting for the upgrade, so I downloaded the ISO from the Action Pack this morning and installed. The whole process took less than an hour and everything is working as expected.

Time will tell!

[_dobbo_]

Ste1987 said:

judas said:

I've just upgraded* my Surface Pro 3 from 8.1 to 10. Went quickly and smoothly but oddly enough I now miss the tile based Metro interface.

That's just wrong.

* Time will tell whether it's actually an 'Upgrade' or not...

In one of the technical evaluations, you could change the start menu to the Windows 8.1 tiles. Then the next evaluation came along and I forgot how to do it. Does that exist now or did they do away with it? I'm gonna have a go with it on my spare PC

Just upgraded my surface too - stick it in "Tablet" mode and it will go back to a windows 8.1 style menu.

Can't decide if I like the new start menu or not, but then I was one of the people who never understood the fuss about the win8 start menu. It was easier to organise, less cluttered, and so much faster to use than the win7 one.

[8bit]

So I've had the upgrade applet icon in the system tray for the past few weeks and I had done the "reserve your upgrade" thing. Fired PC up last night after work to see if it would start downloading/upgrading etc. but the icon has vanished. I had a look online and tried some suggestions around running some .exe files in C:\Windows\System32\GWX or wherever it is under an admin-level command prompt, all do nothing, no icon, no upgrade, nada.

Anyone know what's going on here or even getting the same thing happening?

[_dobbo_]

8bit said:

Anyone know what's going on here or even getting the same thing happening?

Same thing happened to me on all three of my PCs/Tablets. Icon disappeared, couldn't get the Win10 upgrade.

Being an impatient sort I updated two from here:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/...

Will leave the main work PC a few weeks, but the surface and home PC upgraded no problems.

[jimlad71]

If you go into device manager
right click the Microsoft basic display adapter
Update driver software
Browse my computer
Browse to the folder where the Nvidia drivers are stored and then let it do its thing

I upgraded 2 PC's with Nvidia cards and this method worked on both

[Russ35]

IATM said:

LOL me and my big mouth - Looks like during the install it wiped off my kaspersky and also the font has went a little funny on some applications - I am hoping after a few restarts it will sort itself out with updates and stuff!
lol

I thought that it had wiped my Norton, but when I got in last night there was a screen up saying I needed to update my copy of Norton, so it downloaded and installed I presume the latest version.

My machine has a NVIDIA GeForce GT640 and has upgraded without problems. I did install the latest drivers (that I kept being prompted to do for the last couple of weeks) prior to upgrading to Win10

Just tried a manual activation and it has worked this time.

[Oakey]

I'm having a nightmare with the ISO download tool. Twice now it's started downloading only for me to come back and find the window has disappeared completely. Now downloading for the third time to try and see what happens at 100%.

Edit: Okay, I get 'Modern Setup Host has stopped working' when it gets to 100% of 'Creating Windows 10 Media'

Edited by Oakey on Thursday 30th July 13:54

[red_slr]

Wow its bad. Sooooo sloooooowwwwww...
2 finger scroll has stopped working also.
Boot has gone from 20 secs to 120 ish.

How do I roll back!!!

[IATM]

Russ35 said:

IATM said:

LOL me and my big mouth - Looks like during the install it wiped off my kaspersky and also the font has went a little funny on some applications - I am hoping after a few restarts it will sort itself out with updates and stuff!
lol

I thought that it had wiped my Norton, but when I got in last night there was a screen up saying I needed to update my copy of Norton, so it downloaded and installed I presume the latest version.

My machine has a NVIDIA GeForce GT640 and has upgraded without problems. I did install the latest drivers (that I kept being prompted to do for the last couple of weeks) prior to upgrading to Win10

Just tried a manual activation and it has worked this time.

I managed to get a new version of Kaspersky and use my activation code and it all worked fine however I then started to get fuzzy blurred font or 3 application including skype so went bank to 8.1
lol