Windows 10 upgrade notification

[WilsonWilson]

Motorrad said:

Teppic said:

I still haven't got my download.

You can force it.



http://pocketnow.com/2015/07/29/force-windows-10-u...

Just click on the ISO

Also I just installed Win 10 on a Lenovo Flex 2 with NVIDIA GT840M graphics and it works perfectly.


Only complaint so far is that there is no ad blocker for edge so I'm back to using Chrome.

On my fairly clean copy of 8.1Pro (only been using it for a month) I reserved Win10 but got multiple 'windows 10 has failed to update' in the automatic system update - it looked like it attempted to install after every boot. I tried the method above twice and although it downloaded the files each time it would fail to start the install. I ended up using http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/medi... and everything went smoothly, although it did download the files for a fourth time.

On my parents laptop outlook 365 seemed not to be sending emails not sure if that was a Win10 or ISP problem. Ended up running SFC /SCANNOW in Command Prompt (admin) which found and repaired quite a few errors and emails now seem to be sending without a string of error messages.

[Funk]

Morningside said:

Funk said:

Morningside said:

<SNIP>

You need to do an 'upgrade this pc' first to change your key to a 10 one before clean installing the ISO.

Sorry, could you explain??? At the moment there is a dialog box with "Downloading Windows 10, Feel free to keep using your PC" <prev> <next> grayed out the moment as it is still downloading.

OK, you follow this link:

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

Download the tool.

It then asks if you want to 'Upgrade this PC' or 'Create Install media':



You must upgrade first in order for MS to change your 7/8.1 key to a 10 key. You can then download and create an install disk but you'll need to extract your 10 key from the upgraded pc first. Use a product key finder to get the key. I used Nirsoft which allowed me to save it as a text file for later too.

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/product_cd_key_viewer...

Once you have your key and install media, wipe the machine and do a clean install if you want to.

[pokethepope]

How much space is it taking up for you guys? I installed W8.1 from a pen drive onto a brand new SSD and upgraded to W10 straight away, and just under 30GB of the SSD has been taken up. This seems way to much to my non-techy mind?

[Funk]

pokethepope said:

How much space is it taking up for you guys? I installed W8.1 from a pen drive onto a brand new SSD and upgraded to W10 straight away, and just under 30GB of the SSD has been taken up. This seems way to much to my non-techy mind?

Your 8.1 install will be sat in the Windows.old folder and deleted after 30 days. Check the size of that. If you don't want to revert you can delete it straight away.

Or extract your 10 key as per my post above, create W10 install disk and clean install that.

My Windows.old is ~25Gb btw.

[PanzerCommander]

Brother D said:

Motorrad said:

PanzerCommander said:

Word of warning to those updating from Win 7 to win 10 that have an NVIDIA graphics card. Win 10 swats NVIDIA like a bug. I am running on windows "basic" drivers as it doesn't even recognise my GPU

I have found a supposed fix but I won't know if it works until later today when I get home from work but seems its a problem with the auto updater and it downloading the windows approved NVIDIA drivers which actually aren't correct.

The crux of the fix is you have to kill all NVIDIA processes before updating the drivers as it cannot overwrite them otherwise (unlike a normal driver update where it just gets on with it and then re-boots the machine to bring the new drivers online

Works perfectly without doing anything here on Windows 10 from 7 upgrade- Nvidia GTX660. No issues whatsoever with drivers.

I had with my NVIDIA card. They had released an update last week. It tried to update and failed. Rebooted a couple of times and now it works...

I ended up having to re-start in safe mode to install the drivers in the end so it is fixed for me now.

[oceanview]

Got my notification through yesterday to upgrade to Win 10. I did this with no problems and all seemed well- the Microsoft Edge browser seemed quick but today it keeps buffering and then saying cant find website, whatever you enter.
I re-start the laptop and then it works fine again for a while before playing up again- anyone know what the issue is here/the fix??

[Morningside]

Funk said:

Morningside said:

Funk said:

Morningside said:

<SNIP>

You need to do an 'upgrade this pc' first to change your key to a 10 one before clean installing the ISO.

Sorry, could you explain??? At the moment there is a dialog box with "Downloading Windows 10, Feel free to keep using your PC" <prev> <next> grayed out the moment as it is still downloading.

OK, you follow this link:

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

Download the tool.

It then asks if you want to 'Upgrade this PC' or 'Create Install media':
<PHOTO>

You must upgrade first in order for MS to change your 7/8.1 key to a 10 key. You can then download and create an install disk but you'll need to extract your 10 key from the upgraded pc first. Use a product key finder to get the key. I used Nirsoft which allowed me to save it as a text file for later too.

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/product_cd_key_viewer...

Once you have your key and install media, wipe the machine and do a clean install if you want to.

Yup. I did that and managed to get my keys. What happens next? I do NOT want to lose any data or programs. Will it then go through several stages configurations/reboots.

Sorry, I am just being very cautious. Will I also be able to create an ISO after this as I may in the future need to reconfigure my machine.

[Funk]

Morningside said:

Yup. I did that and managed to get my keys. What happens next? I do NOT want to lose any data or programs. Will it then go through several stages configurations/reboots.

Sorry, I am just being very cautious. Will I also be able to create an ISO after this as I may in the future need to reconfigure my machine.

Erm.. I'm lost. Have you already got 10 installed?

[Morningside]

Funk said:

Morningside said:

Yup. I did that and managed to get my keys. What happens next? I do NOT want to lose any data or programs. Will it then go through several stages configurations/reboots.

Sorry, I am just being very cautious. Will I also be able to create an ISO after this as I may in the future need to reconfigure my machine.

Erm.. I'm lost. Have you already got 10 installed?

Confused. How do you think I feel?

No. I still have Windows 7 installed and followed that link that was shown and now waiting and waiting and waiting for it to complete.
What I am concerned about is that it will a) destroy all I have installed. b) will I be able to create an ISO of Windows 10 for the future.

I did download the preview ages ago and ran it up on VMWare and it does look quite nice.

[StressedEric]

Has anyone tried their Steam library in Win10?

Thanks.

[GlenMH]

Morningside said:

Confused. How do you think I feel?

No. I still have Windows 7 installed and followed that link that was shown and now waiting and waiting and waiting for it to complete.
What I am concerned about is that it will a) destroy all I have installed. b) will I be able to create an ISO of Windows 10 for the future.

I did download the preview ages ago and ran it up on VMWare and it does look quite nice.

Right:

If you use the MS tool linked above, you can do an in-place upgrade. This will then keep all your programs and data. I have done this on 2 machines.

You can then produce some installation media to rebuild your machine at a later date.

Once that is done, you need to extract your new W10 product key using the Nirsoft product linked to above.

Once you have done that (and ONLY when you have done it), you can then use the installation media to do a clean install.

Hope this helps!

[Teppic]

Well, after all that my Pc won't let me change the graphics driver from the Microsoft basic one, leaving me stuck with a god awful resolution of 1400 x 1050 (the gfx card port on the motherboard is fked, and Windows 10 says that my on board graphics is not supported) and my laptop bombed out half way through the installation..

Back to 8.1 for me.

[snuffy]

StressedEric said:

Has anyone tried their Steam library in Win10?

Thanks.

Yes. Works fine for me. Are you having difficulty ?

[Funk]

GlenMH said:

Morningside said:

Confused. How do you think I feel?

No. I still have Windows 7 installed and followed that link that was shown and now waiting and waiting and waiting for it to complete.
What I am concerned about is that it will a) destroy all I have installed. b) will I be able to create an ISO of Windows 10 for the future.

I did download the preview ages ago and ran it up on VMWare and it does look quite nice.

Right:

If you use the MS tool linked above, you can do an in-place upgrade. This will then keep all your programs and data. I have done this on 2 machines.

You can then produce some installation media to rebuild your machine at a later date.

Once that is done, you need to extract your new W10 product key using the Nirsoft product linked to above.

Once you have done that (and ONLY when you have done it), you can then use the installation media to do a clean install.

Hope this helps!

Spot on.

Make sure you back up your files if you're doing a clean install, Morningside. I haven't bothered on my laptop and it's running great so just doing the upgrade should be OK for you too. You can create an install disk in case you ever need to wipe and go from scratch.

[Morningside]

Funk said:

GlenMH said:

Morningside said:

Confused. How do you think I feel?

No. I still have Windows 7 installed and followed that link that was shown and now waiting and waiting and waiting for it to complete.
What I am concerned about is that it will a) destroy all I have installed. b) will I be able to create an ISO of Windows 10 for the future.

I did download the preview ages ago and ran it up on VMWare and it does look quite nice.

Right:

If you use the MS tool linked above, you can do an in-place upgrade. This will then keep all your programs and data. I have done this on 2 machines.

You can then produce some installation media to rebuild your machine at a later date.

Once that is done, you need to extract your new W10 product key using the Nirsoft product linked to above.

Once you have done that (and ONLY when you have done it), you can then use the installation media to do a clean install.

Hope this helps!

Spot on.

Make sure you back up your files if you're doing a clean install, Morningside. I haven't bothered on my laptop and it's running great so just doing the upgrade should be OK for you too. You can create an install disk in case you ever need to wipe and go from scratch.

Right thanks both. I think that is fairly clear. There is not really anything important on it so if it does all go tits up I am not that bothered, it's just a case of I like the "one click" solution.

[tight fart]

It's killed my laptop, it worked for about 5 mins then had a critical error, now just cycle throug booting and resetting.

Only thing I noticed wrong before it crashed was the wifi was off and I was trying to turn it back on.

[StressedEric]

snuffy said:

StressedEric said:

Has anyone tried their Steam library in Win10?

Thanks.

Yes. Works fine for me. Are you having difficulty ?

No no, just curious. I'm cautious, me.

[GrumpyTwig]

Did mine, download took ages but install was relatively swift.

Initial impressions are...... it's still windows. all the old dialogues are still there in the background and they still failed to integrate all the settings into a single new control panel/settings area.

I had to download/install video drivers, lucky I had a dvi monitor plugged in or my hdmi would have remained blank and I'd have had a panic.

DPI settings were entirely messed up when it first installed, for some reason I had to reset it to defaults.

However, it does look cleaner and all my files and majority of settings carried over from what I can see. Time will tell....

[mygoldfishbowl]

Groovy music is pissing me off.

Groovy even.

Plus I haven't got the same smaller resolution I used to have. It all seems very large & in my face. I can't change the resolution to under 100%. On my 22" screen two foot from my face it's too large.

I'm thinking about going back to 7

Edited by mygoldfishbowl on Saturday 1st August 23:48

[Morningside]

What a daft thing to do. I started the update at 11:30pm I am now staying up waiting for it to finish!