Windows 10 upgrade notification

[WinstonWolf]

69 coupe said:

Thanks, exact info I needed. I'll stick with 8.1 pro for a good while yet.

Yeah, I coulda done with someone else finding that one out for me

[jimmyjimjim]

Worth upgrading to get your 'authorization', then rolling back immediately to 8.1, surely?

That way you can go to 10 for free when the tools are actually available?

[WinstonWolf]

I'm evaluating it for customers, it's better for us to run 10 in house and find the quirks before it ends up on their networks

[anonymous-user]

I made a post a while back about how Windows 10 had persistently fallen over on a Dell XPS2720 all-in-one.

I spent an hour or two on the phone to Dell Premium Support, they eventually diagnosed a faulty mobo (I still felt it was a driver issue).

The very next day an engineer arrived with a new mobo, swapped it over and left me to do a clean Win 10 install.

This time it all went perfectly and two weeks later everything is still running nicely, well done to Dell.

[Fats25]

Was stuck on a 12 hour conference call yesterday from home, and was bored, and the upgrade now icon was winking at me. So I hit the button.

So far aside from the icons being available for Stevie Wonder to see, so far it looks ok, and went very smoothly. Will skim through the previous few pages, and see if I can see anything special I should be looking out for.

[Rick101]

All done here though I am running triples and got the black screen. Took some time and some faffing but got there eventually. When I finally did get screens on I was unable to run iRacing in full screen mode, took further tinkering and driver updates but now sorted and running well.

[Hoofy]

How do you turn off the notifications? I haven't got time to be a part-time sys admin while the beta testing is going on.

[anonymous-user]

Hoofy said:

How do you turn off the notifications? I haven't got time to be a part-time sys admin while the beta testing is going on.

Its either the arrow next to OR AT THE BOTTOM of the notifications box.
DESELECT the windows 10 one (I think its called 10 EMX or something)
Then the annoying little box vanishes !
If you want it removed from the Windows Upgrade then choose all updates then go into optional ones and hide the bounder
Sorry its not as clear as could be but I'm om 10 myself now and the taskbar is slightly different in presentation but the above will point you on the way

[Cobnapint]

I was going to wait until the new year before upgrading my trusty Win7 HP Pavilion PC to Win10, but couldn't resist, so tool the plunge yesterday.

It took about an hour to do but another two hours to sort out an issue with my HP Deskjet drivers (which kept me going round in a bloody loop until it finally succumbed) and Norton Internet Security which took it's time before letting me download the latest version.

Norton Utilities, however, still thinks I have issues and highlights exactly the same repairs on every registry scan - but I don't believe it, it's version 14.5 from 2010 so I might well uninstall it. From what I read about registry cleaners, you don't really need them unless you get real issues with windows, and I haven't (yet).

Decided to stick with IE11 for browsing. Edge is OK but you can't fit as may icons in the favourites bar as you can in IE, and you can't easily rename or move them about without going in to a separate menu. Seems a bit of a backward step to me.

Overall though, I like it.

[cirian75]

cirian75 said:

well windows 10 has been on my dads laptop for 3 weeks now

100% full legal install of win8, updated to 8.1 and then to 10 via windows update its self

jumped through all the hoops, even a pointless near 1 hour phone call to MS

And it still won't activate.

last Saturday out of the blue I decided on a whim to power up my old mans laptop, lo and behold, win10 activated

Job jobbed.

[Fats25]

So quick question. Everything has been running fine (with exception of a VPN connection I have through Overplay - which is an issue with OpenVPN). However today for no reason that I can think of, MS Edge will not connect to any websites.

DNS is working fine for Email, and through other browsers, but purely for Edge I cannot connect to any pages. I went looking for advanced options like I would do in any other browser to check for proxy settings etc, but I cannot even find this.

Any ideas? I am comfortably using Firefox, but curious what has stopped Edge from working.

[GreigM]

Fats25 said:

So quick question. Everything has been running fine (with exception of a VPN connection I have through Overplay - which is an issue with OpenVPN). However today for no reason that I can think of, MS Edge will not connect to any websites.

DNS is working fine for Email, and through other browsers, but purely for Edge I cannot connect to any pages. I went looking for advanced options like I would do in any other browser to check for proxy settings etc, but I cannot even find this.

Any ideas? I am comfortably using Firefox, but curious what has stopped Edge from working.

Click on Start and type "Internet Options" to find the control panel setting - that should configure Edge's settings.

[Fats25]

GreigM said:

Click on Start and type "Internet Options" to find the control panel setting - that should configure Edge's settings.

Thanks found it - but this was not the issue.

The issue is related to Mcafee firewall. Not sure of the exact issue as yet. I disabled firewall and it works. I re-enabled it and it still works.

I suspect the issue will return, and when it does I will need to have a read through here:-

http://superuser.com/questions/950435/where-is-mic...

and fiddle with the allowed programs to access internet.

[Kinky]

Not sure if anyone can help .....

Got a newish laptop, came with Win 8 home. I've got a spare legit Win 7 Ultimate license, and CD.

Installed Win 10 and it's installed the home version, but I quite fancy the 'Pro' version, which a Win 7 Ultimate upgrade would give me.

Does anyone know if there is a way to upgrade the Win 10 to the Pro version, using the Win 7 License? I could install Win 7 on the machine and upgrade that way, but that's a real flaff, and not 100% confident that Win 7 will install easily.

[Jinx]

Kinky said:

Not sure if anyone can help .....

Got a newish laptop, came with Win 8 home. I've got a spare legit Win 7 Ultimate license, and CD.

Installed Win 10 and it's installed the home version, but I quite fancy the 'Pro' version, which a Win 7 Ultimate upgrade would give me.

Does anyone know if there is a way to upgrade the Win 10 to the Pro version, using the Win 7 License? I could install Win 7 on the machine and upgrade that way, but that's a real flaff, and not 100% confident that Win 7 will install easily.

Not sure you have any other option - during the upgrade process you get assigned a new activated key (from the win 8 one) for your machine - which you can then use for a fresh win10 home install ( keyfinder) . A win 10 home to pro upgrade would be a different key again. So to get an activated win 10 pro you will need to install your win 7 ultimate - make sure it is activated - then run through the upgrade process getting your new win 10 key. A faff indeed.

[Nimby]

Jinx said:

Kinky said:

Not sure if anyone can help .....

Got a newish laptop, came with Win 8 home. I've got a spare legit Win 7 Ultimate license, and CD.

Installed Win 10 and it's installed the home version, but I quite fancy the 'Pro' version, which a Win 7 Ultimate upgrade would give me.

Does anyone know if there is a way to upgrade the Win 10 to the Pro version, using the Win 7 License? I could install Win 7 on the machine and upgrade that way, but that's a real flaff, and not 100% confident that Win 7 will install easily.

Not sure you have any other option - during the upgrade process you get assigned a new activated key (from the win 8 one) for your machine - which you can then use for a fresh win10 home install ( keyfinder) . A win 10 home to pro upgrade would be a different key again. So to get an activated win 10 pro you will need to install your win 7 ultimate - make sure it is activated - then run through the upgrade process getting your new win 10 key. A faff indeed.

Keyfinder just returns one of a few well-publicised generic keys. Once you've done a legal upgrade you can do a clean install without entering a key at all, just press "skip" at the prompt and it will activate online.

The Windows 10 "fall update" due out this week will let you do a clean install and activate using a Windows 7, 8 or 8.1 key without upgrading first.

[GlenMH]

Nimby said:

Keyfinder just returns one of a few well-publicised generic keys. Once you've done a legal upgrade you can do a clean install without entering a key at all, just press "skip" at the prompt and it will activate online.

I have now done clean installs on both my main machines and they have both activated fine using this method. Doing a clean install does make a noticeable improvement in responsiveness and a vast reduction in disk space used. My C: drive is now showing under 40GB used and that includes Office 2010 and everything else I need to be productive. My docs are on a separate data drive.

[AmitG]

I just got the big 1511 update, and so far I'm very impressed. The problem with applications randomly pegging the CPU at 100% seems to be largely gone. Edge is definitely faster than before. Maps was borderline unusable before, but is now fine.

I'm running a very low spec; an Intel UltraNUC Atom with a single CPU core @1.5GHz and primitive integrated graphics. I was previously going to upgrade to something more powerful, because it was so slow, but I think I will now keep it for a while.

Even the PH homepage is better, although it is so full of crap that it still takes ages to load

[Condi]

ash73 said:

Microsoft said:

If you upgraded within the last 30 Days, you will not get the [fall] update until the 31st day. This protects your ability to roll back to the previous OS.

Just a few days in I'm really liking Windows 10 combined with Classic Shell; no intention of going back and already hoovered up my windows.old folder. Anyhow don't mind waiting it gives them chance to iron out any bugs. Anyone else patched yet?

What do you need Classic Shell with W10 for? W10 already has a 'classic' front end.


I upgradings from W7 a week or so ago and very impressed. Much quicker than W7 and non of the stupid features of W8.

[Funk]

AmitG said:

I just got the big 1511 update, and so far I'm very impressed. The problem with applications randomly pegging the CPU at 100% seems to be largely gone. Edge is definitely faster than before. Maps was borderline unusable before, but is now fine.

I'm running a very low spec; an Intel UltraNUC Atom with a single CPU core @1.5GHz and primitive integrated graphics. I was previously going to upgrade to something more powerful, because it was so slow, but I think I will now keep it for a while.

Even the PH homepage is better, although it is so full of crap that it still takes ages to load

Have they fixed the annoying delay that you get with the Start button after the machine's been idle a while? It can be resolved by ending the Cortana process and allowing it to restart automatically but it's a bit st to have to do that.