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Re: Windows 10 "upgrade"? haha
« Reply #70 on: July 31, 2015, 01:50:19 PM »
Quote from: keanex on July 31, 2015, 01:26:31 PM
Cool. I'm planning on doing the built in upgrade. I know people usually recommend a fresh install, but I have installed Windows 8 3 times on my PCs in the past 3 months. I don't want to have to re-set everything up again.
This is the first time in my life I haven't done a clean install.

Problem-free so far, and it did a fantastic job of preserving everything accurately. 
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Re: Windows 10 "upgrade"? haha
« Reply #71 on: July 31, 2015, 02:58:16 PM »
Maybe just stick with Linux and your fancy "3D games" if you don't know how to Windows. These all sound like user or Windows noob issues to me. :P

FWIW, Win10 upgrade went flawlessly on my off-brand, cheapo, semi-crappy, 8" tablet. Even carried over my weird back-end tweaks to keep the tablet from going to sleep (so the screen can turn off while music is playing without going into night night mode). Only thing I had to do was re-install JRMC, but that was to be expected based on the way its registration works.
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Re: Windows 10 "upgrade"? haha
« Reply #72 on: July 31, 2015, 07:27:11 PM »
Agree!

Mine is working flawlessly... dare I say this version looks and feels wonderful?!!? :o
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Re: Windows 10 "upgrade"? haha
« Reply #73 on: July 31, 2015, 09:34:18 PM »
Got everything working and I think it's pretty good.  Definitely a much smaller footprint and more efficient.

I've had a couple bugs/glitches but nothing major.
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Re: Windows 10 "upgrade"? haha
« Reply #74 on: July 31, 2015, 10:51:43 PM »
you need to change your Nvidia Geforce driver(microsoft edition)  to Microsoft basic display adapter driver first before you can install the windows 10 nvidia driver.

The Geforce driver(Microsoft Editon) is dog slow.
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Re: Windows 10 "upgrade"? haha
« Reply #75 on: July 31, 2015, 11:00:41 PM »
Well, I got on the idiot bus today.  Decided to pull the trigger on win 10 in place upgrade on my main machine.  I have the upgrades reserved on my two other machines even though only requested it on the least powerful one a few days ago.

Three times the install has stalled at 83% complete and 33% of configuration step.  I have no patience to let it run all night like some, cuz I know what the outcome will be.  I am an idiot.

I know Marv is right and I should postpone for 6 months or so but hey.  I guess I will wait a month or two and see if anybody comes up with a fool proof way to upgrade.

I am glad lots of you have had trouble free installs.  I guess that is what I get for buying all these old HP Elitebooks.

Very happy with Win 7 restored.  Hey the screen even looks cleaner and brighter, ha ha !
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Re: Windows 10 "upgrade"? haha
« Reply #76 on: August 01, 2015, 09:49:56 PM »
I started over.  MS made the iso images available so I downloaded the 64-bit English edition, used the MS Windows 7 boot media tool to create a bootable USB and went for a clean install.  This was much quicker but it fucked up yet again, this time for yet another reason:  my genuine Dell OEM Win 7 Pro key is fine for installing Windows 7 from the Dell media (naturally); it's fine for upgrading in place from Win 7 to Win 10 - everything is checked as genuine as expected; but Win 10 installer's phone home activation rejects the key for a clean install of Win 10.  I think I tried every which way and I suppose I could wait until Monday, do it again and call MS by phone and sort out the activation.  On the other hand Win 7 will get security patches until 2020 and I hardly ever use it so I just reimaged back to Win 7 and think I can live with that and my usual Debian and not worry about the latest interesting social experiment from Billy G.

It does remind me of when MS first introduced this kind of activation (I think it all started as WGA in an XP service pack or update).  I was one of those naughty people who ran both legit and pirated Windows systems.  The big day arrived and I tried to activate:  my fully legit XP Home (boxed, retail edition from a store) got identified as a pirate copy while my totally bogus cracktivated Pro edition from piratebay passed the test.  I don't care if RMS eats toejam or has weevils living on the breadcrumbs in his beard, he's OK with me.
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Re: Windows 10 "upgrade"? haha
« Reply #77 on: August 01, 2015, 10:18:19 PM »
I keep getting reminders to update. After reading some of these posts, I will put it off. Too many "oh this time it's going to be smooth and seamless" from MS. I've been using MS since DOS circa 1982. So been here for all versions of Windows. Always had issues of some sort when I decided to early adopt. Doing OK with 8.1 in desktop mode. I am wondering if they have fixed the classic Windows slow down that requires a re-install after a year or two. Hope so, as this is going to be it from here on out. No Windows 11, 12 etc. just updates. Please keep posting how it's going with Win 10.
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Re: Windows 10 "upgrade"? haha
« Reply #78 on: August 01, 2015, 11:35:37 PM »
I would still be pretty happy with Windows 2000 Professional if it was supported *snaps suspenders out and enjoys odd thrill as they twang nipples on rebound*
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Re: Windows 10 "upgrade"? haha
« Reply #79 on: August 02, 2015, 01:19:25 AM »
Quote from: Julian67 on August 01, 2015, 09:49:56 PM
I started over.  MS made the iso images available so I downloaded the 64-bit English edition, used the MS Windows 7 boot media tool to create a bootable USB and went for a clean install.  This was much quicker but it fucked up yet again, this time for yet another reason:  my genuine Dell OEM Win 7 Pro key is fine for installing Windows 7 from the Dell media (naturally); it's fine for upgrading in place from Win 7 to Win 10 - everything is checked as genuine as expected; but Win 10 installer's phone home activation rejects the key for a clean install of Win 10.  I think I tried every which way and I suppose I could wait until Monday, do it again and call MS by phone and sort out the activation.  On the other hand Win 7 will get security patches until 2020 and I hardly ever use it so I just reimaged back to Win 7 and think I can live with that and my usual Debian and not worry about the latest interesting social experiment from Billy G.

It does remind me of when MS first introduced this kind of activation (I think it all started as WGA in an XP service pack or update).  I was one of those naughty people who ran both legit and pirated Windows systems.  The big day arrived and I tried to activate:  my fully legit XP Home (boxed, retail edition from a store) got identified as a pirate copy while my totally bogus cracktivated Pro edition from piratebay passed the test.  I don't care if RMS eats toejam or has weevils living on the breadcrumbs in his beard, he's OK with me.

Windows 7/8 keys CANNOT be used to activate Windows 10. You MUST either do an upgrade install, and then have that generate the HW key, and then do a second clean install, or use Produkey to check the W10 key that was created for the upgrade, and then start over and use that. For the time being at least, there's no way to get around the double install requirement.

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