Topic: Win 10 Free Upgrade

Pigdog · Reply #50 Posted: July 29, 2015, 11:44:34 am

Now Its not even coming up $:-\$ $:-\$

Pigdog · Reply #51 Posted: July 29, 2015, 01:55:35 pm

This just happened....

Should I manual install?

Apostrophe Spacemonkey · Reply #52 Posted: July 29, 2015, 02:03:01 pm

Click it, you know you want to.

Pigdog · Reply #53 Posted: July 29, 2015, 02:08:55 pm

Quote from Plain old Spacemonkey: July 29, 2015, 02:03:01 pm

Click it, you know you want to.

growl

Pigdog · Reply #54 Posted: July 29, 2015, 02:42:17 pm

Quote from Plain old Spacemonkey: July 29, 2015, 11:41:52 am

Quote from Pigdog: July 29, 2015, 11:05:58 am

grrr

Windows update is failing on one of my laptops as well.

Indeed it does look like the servers must be very busy.

any luck yet?

Apostrophe Spacemonkey · Reply #55 Posted: July 29, 2015, 02:53:15 pm

Quote from Pigdog: July 29, 2015, 02:42:17 pm

Quote from Plain old Spacemonkey: July 29, 2015, 11:41:52 am
Quote from Pigdog: July 29, 2015, 11:05:58 am

grrr

Windows update is failing on one of my laptops as well.

Indeed it does look like the servers must be very busy.

any luck yet?

I'm at work. I'll try tonight.

At home I currently have;

HTPC running Windows 10 preview.
Desktop with Win 8.1, quite happy with this so no hurry to upgrade.
Desktop with Win 7, takes ages to start up, so will be keen to upgrade this.

5 year old Laptop with Win 7, I don't really use it anymore, but I'm interested in upgrading it to windows 10 to see what kind of performance improvement it gets.

Pigdog · Reply #56 Posted: July 29, 2015, 04:13:42 pm

Keep us posted, I have an old school one (Dell latitude ET3) that could do with an upgrade.

Pigdog · Reply #57 Posted: July 29, 2015, 04:25:18 pm

Fix for the 80240020 error when trying to install Windows 10
Windows 10 installation folder is unfinished and/or corrupted just delete and start again.
1. Go into "C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download" and delete everything in that folder.
2. Now, run the command prompt as an administrator. Type in "wuauclt.exe /updatenow".
3. Go to your Control Panel > Windows Update and your Windows 10 should start re-downloading from scratch.

Apostrophe Spacemonkey · Reply #58 Posted: July 29, 2015, 04:31:02 pm

^ Thanks for that

Also, can now download a ISO from here
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

Kayne · Reply #59 Posted: July 29, 2015, 04:41:24 pm

It's still going to let me know when it comes out

Will things like steam / java break or should most applications still run "fine"

Apostrophe Spacemonkey · Reply #60 Posted: July 29, 2015, 04:45:10 pm

Quote from `Kayne: July 29, 2015, 04:41:24 pm

It's still going to let me know when it comes out

Will things like steam / java break or should most applications still run "fine"

I hope it breaks java forever, and as a result everyone will uninstall it.

Xenolightning · Reply #61 Posted: July 29, 2015, 04:55:50 pm

AWWW YISSS, MSDN comes through for me.

ISO'S FOR DAYYYZE

Pigdog · Reply #62 Posted: July 29, 2015, 05:18:05 pm

What are your thoughts on it atm?

Apostrophe Spacemonkey · Reply #63 Posted: July 30, 2015, 05:32:49 am

And then, it happened!

Xsannz · Reply #64 Posted: July 30, 2015, 07:55:56 am

Quote from Xenolightning: July 29, 2015, 04:55:50 pm

AWWW YISSS, MSDN comes through for me.

ISO'S FOR DAYYYZE

hmm you got the on demand one in you msdn ?? danm i dont pay enough clearly

Xsannz · Reply #65 Posted: July 30, 2015, 08:29:56 am

VLK keys just showed up on my msdn account.

one of the downsides from being an insider so long is now for my legitimate windows 8 keys in order to make sure i have no problems in future..

i have to still upgrade windows 8.1 installs to 10 to register my keys in the cloud.

guess ill fire up 2 windows 8.1 vms with my keys and then upgrade them to register them.

Retardobot · Reply #66 Posted: July 30, 2015, 06:32:12 pm

Zzzzz - hurry up.

Apostrophe Spacemonkey · Reply #67 Posted: July 30, 2015, 07:33:11 pm

Quote from Retardobot: July 30, 2015, 06:32:12 pm

Zzzzz - hurry up.

Might be faster to just download the ISO
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

Retardobot · Reply #68 Posted: July 30, 2015, 08:34:34 pm

Got it in the end by downloading the Media Creation Tool.

So far it's very pretty. Just going through and re-installing certain apps that are having a hard time after the upgrade.

EDIT: Massive pet peeve already. Snap Assist. I like it, being able to drag a window to the top to have it auto resize to full screen and being able to simply drag it away from the top and have it 'unclip'. However the feature doesn't like being turned on in a multiple screen environment. Dragging an app to my second screen has it behave like a dog trying to bring a long stick through a doorway. It stops and attempts to 'snap' to the edge of my main monitor.

Pigdog · Reply #69 Posted: July 30, 2015, 09:11:34 pm

What are your thoughts on Microsoft edge? mine seems kinda broken.

Retardobot · Reply #70 Posted: July 30, 2015, 09:17:56 pm

PEBKAC.

Pigdog · Reply #71 Posted: July 30, 2015, 09:40:10 pm

Quote from Retardobot: July 30, 2015, 09:17:56 pm

PEBKAC.

Unfortunately not, I do appreciate your concern though.

Speakman · Reply #72 Posted: July 30, 2015, 09:54:10 pm

Upgraded tonight from Win 7 Pro - Win 10 Pro. Upgrade itself was fine, but a few things annoyed me

- NIC wouldn't work after a reboot, but would after a cold boot. Beta NIC drivers released a couple of hours ago to fix... (Asus Sabertooth z87)
- I run a dual screen set up, 22" LCD on desk and 40" LED in corner. Windows detected it was a TV and autoscaled text and windows 150%. Interesting feature, but I don't like it in my use case (Spotify looked horrific upscaled). Would be cool for office-type stuff
- Corsair Link no worky (apparently work arounds available, sounds like a weekend job)
- Second screen on HDMI not detecting until driver update (Nvidia 970)

TLDR - have spare/up to date drivers handy before committing

Apostrophe Spacemonkey · Reply #73 Posted: July 31, 2015, 08:52:08 am

installed Win 10 on my 5 year old laptop.

The trackpad no longer works.

I have no mouse cursor.

Retardobot · Reply #74 Posted: July 31, 2015, 01:41:32 pm

Do you need to install the latest Synaptics drivers? http://www.synaptics.com/en/drivers.php

I'm having an aneurysm trying to upgrade Win10 on my GFs Win8 laptop. Getting the 'something happened' error. Have tried multiple fixes including setting the language and region to US (English). Downloads, verifies the install files then either says "something happened" or the setup window just vanishes completely.

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