Upgrade to Windows 10?

MissCauthon said:
Nope it dosnt say, but i kept hitting the ACTIVATE button like the other person said and it FINALY did activate :) Kinda silly that your Windows 10 copy isnt even activated, and i just STUMBLED on that settings thing by chance. Now to figure out what my new cd key is for windows 10 so i can actualy do a fresh install.
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You don't get a cd key? You have to use the upgrade tool that you download to do a clean install?
 
Compsiox said:
I don't remember account stuff being in Windows 7.
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Ohh are you talking about the computer account thing? the administrator stuff account
<-- this gal is terrible at this stuff hahaha.

Elodie
Local Account
Administrator

is this it? i got you confused and was thinking about my microsoft email account lol.
 
The Dear Leader said:
If this goddamn Realtek HD Audio Driver reinstalls itself again I'm gonna be upset, I've uninstalled it 4 times and it keeps popping back up.
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I had to turn off auto driver installing for it to work. It gets in an endless loop otherwise.

Control panel/system/hardware/device installation settings
 
I had to use that manual install tool as well. The update tray tool didn't like my network drivers even though it was up to date. No problems after moving to 10.

Anyone else tried the Windows 10 version of Minecraft?
I noticed it performs much better than the stand alone for my laptop anyways.
Currently reinstalling Steam and a few games to mess around with.
 
Compsiox said:
You don't get a cd key? You have to use the upgrade tool that you download to do a clean install?
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Ill explained how it happened.

So i pressed the app thing, and went to windows upgrade. Then the windows 10 upgrade thing happened on its own. So i follow the steps.

It downloaded the files, then started the installation.
It did allot of things on its own. I was never asked for a fresh install or nothing like that. It just upgraded me to win 10. At the end it asked me to accept terms, FORCED me to accept the thing where it sends MS info on webpage i visit, things i do etc. It was either accept or back no choice lol. It did say tho that i could disable in Edge after installation.

After that i was in windows 10 with my same background i was in windows 7, no backups made of my old windows no nothing. So im a little confused...
 
SPDIF said:
Personally I think this has improved a lot over Windows 8. Pretty much everything a typical user will ever need is now in the Settings app. Unless I'm forgetting something I can't think of any reason why they'd need to access the Control Panel.
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I don't know. Things like changing resolution/refresh rate used to be just right click desktop and display settings. Now that menu will only allow you to change scaling and activate/deactivate monitors while the old menu is buried within control panel in a sub menu under a different option.

That's just an example though. I would prefer if everything from settings and control panel was in the same sub menu, and only have things like administrative tools that only advanced users need on their own menu.
 
Installed on my main computer... hopefully I won't have trouble putting it on my old computer too (they both have their own copy of Windows 7). I really regret buying Windows 8, never even opened the damn disc... Can I burn Windows 10 to a DVD or put it on a flash drive in case I want to reinstall or do a fresh install later?
 
So it seems that all upgrades to Win10Pro is getting the same activation key - VK7JG-NPHTM-C97JM-9MPGT-3V66T. Anyone can check this with slmgr /dlv command. Reddit thread.

This likely means that we can say goodbye to the theory of re-installing Win10 with an upgraded retail license to a different PC by extracting the activation key from the upgraded installation.
 
Iced said:
I feel like Windows 10 is some exclusive club I'm not being let into because I'm wearing flip-flops or something.

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I've had the $WINDOWS.~BT folder since 8:23 this morning, but it's only 20 KB in size. I've tried the whole delete items from SoftwareDistribution downloads folder and updating wuauclt.exe (or whatever) in command prompt, but it just doesn't take. Windows 10 icon is gone from the taskbar, too.
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Yeah this is getting kind of silly. I didn't see the need to do one of the forced upgrade methods before the 29th, but we're well into the day now and some of us still have to wait for MS to decide that we're in the "right wave" to actually start the download. If it doesn't start in the next couple hours I'm just going to try one of those forced download methods.
 
RandomSeed said:
I had to turn off auto driver installing for it to work. It gets in an endless loop otherwise.

Control panel/system/hardware/device installation settings
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The Dear Leader said:
If this goddamn Realtek HD Audio Driver reinstalls itself again I'm gonna be upset, I've uninstalled it 4 times and it keeps popping back up.
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So I rebooted my computer and the Realtek driver didn't reinstall. I think I'm good.
The essential steps seem to be uninstall the driver, reboot, let the driver reinstall itself, then roll-back the audio driver and uninstall the Realtek driver.

Is the mouse scroll wheel inconsistent for anyone else? It doesn't seem to scroll in Edge or in the Start Menu.
 
So, I have tired to install three times now using the instructions in the OP and I am still getting the 80240020 error. I have tired the fix listed in the OP, but that does not seem to have any effect. I have been trying to use the Upgrade option, so maybe I need to make a media disk for this to work. I am not sure and a bit lost as to what I should be doing to fix this.
 
What a wonderful upgrade... Thanks Microsoft...
The auto update is amazing, why should I want to have the option to desactivate it?
I mean... It's great how Windows continue downloading a patch for me to see how after each reboot the patch install gives me an error and it reverts the process with two more reboots.
 
paolo11 said:
Any gaming impressions on Windows 10 for these games?

A) Crysis
B) Crysis Warhead
C) Crysis 2 Maximum edition
D) Crysis 3
E) Witcher 1
F) Witcher 2
G) Witcher 3
H) Batman Arkham Origins
I) Batman Arkham Asylum
J) Batman Arkham City
K) Ultra Street Figher 4
L) Skyrim
M) Fallout 3 goty
N) Fallout New Vegas
O) Assassins Creed Unity
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Out of that list, I only have Witcher 3 but it virtually runs the same as it did on Windows 8.1 for me. I did have a random crash but Witcher 3 is very sensitive to my GPU overclocks so yeah.
 
dr_rus said:
So it seems that all upgrades to Win10Pro is getting the same activation key - VK7JG-NPHTM-C97JM-9MPGT-3V66T. Anyone can check this with slmgr /dlv command. Reddit thread.

This likely means that we can say goodbye to the theory of re-installing Win10 with an upgraded retail license to a different PC by extracting the activation key from the upgraded installation.
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They seem to have switched to just hardware IDs, yeah. But I am still wondering if just cloning the disk over to another computer and doing manual activation over the phone is still an option. I've had to do the phone activation two or three times when replacing faulty motherboards, but it always worked out fine. I just had to punch in a lot of numbers.
 
MissCauthon said:
Ohh are you talking about the computer account thing? the administrator stuff account
<-- this gal is terrible at this stuff hahaha.

Elodie
Local Account
Administrator

is this it? i got you confused and was thinking about my microsoft email account lol.
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No that's a local account. It would be your microsoft email account connected to the OS if not anything else. I haven't worked with Windows 7 in a long time. I wouldn't know how to connect it.
 
Ok I've finally got Windows 10 to work.

My main gripe so far though is that the desktop looks really crisp but when I open certain apps it looks like the text is 720p or something. Like really blurry?! What's that all about?!

I checked that clear type was on and it was.
 
SlickVic said:
Yeah this is getting kind of silly. I didn't see the need to do one of the forced upgrade methods before the 29th, but we're well into the day now and some of us still have to wait for MS to decide that we're in the "right wave" to actually start the download. If it doesn't start in the next couple hours I'm just going to try one of those forced download methods.
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dude

go here and download the media create tool: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

and just run it

There is no reason to wait people. This does exactly the same as "waiting" does.
 
My dad really doesn't like Windows 8.1 (because it's shit) so I might upgrade his computer to 10 and leave mine as 7 Pro. I love 7 and I don't want anything to change, also I don't game on PC so I have no need for 10. I have a year to make up my mind anyways so I will keep a track of peoples experience with it before I take the plunge on my own pc.
 
SlickVic said:
Yeah this is getting kind of silly. I didn't see the need to do one of the forced upgrade methods before the 29th, but we're well into the day now and some of us still have to wait for MS to decide that we're in the "right wave" to actually start the download. If it doesn't start in the next couple hours I'm just going to try one of those forced download methods.
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I tried it, that didn't work either.
 
FLAguy954 said:
Out of that list, I only have Witcher 3 but it virtually runs the same as it did on Windows 8.1 for me. I did have a random crash but Witcher 3 is very sensitive to my GPU overclocks so yeah.
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Hmm nice.. So atm the games running good are

Arkham Asylum
Fallout NV
Witcher 3


Hopefully Crysis trilogy, Arkham Origins and City, Witcher 2 and the rest of my list works well.
 
MissCauthon said:
Ill explained how it happened.

So i pressed the app thing, and went to windows upgrade. Then the windows 10 upgrade thing happened on its own. So i follow the steps.

It downloaded the files, then started the installation.
It did allot of things on its own. I was never asked for a fresh install or nothing like that. It just upgraded me to win 10. At the end it asked me to accept terms, FORCED me to accept the thing where it sends MS info on webpage i visit, things i do etc. It was either accept or back no choice lol. It did say tho that i could disable in Edge after installation.

After that i was in windows 10 with my same background i was in windows 7, no backups made of my old windows no nothing. So im a little confused...
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When you open your hard drive through explorer it doesn't have windows.old?
 
paolo11 said:
Any gaming impressions on Windows 10 for these games?

A) Crysis
B) Crysis Warhead
C) Crysis 2 Maximum edition
D) Crysis 3
E) Witcher 1
F) Witcher 2
G) Witcher 3
H) Batman Arkham Origins
I) Batman Arkham Asylum
J) Batman Arkham City
K) Ultra Street Figher 4
L) Skyrim
M) Fallout 3 goty
N) Fallout New Vegas
O) Assassins Creed Unity
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I'm curious about Skyrim (most played game) and AC Unity (for DX12 improvements) too. Currently play on Win 7 with a SSD. Don't want to upgrade and find Skyrim no longer works with mods like ENB =/
 
diggmcbadass said:
I don't know. Things like changing resolution/refresh rate used to be just right click desktop and display settings. Now that menu will only allow you to change scaling and activate/deactivate monitors while the old menu is buried within control panel in a sub menu under a different option.

That's just an example though. I would prefer if everything from settings and control panel was in the same sub menu, and only have things like administrative tools that only advanced users need on their own menu.
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Yeah, I'm sure that's the ultimate goal. Anyway, for what it's worth you can change the resolution from within the Settings app. It's just another click away after right-clicking and selecting Display settings:

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Sodding_Gamer said:
Ok I've finally got Windows 10 to work.

My main gripe so far though is that the desktop looks really crisp but when I open certain apps it looks like the text is 720p or something. Like really blurry?! What's that all about?!

I checked that clear type was on and it was.
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Sounds like display scaling. Set scaling to 100% and everything will look fine, if a bit small.
What's your screen resolution and screen size?
 
So anyone that is doing a fresh install, which way are you doing it?

Are you installing Windows 7/8 fresh and then just upgrading it? Or are you putting Windows 10 on a USB stick and not even messing with Windows 7/8?

I tried to put the Windows 10 Insider Preview on a USB stick but when I tried to install, it said something stupid about the type of hard drive that I had and would not let me. I ended up doing a fresh install of Windows 7 and then updating to Windows 10, then installing all drivers etc. I have a 1TB Samsung 840 Evo, so not sure why it was being difficult.
 
Having flash backs to Facebook when I go to the privacy tab. Ugh, I don't know if I can deal with this shit. Let apps access my e.mail contacts and sexual preferences? Sure why not? What could go wrong!

Everything set to on by default, really rubs me the wrong way. I was thinking about using Calendar and Mail but I'm having second thoughts now.
 
Darkstorne said:
I'm curious about Skyrim (most played game) and AC Unity (for DX12 improvements) too. Currently play on Win 7 with a SSD. Don't want to upgrade and find Skyrim no longer works with mods like ENB =/
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Bam!! That's actually a good point. Can any kind soul test Skyrim with ENB on Win 10? AC Unity as well.
 
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