Upgrade to Windows 10?

master0fdeception said:
Am I the only one who hasn't been notified to upgrade yet??
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Nope

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Sid said:
You guys should try downloading the ISO https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
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What about the serial key? Do I use the Win7 key?
 
i went back to 8.1 after realizing that my turtle beach headset wont work like in windows 8.1.
Gonna wait a few weeks or months till they fix it.
 
So guys, i've an OEM license of W7. In 6 month I want to replace the Mobo with a new one, in every case i'm fucked up for the free license of W10 right?
W7 is tied to this mobo, the same will happen with W10?
 
So i can confirm that once i upgraded my Windows 7 PC to Windows 10 i was then able to swap out the HD to a new larger one (i bought a 500gb SSD for this) and was able to install Windows 10 on it and it activated itself.
 
My AMD card is always at full clock on the VRAM as well, I thought it was a problem on my end, also I don't remember having this problem on the technical preview.
 
VisceralBowl said:
I've been "trying again later" for a couple days now.

No fixes have worked. I'm can't sign into my MS account on any apps including Xbox. =(

EDIT: It lets me sign into my sister's MS account on the Xbox app. Why?
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I had some issues logging into apps. Try logging into your Microsoft account on the web and going to devices. Heres a direct link: https://account.microsoft.com/devices?lang=en-us

remove whatever is there, then try logging into your apps again. this worked for me
 
Zero issue for me so far going from Win 7 to Win 10. I'm loving Win 10 after a few days. The new browser is excellent as well.

I also really love the Xbox App. Finally getting close to that console feeling of community on the PC. The game DVR is really awesome as well. I'm super surprised it works as well as it does at launch and expect it to only get better.

One question though, I thought I remembered seeing talk of an Xbone controller working as a mouse and everything outside of games in Win 10. Is that planned for when he official Xbone wireless controller and drivers drop?

Overall very happy and seeing the same if not teeny tiny bit better performance in games.
 
Slightly OT: even in Windows 10, turning up the scaling on your displays makes half your applications look like a blurry, pixelated mess. Is there a way to fix this? Will there ever be?
 
None of my keys worked during a clean install (even after upgrading).

So I just skipped it and somehow my windows is activated. All the 3 times I had to do it.
 
Is there any way of turning off the tiles on the start menu? I didn't use the Windows 8 start screen and I don't much want to have a smaller version on the Windows 10 start menu.
 
Mohasus said:
None of my keys worked during a clean install (even after upgrading).

So I just skipped it and somehow my windows is activated. All the 3 times I had to do it.
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You shouldn't use the same key you had on Windows 7 or 8. It changes once you go to Windows 10. Use a key finder to write it down.

Cheeseman Battitude said:
Is there any way of turning off the tiles on the start menu? I didn't use the Windows 8 start screen and I don't much want to have a smaller version on the Windows 10 start menu.
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You can both turn the live tiles off and unpin them by right-clicking on them.
 
Mohasus said:
None of my keys worked during a clean install (even after upgrading).

So I just skipped it and somehow my windows is activated. All the 3 times I had to do it.
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Same thing happened to me today.

There was a key in system/control panel but I did suspect it wasn't right (too many 0's). That didn't work. I tried my 8.1 key. That didn't work.

Once I signed in with my Microsoft account it activated it. So I guess the license is tied to that. I have no idea how to get a product key though if you don't have Microsoft account.

Cheeseman Battitude said:
Is there any way of turning off the tiles on the start menu? I didn't use the Windows 8 start screen and I don't much want to have a smaller version on the Windows 10 start menu.
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right click and delete them all. once that's done resize the start menu.
 
Darkwater said:
Slightly OT: even in Windows 10, turning up the scaling on your displays makes half your applications look like a blurry, pixelated mess. Is there a way to fix this? Will there ever be?
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Doesn't look like it.

Without a doubt the worst drawback of having a UHD display.
 
Hmm, my PS4 controller isn't working with Windows 10. Input mapper isn't detecting a controller and when I plug the controller in it briefly lights up as if it were charging and then goes blank.
 
RobertoSAGuedes said:
Use the media tool, upgrade, then use a key finder to write down the new key if you want a clean install.
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No need to write the key, it's activated via hardware id automatically on fresh install. I guess you can if you're paranoid but not even sure it'll accept manual entry of the key in such a scenario.
 
LilJoka said:
No need to write the key, it's activated via hardware id automatically on fresh install. I guess you can if you're paranoid but not even sure it'll accept manual entry of the key in such a scenario.
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It will. I did that. And it's not tied to hardware. You can use it with another motherboard, as long as it is not being used in another PC.
 
ctw0e said:
I haven't had any issues so far. Never thought an upgrade would be smooth like this!

I only have two annoyances so far; the all-white windows and the fact that I can't have normal shortcuts in the Start-menu like used to.

I mean, why have all this empty space? It's a perfect space for the apps I want to use often.

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The annoying thing is in earlier versions of the 10 technical preview you could customise the start menu so much more.
 
Windows 10 is fine so far, but I can't find my product key at all in the computer. I only see Product ID, which is not the same. I want to right down the product key just in case something happens in the future.
 
Okay I give up. I guess I'll try to reinstall. Has anybody successfully reverted back to 8.1 with no issues?

EDIT: "We're sorry, but you can't go back" "The files we need to take you back to a previous version of Windows were removed from this PC."

So that huge Windows.old folder that got created has done absolutely nothing for me. Greaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat.
 
Darkwater said:
Slightly OT: even in Windows 10, turning up the scaling on your displays makes half your applications look like a blurry, pixelated mess. Is there a way to fix this? Will there ever be?
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Unfortunately it will require work from app developers to make them high-dpi aware...

What's happening is that many apps use bitmap based resources, and not vector based. When an app does not mark itself as high-dpi aware, Windows can only do a raw scale basically. And you can imagine what happens when you zoom in on a bitmap. Yup, blurriness. They need to either use vector-based, or be high-dpi aware and load in different scale/resolution assets based on the scale factor you have set.

It does seem like there are more and more updates to apps to make them high-dpi aware, but be sure you send the companies who make the apps you use a message saying you want high-dpi support.
 
Upgraded yesterday using the forced method mentioned, took about 15 minutes to upgrade once it downloaded, very impressed. Only driver I had to manually install was the Realtek HD Audio.

Very clean and quick OS.

Running lovely on my Alienware m11xr3
 
brickwalker0 said:
i can't seem to get anything Nvidia related to install. once the installation starts, it immediately gives me this error:

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any ideas?
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This happened to me. Restart your computer and unplug any USB flash drives. After I had installed windows 10 pro, it wouldn't let me adjust the display resolution till after said restart. Then afterwards installing the NVidia win10 drivers worked without a hitch.
 
So I was planning to wait to upgrade, but I woke up this morning to find my computer at 85% doing the upgrade process lol.

Guess I am in now.
 
ctw0e said:
I haven't had any issues so far. Never thought an upgrade would be smooth like this!

I only have two annoyances so far; the all-white windows and the fact that I can't have normal shortcuts in the Start-menu like used to.

I mean, why have all this empty space? It's a perfect space for the apps I want to use often.

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Fuck W10 start menu.

I purchased a license for startisback. Best $3 spent ever.
 
ktroopa said:
To clarify if you have this nvidia driver install failure you should.

1. Uninstall win 10 display driver
2. Run DDU
3. Reboot
4. Install Nvidia latest driver

Is that correct? If so, what is stopping win 10 from trying to replace your chosen driver or does it not bother you after step 4?
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DDU says it has temporarily disabled automatic updates when you run it, so Windows won't try any tricks after the reboot
 
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This is new. I found a solution on the internet (that isn't just make a new account and never use the other) but it asks me to press the "disconnect" button on my account settings page.

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If only it showed up...............

Any ideas?
 
shadow2810 said:
Fuck W10 start menu.

I purchased a license for startisback. Best $3 spent ever.
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I freaking love the Win10 start menu setup. Move some windows tiles apps there....
aka weather, email app (pools emails in all one location, which is awesome), calendar. Everything is syncing very well between my devices. Will be attempting an windows 10 install on my dell venue 8 pro tonight.
 
Iced_Eagle said:
Unfortunately it will require work from app developers to make them high-dpi aware...

What's happening is that many apps use bitmap based resources, and not vector based. When an app does not mark itself as high-dpi aware, Windows can only do a raw scale basically. And you can imagine what happens when you zoom in on a bitmap. Yup, blurriness. They need to either use vector-based, or be high-dpi aware and load in different scale/resolution assets based on the scale factor you have set.

It does seem like there are more and more updates to apps to make them high-dpi aware, but be sure you send the companies who make the apps you use a message saying you want high-dpi support.
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And then you have to hope that they actually implement proper high-dpi support, rather than just flagging the app as dpi-aware so it's not scaled and is instead just absolutely fucking tiny.

Yes, that means you, Blizzard.

Edit: I originally also mentioned Valve here, but checking again it looks like Steam doesn't support hi-dpi at all, it just has tiny text to begin with and has zero touch support. And as it turns out, is completely broken in tablet mode.
 
iceblade997 said:
They did say it was being rolled out bit by bit and would take several weeks / months to get to everyone.
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I've got a W10 folder on my hard drive that is over 5Gb. How hard could it be to roll out that final bit.
 
brickwalker0 said:
i can't seem to get anything Nvidia related to install. once the installation starts, it immediately gives me this error:

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any ideas?
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Honestly?

Clean install.

Stuff like this is an indication something within the os is fooked to the point nothing will fix.

Edit, see you fixed it. Apologies I have a jaded view, had loads of issues with 10 that a clean install fixed.
 
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