Microsoft Windows 10

[Bino]

The "Get Windows 10" icon has shown up on my Win7 taskbar...



Anyone out there have experience with this latest O/S from Microsoft?

[MrRiplEy[H]]

The "Get Windows 10" icon has shown up on my Win7 taskbar...

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Anyone out there have experience with this latest O/S from Microsoft?

Heh, so now the controversial update has activated.

I have used Win10 exclusively since oct/2014 and I like it far better than Win8

[Randy1]

Just saw the icon too.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

I have played AH with two computers equipped with Win10 (and its different revisions along the months) and my experience has been very good. On other games such as BF3 it was not so smooth, punkbuster stopped working for a while and the new browser is not able to run the web launcher at all. But that's not an issue since you shouldn't be using IE/whatever the new browser is called anyway.

[100Coogn]

It is to reserve your free upgrade from Windows 10.
It will download, when it's available. (done?)

Coogan

[Bizman]

Linking to my own comment in another thread about the same issue: http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,372607.msg4964161.html#msg4964161

[100Coogn]

Linking to my own comment in another thread about the same issue: http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,372607.msg4964161.html#msg4964161

Of course Windows 10 will have to be installed over Windows 7/8/8.1.  To install to an empty drive is simply invalid advice.  As I've said, the little icon in the taskbar
is only to reserve Windows 10.  It will download when it's ready.
Please relax, it's not the end of the world.  Just a bump in the road.

Coogan

[Bizman]

Of course Windows 10 will have to be installed over Windows 7/8/8.1.  To install to an empty drive is simply invalid advice.  As I've said, the little icon in the taskbar
is only to reserve Windows 10.  It will download when it's ready.
Please relax, it's not the end of the world.  Just a bump in the road.

Coogan

If you know for sure, could you please tell me where you've got that piece of information? I based my advice on a well documented fact about Vista and 7 including their Service Packs. Currently I'm writing this on my Win7 which I installed on a brand new empty hard disk from an upgrade DVD. And I'm old enough to remember that the 9x series upgrades had to be made over a previous version. So if you know for sure that Microsoft has changed their upgrading policy again please would you share the information? My sources haven't revealed any information about the final release yet.

My idea of installing on an empty drive is simply to leave the alternative of going back to the familiar version if the new release doesn't work as supposed. The latest news I've seen about 10 was problems with AMD graphics and if they don't get properly fixed until the launch there'll be a whole lot of less happy gamers.

[100Coogn]

If you know for sure, could you please tell me where you've got that piece of information? I based my advice on a well documented fact about Vista and 7 including their Service Packs. Currently I'm writing this on my Win7 which I installed on a brand new empty hard disk from an upgrade DVD. And I'm old enough to remember that the 9x series upgrades had to be made over a previous version. So if you know for sure that Microsoft has changed their upgrading policy again please would you share the information? My sources haven't revealed any information about the final release yet.

My idea of installing on an empty drive is simply to leave the alternative of going back to the familiar version if the new release doesn't work as supposed. The latest news I've seen about 10 was problems with AMD graphics and if they don't get properly fixed until the launch there'll be a whole lot of less happy gamers.

What I'm getting at, is in order for Windows 10 to be free for it's customers they have to already have Windows 7/8/8.1 installed.  If that's true, then installing on a clean hdd may or may not be an option.  This could be my lack of understanding, (wouldn't surprise me) but how would Windows 10 know that you have another version of Windows installed, if it's on another drive?

Coogan

[MrRiplEy[H]]

If you opt for the upgrade you get an activation key in the e-mail. After that you can (and should) do a clean install.

[715]

I've read that the Windows 10 upgrade comes complete with a (mandatory) free installation of Candy Crush Saga!  Such a deal!  (Ya, I know, you can probably delete it after the install.)

source: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/05/humanity-weeps-as-candy-crush-saga-comes-pre-installed-with-windows-10/

[100Coogn]

If you opt for the upgrade you get an activation key in the e-mail. After that you can (and should) do a clean install.

If that's the case, I couldn't agree more.

Coogan

[Bizman]

If you opt for the upgrade you get an activation key in the e-mail. After that you can (and should) do a clean install.

That's what I was thinking about as a possibility. At least the Win7 upgrade versions sold on optical disks include an activation key.

The one I have installed is "designed for Windows Vista" which I've never used in my computer and includes both 32 and 64 bits disks plus one activation key. I wonder what will happen the fourth time the key gets used, it's been installed on two machines so far.

As for a modern Windows 8 computer, doesn't the activation key get saved somewhere in the UEFI? At least that's the case in some brand computers, in case of a hard disk replacement the reinstall can find the activation key from within the computer, allowing a clean install. In such a case there'd be no problem to prove the existence of a previous version.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

That's what I was thinking about as a possibility. At least the Win7 upgrade versions sold on optical disks include an activation key.

The one I have installed is "designed for Windows Vista" which I've never used in my computer and includes both 32 and 64 bits disks plus one activation key. I wonder what will happen the fourth time the key gets used, it's been installed on two machines so far.

As for a modern Windows 8 computer, doesn't the activation key get saved somewhere in the UEFI? At least that's the case in some brand computers, in case of a hard disk replacement the reinstall can find the activation key from within the computer, allowing a clean install. In such a case there'd be no problem to prove the existence of a previous version.

Only the OEM computers store the key to the BIOS/UEFI. For us home builders nothing changes.

The procedure is familiar already from Windows 8. For a period of time you could purchase Win8 license for 40 bucks a piece. If you put in your details, you got an e-mail containing a product key. You could then download the installation ISO, dump it to your USB stick and install Windows using it. I got Win8 for my uncle and for myself using this method, now I'm kicking myself not to purchase more of those 40 buck licenses.

[Chalenge]

It would be really easy to do a system clone the day of the download, and then run a dual boot for some time (from separate hard drives). That would be well-advised anyway, since the first release of new versions has historically been less than superior in every case up until now.