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Windows 10

Download time for me was about what I'd expect for over two gig. Install time was long, because my laptop is old and slow.
 
alfaniner said:
If I was one of the early reservers shouldn't I be getting it sooner? How do you know when it's ready, and can you wait and tell it when to launch? (I still want to do a full backup first.)
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I didn't get any kind of notice that it was ready to go. I just clicked on the Windows icon that had been sitting in my task tray all this time and a window popped up advising me that everything was ready, and did I want to start the upgrade now, or wait.

I went ahead and pulled the trigger.

The whole thing took a couple of hours, mebbe.

ETA: Any downloading it needed was done over wifi, which may have contributed to the elapsed time.
 
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Upgrade took an hour and a quarter on my 2013 ASUS Touchscreen Netbook, no problems.

Played with Win10 for about an hour and changed settings to try to get the touchscreen UI to work as well for me as the 8/8.1 UI. It can't be made to work that way so I rolled back to 8.1.

Rollback has a few glitches, lost stock avatar haven't found it yet but I'm sure it's somewhere on the disk. Cancelled the reservation but so far on every reboot it is starting to re-download the 2G Win10 install. Probably need to uninstall/hide the windows updates related to getting Win10. Also got an email notice form the Microsoft store saying my number of PCs limit has been reached. Checked store and it only shows the single netbook so I'm ignoring that email. Other than those items it appears the rollback went OK.
 
Windows 10 seems to work fine for me, but the new browser is a pain. It imported all my bookmarks but put them in reverse order and there doesn't seem to be any way to switch them back except by doing it one at a time. Er, unless someone knows better?
 
I did it for science!


Well I did not seem to be scheduled for getting the upgrade today. So.... I googled "force windows 10 install" and low and behold there was a way.

But.. the 1st set of instructions I found didn't work for me.

However, I found a link to a download of the App you get for creating Install Media.

And running that App triggered a download of Windows 10 and let me create an install media.

Now comes the science part!

I had a choice of either creating the install on a flash drive (I have none), or by creating an ISO file that would then have to be burned onto a DVD.

I choose to create the ISO file.

I did not burn it onto a DVD.

Instead, I mounted it as a virtual disk and run the installation from there. I figured it was entirely possible that:

1) It would detect what I was doing and not allow me to proceed

2) Not realize what I was doing and on the 1st reboot during the setup process the virtual disk would not be there and the install process would go *splat* because it could no longer find the files it needed

3) It would setup everything it needed before the 1st reboot and never need to look at the install media again.

4) The Magicdisc program creating the virtual drive would keep on working throughout the installation and everything would be fine.


Low and behold option 4) wins!

The only thing I would call a hiccup in the whole process is that when it said it was done I was sitting at my desktop in 1024x768 resolution with a basic VGA driver.

Running the NVDIA Experience program found a new Windows 10 driver for me, and downloaded it. But the install option failed saying I needed to complete the "New Hardware Found" wizard first. Yet no such wizard or notification could be found.

So I rebooted...

And low and behold Windows was not yet done setting up and gave me a progress countdown before shutdown, and another on startup. And when it was done rebooting, I was at my desktop in 1920x1080 with the Windows 10 NVIDIA driver installed.

For Science!
 
Yuk. They'll need to remove the mandatory element before this nerd gets on board.

There is cause for concern with Windows 10 a launch, though, especially for gamers. This is because of something intended as a helpful thing – automatic updates. To ensure systems are up to date and secure from malicious attacks, Windows 10 will always download and install the latest patches, but that also includes hardware drivers.

A report over on Forbes details how nVidea users could potentially have issues thanks to the auto-updates. The nVidea GeForce Experience usually covers this, allowing users to install updates when they wish to, but Windows 10 removes that option. This has caused some users with multiple monitors and SLI (multiple card) setups to see their PCs crash and are faced with flickering screens and unresponsive monitors at best, and at worse being unable to boot into Win10 and forced into recovery mode.

At the time of writing these automatic updates are still mandatory, so if you are an nVidia user consider this a warning of potential aggravation during the launch period. There are reports of other programs and drivers also clashing with the updates, so be sure to read the Forbes report in full before making the switch.
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http://www.dealspwn.com/upgrading-windows-10-gamers-guide-big-switch-222025
 
You lucky, lucky lot. On my less old Lenovo Thinkpad I'm getting a "we're checking the install for your particular PC" message. My old Toshiba doesn't even have that. My reservation is confirmed but no more action than that :(
 
I've hit three other rollback problems. The photos metro app now has a duplication of the camera roll folder that can't be deleted (OneDrive error). The windows store still shows my Netbook as Windows 10 so I might not be able to get or buy apps from the store anymore. Google chrome got trashed causing it to duplicate all its bookmarks that of course synch across devices and then began to fail to start at all. I deleted all the duplicate bookmarks and went to bed. This morning when I fired up the system Chrome fixed itself and is running fine again, Google for the win!
 
Matthew Best said:
Windows 10 seems to work fine for me, but the new browser is a pain. It imported all my bookmarks but put them in reverse order and there doesn't seem to be any way to switch them back except by doing it one at a time. Er, unless someone knows better?
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Chrome. Firefox. Etc. Just don't tell people you're using IE.
 
I got a WIN 10 update for one of my WIN7 laptops, but no update for my Dell tablet with WIN8.1

Everything seems to work so far.
 
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