"David Rance" wrote in message
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On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 10:40:00 SC Tom wrote:



"David Rance" wrote in message
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On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 09:20:59 SC Tom wrote:



"David Rance" wrote in message
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On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 02:20:38 Paul wrote:

David Rance wrote:

On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 15:20:30 Unicorn wrote:

It is unusual for Microsoft to be so late...
It's already 15 hours of 29/07/2015 in Europe - where is the
promised Windows 10 then ?

Look in C:\$Windows.~BT and you will find all the files there
waiting to be installed.

The contents of C:\$Windows.~BT are not immutable.

If you run the Media Creation Tool (to download and make
Win10 ISO9660), you may find the contents of that folder
get cleaned out.

If you like what you see in C:\$Windows.~BT, make
a copy some place safe.

I wonder what would happen if I clicked on setup.exe. Would it try
install Windows 10 even though it hasn't told me it's ready?

David


I'll let you know when mine is finished. I decided to try an upgrade of
my Win10 Insider Preview to Win10 RTM. I started setup from
C:\$Windows.~WS\Sources\Windows, and it seems to be upgrading right now.
It's 50% done, and it's been about 45 minutes so far. Looks promising,
though. We'll see, and I'll post back the results.

Look forward to it ....

David

It finished its 1652 reboots, and is now up and running. I see no
difference from the latest build I had (10240), and if I do a VER from a
command prompt, I get Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.10240], so I'm not
sure of anything really happened or not. On my System page (WinKey+Pause),
it shows as Windows 10 Pro (as it did before), and that "Windows is
activated" (as it was before). I got some new icons in my Quick Launch
toolbar, but those were the same ones I got with every previous build. I
use Classic Shell, and on previous build upgrades, I got a message saying
I needed to restart Classic Shell to configure it. No such message this
time.

I was running Win 10 up to the release just before 10240. I took that HD
out and replaced it with the original one (that had Win 7 on it which I
wanted updated.) So the RTM version is little changed from the insider
version? I suppose we should have expected that. With the release before
10240 it was still identifying itself as Windows 8.1 (according to
Belarc).

I can't say I'm disappointed, just that the whole process was certainly
anticlimactic :-( I think I'll reconnect my Win8.1 drive and see if it's
still activated (that was the OS I originally used for the Insider
Previews). That should tell me something. Or not . . .

That should be useful to know as I have various OSs on hard drives that
I've removed.

My computers still report that they're waiting to be validated. According
to MS that could be either (a) they're too busy, or (b) there are still
drivers that need to be updated. I wish they'd tell me which it is!

I wonder if MS decided to bring out 10 just as the holidays start (in the
northern hemisphere, at least) in order to minimise the number of
complaints from day one.

David

I put my Win8.1Pro x64 drive back in my laptop, along with the Win10Pro x64
one, and have the 8.1 drive set as primary. It booted up just fine, and
shows as still being activated, so no problems there so far.
I've had it set up this way from the beginning. I cloned my 8.1 drive to a
spare I had, removed the original drive, then upgraded the clone drive to
Win10Pro Tech Preview. After it was up and running and stable, I put my
other (original) 8.1 drive back in as primary, then press F12 on boot-up if
I want to go to Win10. By default, it boots to Win8.1.

My Win7HP x64 had the Upgrade icon yesterday with that same message, and now
it's gone. I'm almost assuming (yes, I know what "assume" means BG ) that
whatever little tweaks they did for a Win7 upgrade had been done, and I can
go ahead and do it, if I so desire (not right yet). MS also said they would
notify me when it's good to go, and I have not received it yet. I plan on
upgrading my Win7 as a last resort, if ever. I hate to part with it.

(And I was exaggerating a little on the number of reboots :-) )
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SC Tom