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It's already 15 hours of 29/07/2015 in Europe - where is the promised Windows 10 then ?
"David Rance" wrote in message ... On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 09:20:59 SC Tom wrote: "David Rance" wrote in message ... 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 just 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 to 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 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 . . . -- SC Tom |
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It's already 15 hours of 29/07/2015 in Europe - where is the promised Windows 10 then ?
On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 10:40:00 SC Tom wrote:
"David Rance" wrote in message ... On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 09:20:59 SC Tom wrote: "David Rance" wrote in message ... 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 -- David Rance writing from Caversham, Reading, UK |
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It's already 15 hours of 29/07/2015 in Europe - where is the promised Windows 10 then ?
"David Rance" wrote in message ... On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 10:40:00 SC Tom wrote: "David Rance" wrote in message ... On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 09:20:59 SC Tom wrote: "David Rance" wrote in message ... 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 :-) ) -- SC Tom |
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It's already 15 hours of 29/07/2015 in Europe - where is thepromised Windows 10 then ?
On 30/07/2015 15:40, SC Tom wrote:
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 . . . Do you keep changing your HD more often? You must have plenty of time at your disposal!!!!!!!!. |
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It's already 15 hours of 29/07/2015 in Europe - where is thepromised Windows 10 then ?
On 30/07/2015 14:20, SC Tom wrote:
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. Windows system is becoming more like other items in the household like washing machines, TVs, fridges, etc. You just buy a brand new system and it should work straight away out of the box. That is why most people buy a new machine if the old one fails to boot up or a new OS has come out. There is no point in spending time and perhaps money trying to fix the old one because there may not be drivers for it. We don't open our TVs or a fridge or a washing machine, just to get it upgraded to "latest model" because a new model has come out in the shops, do we? I don't and in any case I don't have the time for it. |
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It's already 15 hours of 29/07/2015 in Europe - where is thepromised Windows 10 then ?
On 30/07/2015 11:49, David Rance wrote:
I wonder what would happen if I clicked on setup.exe. Would it try to install Windows 10 even though it hasn't told me it's ready? why don't you try it and tell us whether your machine explodes when trying to install Windows X again!! |
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