It's already 15 hours of 29/07/2015 in Europe - where is the promised Windows 10 then ?

"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 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 . . .
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SC Tom