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"You Can Now Upgrade to the Windows 10 Creators Update Early"
Yeff wrote:
On Thu, 6 Apr 2017 20:27:44 +0100, Andy Burns wrote: Yes I knew the setting was coming, but I was expecting it to default to powershell (from the insider rumours I'd heard) but it defaulted to keeping command prompt, which saved me the bother. Gotcha. I see "Settings : Personalization : Taskbar", containing a setting which affects Start. When it could have been put in "Settings : Personalization : Start". And that solves the Powershell versus Command Prompt problem, but still didn't have an effect on making Control Panels show up. I don't see a setting for that one. Maybe they hid it in the recycle Bin :-\ Paul |
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"You Can Now Upgrade to the Windows 10 Creators Update Early"
Rene Lamontagne wrote:
I just installed "Creator" 1703 (15063.13) All went well, I downloaded it to a 16GB USB 3 stick and installed from there, it installed in 31 minutes and I set all 5 security switches to Off, My control panel is fine as I had a shortcut on the desktop. By the way my command and Admin command prompts are still in the context menu and are working OK. So Far OK but too soon to tell. Rene It sounds like you've already run "winver" to verify it actually installed. There should be 15063.0, plus some updates have already been released for it (because it's frozen before it ships, and the updates come afterwards). I did a clean install in a VM, because my hard drive with all my ISOs on it was offline, and I needed *something* for a HomeGroup test. So I downloaded 15063 for my test VM. And the stuff was missing from the right-click start menu. Mine wasn't an upgrade install, more a clean install. I still have the VMs on hard drive for a few more days, so I can go take a look again. This is a comparison between the new right-click menu and the old one. https://s12.postimg.org/l7cxgl799/Creator_So_Far.gif Paul |
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"You Can Now Upgrade to the Windows 10 Creators Update Early"
"Monty" wrote in message ...
On Wed, 5 Apr 2017 15:48:12 -0400, Yeff wrote: http://www.windowscentral.com/you-can-now-upgrade-windows-10-creators-update-early "Microsoft has today opened the floodgates to anyone who's interested in updating to the Windows 10 Creators Update early by releasing an updated Media Creation Tool that does exactly that, update you to the Creators Update. The Media Creation Tool actually has two functions, upgrade a current installation or create new install media for clean installing on another PC." The direct download link is he https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10" Thanks for the direct link - I have now updated two 64-bit PCs and am downloading for a 32-bit update. The first two took about 1.5 hours each from start to finish. "Windows 10 Creators Update Common Installation Problems and Fixes" http://www.windowscentral.com/windows-10-creators-update-common-problems-and-fixes On my PC, I-5 2400 3.1GHz and 8 GB of ram, a 1 TB HDD Hitachi 7200rpm . Win 10 HE 64bit Took me about 5 min to dl the .exe file and another 45 min for it to install .. Then when a reboot was required, it took almost 2 more hours and I didn't have any other programs running except Avast. Overall, it was about a 4 hour process. I think my HDD must not be as fast as it should be. Many times the Disk is at 100%. I also noted that my System Restore was tuned off (after the update) and all Restore points were missing. Check yours after you install the update. No other noticeable improvements or worsening of programs after the install. Best of luck. -- Buffalo |
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"You Can Now Upgrade to the Windows 10 Creators Update Early"
"Buffalo" wrote in message news
"Monty" wrote in message .. . On Wed, 5 Apr 2017 15:48:12 -0400, Yeff wrote: http://www.windowscentral.com/you-can-now-upgrade-windows-10-creators-update-early "Microsoft has today opened the floodgates to anyone who's interested in updating to the Windows 10 Creators Update early by releasing an updated Media Creation Tool that does exactly that, update you to the Creators Update. The Media Creation Tool actually has two functions, upgrade a current installation or create new install media for clean installing on another PC." The direct download link is he https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10" Thanks for the direct link - I have now updated two 64-bit PCs and am downloading for a 32-bit update. The first two took about 1.5 hours each from start to finish. "Windows 10 Creators Update Common Installation Problems and Fixes" http://www.windowscentral.com/windows-10-creators-update-common-problems-and-fixes On my PC, I-5 2400 3.1GHz and 8 GB of ram, a 1 TB HDD Hitachi 7200rpm . Win 10 HE 64bit Took me about 5 min to dl the .exe file and another 45 min for it to install . Then when a reboot was required, it took almost 2 more hours and I didn't have any other programs running except Avast. Overall, it was about a 4 hour process. I think my HDD must not be as fast as it should be. Many times the Disk is at 100%. I also noted that my System Restore was tuned off (after the update) and all Restore points were missing. Check yours after you install the update. No other noticeable improvements or worsening of programs after the install. Best of luck. I just dl'd the .exe to my Computer and ran it from there, not from a DVD , etc. -- Buffalo |
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"You Can Now Upgrade to the Windows 10 Creators Update Early"
On 4/6/2017 4:11 PM, Paul wrote:
Rene Lamontagne wrote: I just installed "Creator" 1703 (15063.13) All went well, I downloaded it to a 16GB USB 3 stick and installed from there, it installed in 31 minutes and I set all 5 security switches to Off, My control panel is fine as I had a shortcut on the desktop. By the way my command and Admin command prompts are still in the context menu and are working OK. So Far OK but too soon to tell. Rene It sounds like you've already run "winver" to verify it actually installed. There should be 15063.0, plus some updates have already been released for it (because it's frozen before it ships, and the updates come afterwards). I did a clean install in a VM, because my hard drive with all my ISOs on it was offline, and I needed *something* for a HomeGroup test. So I downloaded 15063 for my test VM. And the stuff was missing from the right-click start menu. Mine wasn't an upgrade install, more a clean install. I still have the VMs on hard drive for a few more days, so I can go take a look again. This is a comparison between the new right-click menu and the old one. https://s12.postimg.org/l7cxgl799/Creator_So_Far.gif Paul Yeah, first thing I did was run Winver to make sure it did install, it all seemed to happen too quick. The control panel is missing from the right click menu but I keep a couple shortcuts around just for redundancy, I did set Command prompt to Powereshell and back to CMD just to see if it worked ok, and it does. Rene |
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"You Can Now Upgrade to the Windows 10 Creators Update Early"
On Wed, 05 Apr 2017 23:53:06 -0400, Nil
wrote: On 05 Apr 2017, Yeff wrote in alt.comp.os.windows-10: http://www.windowscentral.com/you-can-now-upgrade-windows-10-creators-update-early "Microsoft has today opened the floodgates to anyone who's interested in updating to the Windows 10 Creators Update early by releasing an updated Media Creation Tool that does exactly that, update you to the Creators Update. That's interesting... but I don't mind waiting. I don't mind waiting either. It's only five more days to Update Tuesday. |
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"You Can Now Upgrade to the Windows 10 Creators Update Early"
On 4/6/2017 2:11 PM, Paul wrote:
Rene Lamontagne wrote: I just installed "Creator" 1703 (15063.13) All went well, I downloaded it to a 16GB USB 3 stick and installed from there, it installed in 31 minutes and I set all 5 security switches to Off, My control panel is fine as I had a shortcut on the desktop. By the way my command and Admin command prompts are still in the context menu and are working OK. So Far OK but too soon to tell. Rene It sounds like you've already run "winver" to verify it actually installed. There should be 15063.0, plus some updates have already been released for it (because it's frozen before it ships, and the updates come afterwards). I did a clean install in a VM, because my hard drive with all my ISOs on it was offline, and I needed *something* for a HomeGroup test. So I downloaded 15063 for my test VM. And the stuff was missing from the right-click start menu. Mine wasn't an upgrade install, more a clean install. I still have the VMs on hard drive for a few more days, so I can go take a look again. This is a comparison between the new right-click menu and the old one. https://s12.postimg.org/l7cxgl799/Creator_So_Far.gif Paul How are you getting win10 to install in a VM? Way back when, I tried to get win7 installed in virtualbox to update to win10 to get the free digital entitlement for vbox. I was never successful getting that to happen. It just wouldn't activate. |
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"You Can Now Upgrade to the Windows 10 Creators Update Early"
mike wrote:
On 4/6/2017 2:11 PM, Paul wrote: Rene Lamontagne wrote: I just installed "Creator" 1703 (15063.13) All went well, I downloaded it to a 16GB USB 3 stick and installed from there, it installed in 31 minutes and I set all 5 security switches to Off, My control panel is fine as I had a shortcut on the desktop. By the way my command and Admin command prompts are still in the context menu and are working OK. So Far OK but too soon to tell. Rene It sounds like you've already run "winver" to verify it actually installed. There should be 15063.0, plus some updates have already been released for it (because it's frozen before it ships, and the updates come afterwards). I did a clean install in a VM, because my hard drive with all my ISOs on it was offline, and I needed *something* for a HomeGroup test. So I downloaded 15063 for my test VM. And the stuff was missing from the right-click start menu. Mine wasn't an upgrade install, more a clean install. I still have the VMs on hard drive for a few more days, so I can go take a look again. This is a comparison between the new right-click menu and the old one. https://s12.postimg.org/l7cxgl799/Creator_So_Far.gif Paul How are you getting win10 to install in a VM? Way back when, I tried to get win7 installed in virtualbox to update to win10 to get the free digital entitlement for vbox. I was never successful getting that to happen. It just wouldn't activate. No, mine wasn't activated. You could have tried some slmgr commands, to change keys, then entered the Win7 key. I don't know if the internal identifier used by the VM is considered unique enough for a Digital Entitlement. Paul |
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"You Can Now Upgrade to the Windows 10 Creators Update Early"
NY wrote:
"Paul" wrote in message news mike wrote: A blank USB flash drive with at least 5 GB of space And bewa if it's like other Windows installation tools, it won't recognise the existence of Sandisk USB flash drives. It ought to be modified so it will write to any drive (HDD, flash) that can subsequently be used for booting, rather than being restricted just to flash drives (only only some makes of those). I hit this problem when I was investigating how to reinstall Win 10 on a dead PC. I encountered the "USB drive not found" error even when I could see it in Windows Explorer, and researched the problem. It was an unbranded drive (embedded in a novelty penguin !!!) but I wonder whether they'd used Sandisk chipset. As it happened, I was able to resurrect the PC without needing to reinstall - a crucial system file had disappeared so I put back a copy from another PC. SanDisk Cruzer Edge 8 GB drives worked fine - created by Media Creation Tool - booted properly for UEFI and Legacy -- ....winston msft mvp windows experience |
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