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I want to thank everyone else who has posted, rest assured I do read all the posts its just that Paul knows my situation very well and helped create my backup system and has helped me quite a bit in the past. Thanks again, Robert |
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Robert in CA writes: [] I think I understand,... were actually going after the registration key for Windows 10 without actually installing Win 10. Is that correct? Then at a later date I can install Not quite. In order to get your machine registered on the Microsoft servers as being entitled to run W10, you have to actually install W10. But you can revert to 7 immediately, by any means you like (the simplest probably being by putting back the drive you cloned before you started the "upgrade"). Win 10 side by side with Win 7 so I can continue to use Win 7 but can also use Win 10 if I choose. Do I have that right? More or less. I do have a spare drive so that's not a problem. I will have to re-read your instructions on how to do this. True, I have done repairs before but only with your guidance and help. I need to take this slowly so I understand what I'm doing and not mess anything up. Robert If you have only _one_ spare drive (and two computers currently running 7), then: A1. Clone computer 1 (a 780?) onto the spare drive. (If you want to be doubly sure all is well, swap in the spare and make sure it still boots, i. e. to make sure you have made a valid clone.) A2. Do the upgrade to 10. MAKE SURE IT IS ACTIVATED (or whatever the right term is); see Paul's image for how to do that. A3. Return computer 1 to W7 - either by restoring from the clone, or just using it, if it's similar in size to the original. B1/2/3 - as above, for computer 2 (a 4500?), using whichever drive is spare at this point. Provided both computers show their W10 installation is valid, registered, activated, or whatever the right term is (I can never remember which is which), you can go back to running 7 on them, then switch to 10 later (or to dual-boot I think, which is more complicated). -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf I'm the oldest woman on primetime not baking cakes. - Anne Robinson, RT 2015/8/15-21 |
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On Friday, June 14, 2019 at 11:45:48 AM UTC-7, Paul wrote:
Robert in CA wrote: I have a Dell XPS 8500, with Windows 7 Professional, SP1, with Spywareblaster, Malwarebytes, Avast , Windows Defender and Windows firewall. (1) TB HD Intel (R) Core (TM) i7-33-3770 CPU @ 3.40 GHz Ram 12.0 GB System type : 64-bit operating system I also have I have a Dell Optiplex 780 Tower, with Windows 7 Professional, SP1, with Spywareblaster, Malwarebytes, Avast , Windows Defender and Windows firewall. Seagate Desktop HDD ST2000DM001 2TB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" System type : 64-bit operating system and (external hard drives) (8500) WD BLACK SERIES WD2003FZEX 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive (780) Seagate Desktop HDD ST2000DM001 2TB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive With Win7 support ending on Jan 14,2020 how will that affect my computer's not being able download security updates etc.? Thanks, Robert Let's make a list: Security Updates no longer made for Windows 7 = No lengthy Windows Updates You AV fleet offers some coverage. Fleet of AV scanners you own = Supported for now, support gradually dropping away after a couple of years. The extent of the "danger" is a function of how many scrapes you and the computer have got into, over the years. Only you know how reckless you've been clicking stuff with the computer mouse... New versions of Web Browsers magically won't run on Windows 7 = It's hard to imagine this happening. It would take a concerted effort from MS to do this. ******* I could switch to Windows 10 for free = Yeah, you could, but: 1) Have to prepare for it. 2) Win10 is more of a pain in the ass 3) Win10 is more nosy. You have to remember to program all the sliders to OFF. 4) Microsoft rates its maintenance activity as more important than you being able to use the computer. 5) The 8500 will comfortably run Win10. The 780 meets the requirements but isn't a powerhouse when running Win10. The 780 would run Win10 like my typing machine runs Win10 - when Windows Defender goes crazy, the browsing could be a little slow. To make a transition plan, you have to figure out how desirable Win10 is, and what config to use for 8500 and 780. 8500 780 +------------------+ +------------------+ | Win10 over top | | Win7 (unchanged) | | of Win7 | | | +------------------+ +------------------+ 8500 780 +------------------+-------------------+ +------------------+ | Win7 (unchanged) | Win10 beside Win7 | | Win7 (unchanged) | | | (dual boot setup) | | | +------------------+-------------------+ +------------------+ And then there would be more diagrams, where we had the same sort of options for the 780. When you dual boot, the bootup can be slower. When you boot the "non-default" OS, the machine basically has to restart twice. It can feel like the process takes two minutes. "Win10 over top of Win7" is easy. 1) Make backup of OS drive to separate backup drive. This is your safety backup, in case something happens. 2) https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/soft...load/windows10 Get MediaCreationTool, if your machine has Win7 Professional you order up Win10 Professional x64. If your machine has Win7 Home Premium, you order up Win10 Home x64 disc. The 1903 image on offer, has a total of seven OS flavors, of which both of the flavors you need, will be on the one disc. 3) With Windows 7 running, mount the downloaded ISO9660 file that MediaCreationTool got for you. 3,967,483,904 bytes. But this article tells you that Win7 doesn't have a native mounter. While Win8.1 and Win10 do. You'll need to burn a DVD then, for sure, and the DVD will also come in handy for "clean installs". https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/wind...windows-vista/ Once the DVD is burned, open the DVD in File Explorer until you see Setup.exe and double click it. If all goes well, in an hour or two, you'll see a Windows 10 OS. There should be no boot menu in this case, because by running Setup.exe, we've done a "Win10 over Win7" install. When it asks for an account, the OS is "sneaky", and tries to rope you into giving up an email address. Use "Offline account" in the bottom left hand corner. https://www.tenforums.com/attachment...10-a-msa-1.jpg ******* The other kind of install, is to install Windows 10 beside Windows 7, so that both OSes are available from a boot menu. For one of those, you boot from the DVD using your computer popup boot menu, then select the "Custom" option and tell the computer that the blank partition you prepared for it, is where the OS is supposed to go. This requires using a Partition Manager application in advance, shrinking C: (you can do that from Disk Management actually), and creating a partition for Windows 10. If you use a 30GB partition, the installer will compress a lot of materials, which isn't good. If you used an 80GB partition, that's probably enough that it won't be "cranky". And we don't need to boot this DVD in UEFI mode, because your setups are legacy MBR and BIOS setups (UEFI+CSM BIOS would do, or a traditional legacy BIOS would work). I think your setup is utterly conventional, so I don't have to address a bunch of options. +-----+-----------------------------+ | MBR | Win7 | === shrink C: +-----+-----------------------------+ +-----+---------------+-------------+ | MBR | Win7 | 80GB Win10 | === create an empty 80GB partition +-----+---------------+-------------+ Boot Win10 DVD and install. Type license key into activation dialog. This web page will answer a lot of your questions about installing side-by-side by booting the DVD and doing a "clean install into a partition". If you were to accept standard options and not use Custom, it might "blow away" Windows 7 instead. You have to tell it what you want to do, for it to work out well. https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/...dows-10-a.html Now, I know this post is not in the level of detail you expect. I think you have the skill level to do it, but there are bound to be some rough edges where you get in trouble. So, you'd only modify one machine at a time, and use the second machine to dial out for help. As they say at the mechanics shop "you can pay me now or you can pay me later, but you'll pay me". Microsoft is like that mechanic, sitting in the corner snickering as you try to set this stuff up. It's a lot of nuisance just so you can have maintenance and continuity. Oh, and with your fleet of AVs, you'll likely need to uninstall Avira or Avast before doing some flavors of installation, as they can interfere with an install. This is most likely to happen in the "Win10 over Win7" case. The other stuff, like some "SpywareScanner", is less likely to blow up the install. Many install failures will roll back on their own if there is trouble. But, rollback takes an hour or two of disk grinding activity, and is "plenty annoying". I only put up with a rollback once, just to prove it works. I usually cut them off at the knees, and restore from backup, because that's a few minutes faster for me. So that's the situation. Paul On Friday, June 14, 2019 at 11:45:48 AM UTC-7, Paul wrote: Robert in CA wrote: I have a Dell XPS 8500, with Windows 7 Professional, SP1, with Spywareblaster, Malwarebytes, Avast , Windows Defender and Windows firewall. (1) TB HD Intel (R) Core (TM) i7-33-3770 CPU @ 3.40 GHz Ram 12.0 GB System type : 64-bit operating system I also have I have a Dell Optiplex 780 Tower, with Windows 7 Professional, SP1, with Spywareblaster, Malwarebytes, Avast , Windows Defender and Windows firewall. Seagate Desktop HDD ST2000DM001 2TB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" System type : 64-bit operating system and (external hard drives) (8500) WD BLACK SERIES WD2003FZEX 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive (780) Seagate Desktop HDD ST2000DM001 2TB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive With Win7 support ending on Jan 14,2020 how will that affect my computer's not being able download security updates etc.? Thanks, Robert Let's make a list: Security Updates no longer made for Windows 7 = No lengthy Windows Updates You AV fleet offers some coverage. Fleet of AV scanners you own = Supported for now, support gradually dropping away after a couple of years. The extent of the "danger" is a function of how many scrapes you and the computer have got into, over the years. Only you know how reckless you've been clicking stuff with the computer mouse... New versions of Web Browsers magically won't run on Windows 7 = It's hard to imagine this happening. It would take a concerted effort from MS to do this. ******* I could switch to Windows 10 for free = Yeah, you could, but: 1) Have to prepare for it. 2) Win10 is more of a pain in the ass 3) Win10 is more nosy. You have to remember to program all the sliders to OFF. 4) Microsoft rates its maintenance activity as more important than you being able to use the computer. 5) The 8500 will comfortably run Win10. The 780 meets the requirements but isn't a powerhouse when running Win10. The 780 would run Win10 like my typing machine runs Win10 - when Windows Defender goes crazy, the browsing could be a little slow. To make a transition plan, you have to figure out how desirable Win10 is, and what config to use for 8500 and 780. 8500 780 +------------------+ +------------------+ | Win10 over top | | Win7 (unchanged) | | of Win7 | | | +------------------+ +------------------+ 8500 780 +------------------+-------------------+ +------------------+ | Win7 (unchanged) | Win10 beside Win7 | | Win7 (unchanged) | | | (dual boot setup) | | | +------------------+-------------------+ +------------------+ And then there would be more diagrams, where we had the same sort of options for the 780. When you dual boot, the bootup can be slower. When you boot the "non-default" OS, the machine basically has to restart twice. It can feel like the process takes two minutes. "Win10 over top of Win7" is easy. 1) Make backup of OS drive to separate backup drive. This is your safety backup, in case something happens. 2) https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/soft...load/windows10 Get MediaCreationTool, if your machine has Win7 Professional you order up Win10 Professional x64. If your machine has Win7 Home Premium, you order up Win10 Home x64 disc. The 1903 image on offer, has a total of seven OS flavors, of which both of the flavors you need, will be on the one disc. 3) With Windows 7 running, mount the downloaded ISO9660 file that MediaCreationTool got for you. 3,967,483,904 bytes. But this article tells you that Win7 doesn't have a native mounter. While Win8.1 and Win10 do. You'll need to burn a DVD then, for sure, and the DVD will also come in handy for "clean installs". https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/wind...windows-vista/ Once the DVD is burned, open the DVD in File Explorer until you see Setup.exe and double click it. If all goes well, in an hour or two, you'll see a Windows 10 OS. There should be no boot menu in this case, because by running Setup.exe, we've done a "Win10 over Win7" install. When it asks for an account, the OS is "sneaky", and tries to rope you into giving up an email address. Use "Offline account" in the bottom left hand corner. https://www.tenforums.com/attachment...10-a-msa-1.jpg ******* The other kind of install, is to install Windows 10 beside Windows 7, so that both OSes are available from a boot menu. For one of those, you boot from the DVD using your computer popup boot menu, then select the "Custom" option and tell the computer that the blank partition you prepared for it, is where the OS is supposed to go. This requires using a Partition Manager application in advance, shrinking C: (you can do that from Disk Management actually), and creating a partition for Windows 10. If you use a 30GB partition, the installer will compress a lot of materials, which isn't good. If you used an 80GB partition, that's probably enough that it won't be "cranky". And we don't need to boot this DVD in UEFI mode, because your setups are legacy MBR and BIOS setups (UEFI+CSM BIOS would do, or a traditional legacy BIOS would work). I think your setup is utterly conventional, so I don't have to address a bunch of options. +-----+-----------------------------+ | MBR | Win7 | === shrink C: +-----+-----------------------------+ +-----+---------------+-------------+ | MBR | Win7 | 80GB Win10 | === create an empty 80GB partition +-----+---------------+-------------+ Boot Win10 DVD and install. Type license key into activation dialog. This web page will answer a lot of your questions about installing side-by-side by booting the DVD and doing a "clean install into a partition". If you were to accept standard options and not use Custom, it might "blow away" Windows 7 instead. You have to tell it what you want to do, for it to work out well. https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/...dows-10-a.html Now, I know this post is not in the level of detail you expect. I think you have the skill level to do it, but there are bound to be some rough edges where you get in trouble. So, you'd only modify one machine at a time, and use the second machine to dial out for help. As they say at the mechanics shop "you can pay me now or you can pay me later, but you'll pay me". Microsoft is like that mechanic, sitting in the corner snickering as you try to set this stuff up. It's a lot of nuisance just so you can have maintenance and continuity. Oh, and with your fleet of AVs, you'll likely need to uninstall Avira or Avast before doing some flavors of installation, as they can interfere with an install. This is most likely to happen in the "Win10 over Win7" case. The other stuff, like some "SpywareScanner", is less likely to blow up the install. Many install failures will roll back on their own if there is trouble. But, rollback takes an hour or two of disk grinding activity, and is "plenty annoying". I only put up with a rollback once, just to prove it works. I usually cut them off at the knees, and restore from backup, because that's a few minutes faster for me. So that's the situation. Paul I started to re-read your instructions,.. so 'if' I want to install Win 10 side by side Win 7 do I still need to get the Media Creation tool? Also I did not see clearly where I'm suppose to download for making a Win 8 DVD. Am I using that DVD to boot into custom? I need to know how to configure my partition if I'm going to do this and where am I downloading Win 10 to put in the partition? So far I've only loaded the Win8 CD to get to custom settings. I make monthly backups so that's no problem but creating new partitions etc. I'm still unsure of Win10 and as you pointed out Win10 has allot of problems which is why I wish to have Win7 and Win10 side by side so that I can continue to use Win 7 for as long as possible. I wish Microsoft would leave well enough alone. Thanks, Robert Robert |
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On Sun, 16 Jun 2019 01:18:38 -0400, Paul
wrote: wrote: On Sat, 15 Jun 2019 15:17:19 -0400, Paul wrote: Robert in CA wrote: So if I put Win 10 over Win 7 I will be actually operating Win 10 and won't even see Win 7 anymore correct? That's correct. Windows 7 is thrown into C:\Windows.old and after ten days, the file set in there is deleted automatically by Windows 10. For that ten day period, there is a "revert" button you can use, to uninstall Windows 10 and move Windows.old to Windows (logically speaking). By and large, ignoring those details, when you do "Win10 over Win7", then Windows 7 is gone. It's the "Windows 10 beside Windows 7" option that makes both OSes available, but takes up extra space, because there are two separate partitions that function as a C: when they're in use. Perhaps a wise man would copy that onto some portable media and stuff it away. (assuming you could restore it and "revert") I am still a huge fan of using another drive to install a new OS, putting my original in a safe place. (or making a clone if it is an upgrade situation). Then you are simply swapping a cable to "revert". I have changed my old XT drive in this machine to "C:" a couple times now. No, don't do that :-) A backup of the original Win7 setup is safer for the purposes of "revert". Note that there have been reports of revert not being "perfect", and sometimes your programs go missing! Paul I didn't do anything to the 7 drive. I just booted the XP drive, did what I wanted to do (mostly recovering stuff) and plugged the 7 back in. BTW I still have not found the missing link to get that NFPA program running so I am thinking it might be in a hidden registry entry like you suggested. |
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I think I understand,... were actually going after the registration key for Windows 10 without actually installing Win 10. Is that correct? Then at a later date I can install Win 10 side by side with Win 7 so I can continue to use Win 7 but can also use Win 10 if I choose. Do I have that right? I do have a spare drive so that's not a problem. I will have to re-read your instructions on how to do this. True, I have done repairs before but only with your guidance and help. I need to take this slowly so I understand what I'm doing and not mess anything up. Robert Because this effort is largely "throwaway", that's why I suggested cloning the existing C: drive over to the spare you have, so that when the Win10 install is finished on the spare, the spare can be erased. All that the exercise does, is create the license key on the Microsoft server, which will be used at a later date. Since the serial numbers on the computer won't change, if Win10 is ever installed again, now it will have a key waiting for it, to complete activation. When you have "Win10 over Win7" booted, you can try out the menus and so on. Before you wave goodbye to it, shut down Win10 (from the power button thing in the menus), take out the spare drive, and put the original drive (with Win7) back in the machine. So that nothing is changed. While installing Windows 10 (using setup.exe off the DVD since there is no ISO mounter in Win7), only the spare drive should be present and plugged in. This is to ensure nothing can harm the original drive while this install happens. You want to do the procedure on both machines, so there is a 8500-specific key for the 8500 and a 780-specific key for the 780. And based on the day I've had today, I'm getting less and less interested in foisting Win10 on you :-) I had a lot of trouble today, backing up Win10 with Macrium. I had to update my 6.3 version of Macrium to 6.3.1685 so that a backup of Win10 1903 would complete. Until I did that, I was getting "Error 9". And even after upgrading the OS version from 1809 to 1903, the EventViewer still wouldn't work properly. But in small print, I saw which file it was complaining about, a view_1.xml file, that when I deleted it, the EventViewer custom view started working again. Just about everything I do, I'm fixin stuff... Paul |
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I started to re-read your instructions,.. so 'if' I want to install Win 10 side by side Win 7 do I still need to get the Media Creation tool? Also I did not see clearly where I'm suppose to download for making a Win 8 DVD. Am I using that DVD to boot into custom? I need to know how to configure my partition if I'm going to do this and where am I downloading Win 10 to put in the partition? So far I've only loaded the Win8 CD to get to custom settings. I make monthly backups so that's no problem but creating new partitions etc. I'm still unsure of Win10 and as you pointed out Win10 has allot of problems which is why I wish to have Win7 and Win10 side by side so that I can continue to use Win 7 for as long as possible. I wish Microsoft would leave well enough alone. Thanks, Robert Robert 1) You do *not* need a Win8 DVD. Not once is Windows 8 mentioned in any of these procedures! Relax :-) 2) Using the MediaCreationTool, you can make a DVD. The problem is, if you just downloaded the ISO9660 file, Windows 7 doesn't have a built-in ISO mounter. Otherwise, if it did, I could save you on wasting one blank DVD to make an installer DVD. By making the DVD, you'll have media you can boot for emergencies (you can run CHKDSK from there, something I was doing today). The MediaCreationTool can do three things: Make a USB stick with Win10 installer on it. Make a DVD with Win10 installer on it (I think it uses IMAP2 for that, and the missing feature from IMAP2, is I don't think it knows how to erase DVD-RW or DVD+RW. But it should work with DVD-R or DVD+R, as far as I know. Just save as an ISO9660 file = Windows10.iso The DVD is relatively slow, but so is the decompressor on the CPU, so it really isn't a disadvantage to make the DVD for this. It only ****es people off, it isn't such a bad format after all. 3) When the day comes that you want to do "side-by-side" install, you'll already have your key generated in advance, so the install will automatically activate. To do side-by-side, you need to: a) shrink the existing C: to a smaller size. Give Win10, say, 100GB of space. b) In the gap opened by shrinking C:, create an NTFS partition using Disk Management. You can label it Windows10 if you want, but the installer will only erase the partition and remove the label, so don't get too attached to your custom label. You can put the label back later. c) Now that those steps have been done using the Windows 7 OS, now the real install starts. Shut down Windows 7. d) Power up the machine and insert the Win10 DVD. Follow the instructions until you see a Custom option. https://www.tenforums.com/attachment...windows_10.jpg ( https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/...dows-10-a.html ) e) Highlight the blank partition. There might be three other partitions related to your previous setup. The fourth partition is where Windows 10 will go. https://www.tenforums.com/attachment...-10-a-uefi.jpg Note that it is highly likely that there won't be enough partitions. Don't panic. You can make an Extended/Logical for Windows 10. Only the first OS has to go into a Primary partition. Other OSes can go into Logical partitions. It's the booting partition that has to be a Primary. You should review the current Win7 disk setup, to determine what kind of partition work needs to be done before the install. f) OK, having highlighted the blank partition, and hit Next, now there will be a ton of other stuff to do. But the rest of it will be easy. Just remember to set up an Offline account first. If you want to add an MSA some day (a "Microsoft Account"), you can do that later. Anyway, you've got enough to do now, just to secure your license keys... The side-by-side, you can save that for a day or two later. HTH, Paul |
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writes: [] And based on the day I've had today, I'm getting less and less interested in foisting Win10 on you :-) I had a lot of trouble today, backing up Win10 with Macrium. I had to update my 6.3 version of Macrium to 6.3.1685 so that a backup of Win10 1903 would complete. Until I did that, I was getting "Error 9". [] Was that running Macrium from within W10, or booting from a Macrium CD? I've imaged my friend's 10 using Macrium 5 booted from CD, though that was some while ago and I don't know if current W10 (1903 is it called?) would still complete imaging. (Or were you doing something other than imaging?) John -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf I long for the commercialised Christmas of the 1970s. It's got so religious now, it's lost its true meaning. - Mike [{at}ostic.demon.co.uk], 2003-12-24 |
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On Saturday, June 15, 2019 at 10:49:14 PM UTC-7, Paul wrote:
Robert in CA wrote: I started to re-read your instructions,.. so 'if' I want to install Win 10 side by side Win 7 do I still need to get the Media Creation tool? Also I did not see clearly where I'm suppose to download for making a Win 8 DVD. Am I using that DVD to boot into custom? I need to know how to configure my partition if I'm going to do this and where am I downloading Win 10 to put in the partition? So far I've only loaded the Win8 CD to get to custom settings. I make monthly backups so that's no problem but creating new partitions etc. I'm still unsure of Win10 and as you pointed out Win10 has allot of problems which is why I wish to have Win7 and Win10 side by side so that I can continue to use Win 7 for as long as possible. I wish Microsoft would leave well enough alone. Thanks, Robert Robert 1) You do *not* need a Win8 DVD. Not once is Windows 8 mentioned in any of these procedures! Relax :-) 2) Using the MediaCreationTool, you can make a DVD. The problem is, if you just downloaded the ISO9660 file, Windows 7 doesn't have a built-in ISO mounter. Otherwise, if it did, I could save you on wasting one blank DVD to make an installer DVD. By making the DVD, you'll have media you can boot for emergencies (you can run CHKDSK from there, something I was doing today). The MediaCreationTool can do three things: Make a USB stick with Win10 installer on it. Make a DVD with Win10 installer on it (I think it uses IMAP2 for that, and the missing feature from IMAP2, is I don't think it knows how to erase DVD-RW or DVD+RW. But it should work with DVD-R or DVD+R, as far as I know. Just save as an ISO9660 file = Windows10.iso The DVD is relatively slow, but so is the decompressor on the CPU, so it really isn't a disadvantage to make the DVD for this. It only ****es people off, it isn't such a bad format after all. 3) When the day comes that you want to do "side-by-side" install, you'll already have your key generated in advance, so the install will automatically activate. To do side-by-side, you need to: a) shrink the existing C: to a smaller size. Give Win10, say, 100GB of space. b) In the gap opened by shrinking C:, create an NTFS partition using Disk Management. You can label it Windows10 if you want, but the installer will only erase the partition and remove the label, so don't get too attached to your custom label. You can put the label back later. c) Now that those steps have been done using the Windows 7 OS, now the real install starts. Shut down Windows 7. d) Power up the machine and insert the Win10 DVD. Follow the instructions until you see a Custom option. https://www.tenforums.com/attachment...windows_10.jpg ( https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/...dows-10-a.html ) e) Highlight the blank partition. There might be three other partitions related to your previous setup. The fourth partition is where Windows 10 will go. https://www.tenforums.com/attachment...-10-a-uefi.jpg Note that it is highly likely that there won't be enough partitions. Don't panic. You can make an Extended/Logical for Windows 10. Only the first OS has to go into a Primary partition. Other OSes can go into Logical partitions. It's the booting partition that has to be a Primary. You should review the current Win7 disk setup, to determine what kind of partition work needs to be done before the install. f) OK, having highlighted the blank partition, and hit Next, now there will be a ton of other stuff to do. But the rest of it will be easy. Just remember to set up an Offline account first. If you want to add an MSA some day (a "Microsoft Account"), you can do that later. Anyway, you've got enough to do now, just to secure your license keys... The side-by-side, you can save that for a day or two later. HTH, Paul I started to get the MediaCreationTool and was going to put it on my flash key but it said, Windows 10 setup so I cancelled it. I re-read the posts,. what about using Linux, Unix or Ubuntu? I know I can keep using Win7 but I'm just thinking long term like I did by buying the power supplies so am thinking of a backup OS just in case. I can still of course get the Win10 key as a matter of course while I still can. What do you think? Thanks Robert |
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I started to get the MediaCreationTool and was going to put it on my flash key but it said, Windows 10 setup so I cancelled it. I re-read the posts,. what about using Linux, Unix or Ubuntu? I know I can keep using Win7 but I'm just thinking long term like I did by buying the power supplies so am thinking of a backup OS just in case. I can still of course get the Win10 key as a matter of course while I still can. What do you think? Thanks Robert There should be an option to "create media for another computer". Don't let the "scary intro" bother you. The way these work, is there is *always* a confirmation screen, that summarizes what's going to happen if you click "Next", so it won't sneak up on you and destroy the computer. https://i.postimg.cc/mkcQnjTC/Media-...n-Tool1903.gif Paul |
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On Sunday, June 16, 2019 at 3:28:48 PM UTC-7, Paul wrote:
Robert in CA wrote: I started to get the MediaCreationTool and was going to put it on my flash key but it said, Windows 10 setup so I cancelled it. I re-read the posts,. what about using Linux, Unix or Ubuntu? I know I can keep using Win7 but I'm just thinking long term like I did by buying the power supplies so am thinking of a backup OS just in case. I can still of course get the Win10 key as a matter of course while I still can. What do you think? Thanks Robert There should be an option to "create media for another computer". Don't let the "scary intro" bother you. The way these work, is there is *always* a confirmation screen, that summarizes what's going to happen if you click "Next", so it won't sneak up on you and destroy the computer. https://i.postimg.cc/mkcQnjTC/Media-...n-Tool1903.gif Paul I tried to follow your instructions, but I don't understand what you mean by double clicking or using Imagineburn to open the ISO file. I see no ISO file. I do not know if I'm doing this correctly and I have to login as Administrator to do this. Again, I am leery of doing this if I have to go to the Admin Account. http://i66.tinypic.com/9qkx00.jpg http://i66.tinypic.com/2uylk77.jpg http://i65.tinypic.com/4r48r5.jpg http://i68.tinypic.com/vcyxw4.jpg http://i65.tinypic.com/2vdn1pu.jpg Should I login as Admin and proceed? Thanks, Robert |
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Robert in CA wrote:
On Sunday, June 16, 2019 at 3:28:48 PM UTC-7, Paul wrote: Robert in CA wrote: I started to get the MediaCreationTool and was going to put it on my flash key but it said, Windows 10 setup so I cancelled it. I re-read the posts,. what about using Linux, Unix or Ubuntu? I know I can keep using Win7 but I'm just thinking long term like I did by buying the power supplies so am thinking of a backup OS just in case. I can still of course get the Win10 key as a matter of course while I still can. What do you think? Thanks Robert There should be an option to "create media for another computer". Don't let the "scary intro" bother you. The way these work, is there is *always* a confirmation screen, that summarizes what's going to happen if you click "Next", so it won't sneak up on you and destroy the computer. https://i.postimg.cc/mkcQnjTC/Media-...n-Tool1903.gif Paul I tried to follow your instructions, but I don't understand what you mean by double clicking or using Imagineburn to open the ISO file. I see no ISO file. I do not know if I'm doing this correctly and I have to login as Administrator to do this. Again, I am leery of doing this if I have to go to the Admin Account. http://i66.tinypic.com/9qkx00.jpg http://i66.tinypic.com/2uylk77.jpg http://i65.tinypic.com/4r48r5.jpg http://i68.tinypic.com/vcyxw4.jpg http://i65.tinypic.com/2vdn1pu.jpg Should I login as Admin and proceed? Thanks, Robert Do you use a "limited account" normally ? If the tool wanted to be elevated, it would have put up a UAC box confirming that it would be using administrator group privileges. If you use the Accounts control panel, it may state whether your current login user belongs to the Administrator Group or not. There are several account types, and this is a sample. 1000 - User Rob, belongs to Administrators Group The first account created on the machine, usually belongs to Administrator group, because MS doesn't want you to lose the ability to do Admin stuff. 1001 - If you made a second account, the second account could belong to Administrator Group too. Or you could remove the Administrator Group and this would be a "LimitedRob" account. Such a Limited User, cannot install software, because without Admin they can't do stuff like Impersonate System or perhaps, get a TrustedInstaller token. 500 - Real administrator. On modern Windows this account is disabled. If you enable the account, you should set a decent password for it. Logging in as the 500 account, leaves you elevated at all times. If you run the browser, watch Yahoo flash movies, if the browser is exploited, the whole machine could easily be tipped over. If you run as 1000 in the example, while you belong to Administrator group, the UAC prompt determine when the program is "elevated". To run Firefox, you don't see the UAC box, and Firefox runs "un-elevated". If the browser is exploited, the damage could be less. On the 1001 account in the example, the user can never elevate, so running Firefox is the same as the previous paragraph. More likely to limit damage if there is an exploit on the loose. Note that the numbers above (the ones in the 1000 range) are only an example. And sometimes the numbers are assigned slightly differently. There is only one "500" though. The account 1000 in the example, offers the flexibility via the usage of the UAC box, of running as Administrator Group, or not. And that account provides safety and power at the same time. The account 1001 in my example, is for "keeping the kids safe". To limit the stuff they can get into (via TakeOwn), removing their Administrator Group membership ensures they can get into less mischief. Review your account setup, and determine which case of the above, applies to your current account. I don't typically recommend logging in as "500", as the "1000" in the example is just as effective when the UAC box is acknowledged. WinXP didn't have a UAC box, and if you belonged to the Administrator Group there, it was always enabled. You could probably use the "droprights" or similar program (third party) to de-elevate. ******* Summary: You can log in as anything you want. Review the Accounts control panel first, and see how many accounts you have, and which one is "the right size" for this job. whoami /user /priv A privilege list with four lines, might be a limited one, while a privilege list with maybe fifteen items could be Administrator Group. Paul |
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On Monday, June 17, 2019 at 8:14:38 AM UTC-7, Paul wrote:
Robert in CA wrote: On Sunday, June 16, 2019 at 3:28:48 PM UTC-7, Paul wrote: Robert in CA wrote: I started to get the MediaCreationTool and was going to put it on my flash key but it said, Windows 10 setup so I cancelled it. I re-read the posts,. what about using Linux, Unix or Ubuntu? I know I can keep using Win7 but I'm just thinking long term like I did by buying the power supplies so am thinking of a backup OS just in case. I can still of course get the Win10 key as a matter of course while I still can. What do you think? Thanks Robert There should be an option to "create media for another computer". Don't let the "scary intro" bother you. The way these work, is there is *always* a confirmation screen, that summarizes what's going to happen if you click "Next", so it won't sneak up on you and destroy the computer. https://i.postimg.cc/mkcQnjTC/Media-...n-Tool1903.gif Paul I tried to follow your instructions, but I don't understand what you mean by double clicking or using Imagineburn to open the ISO file. I see no ISO file. I do not know if I'm doing this correctly and I have to login as Administrator to do this. Again, I am leery of doing this if I have to go to the Admin Account. http://i66.tinypic.com/9qkx00.jpg http://i66.tinypic.com/2uylk77.jpg http://i65.tinypic.com/4r48r5.jpg http://i68.tinypic.com/vcyxw4.jpg http://i65.tinypic.com/2vdn1pu.jpg Should I login as Admin and proceed? Thanks, Robert Do you use a "limited account" normally ? If the tool wanted to be elevated, it would have put up a UAC box confirming that it would be using administrator group privileges. If you use the Accounts control panel, it may state whether your current login user belongs to the Administrator Group or not. There are several account types, and this is a sample. 1000 - User Rob, belongs to Administrators Group The first account created on the machine, usually belongs to Administrator group, because MS doesn't want you to lose the ability to do Admin stuff. 1001 - If you made a second account, the second account could belong to Administrator Group too. Or you could remove the Administrator Group and this would be a "LimitedRob" account. Such a Limited User, cannot install software, because without Admin they can't do stuff like Impersonate System or perhaps, get a TrustedInstaller token. 500 - Real administrator. On modern Windows this account is disabled. If you enable the account, you should set a decent password for it. Logging in as the 500 account, leaves you elevated at all times. If you run the browser, watch Yahoo flash movies, if the browser is exploited, the whole machine could easily be tipped over. If you run as 1000 in the example, while you belong to Administrator group, the UAC prompt determine when the program is "elevated". To run Firefox, you don't see the UAC box, and Firefox runs "un-elevated". If the browser is exploited, the damage could be less. On the 1001 account in the example, the user can never elevate, so running Firefox is the same as the previous paragraph. More likely to limit damage if there is an exploit on the loose. Note that the numbers above (the ones in the 1000 range) are only an example. And sometimes the numbers are assigned slightly differently. There is only one "500" though. The account 1000 in the example, offers the flexibility via the usage of the UAC box, of running as Administrator Group, or not. And that account provides safety and power at the same time. The account 1001 in my example, is for "keeping the kids safe". To limit the stuff they can get into (via TakeOwn), removing their Administrator Group membership ensures they can get into less mischief. Review your account setup, and determine which case of the above, applies to your current account. I don't typically recommend logging in as "500", as the "1000" in the example is just as effective when the UAC box is acknowledged. WinXP didn't have a UAC box, and if you belonged to the Administrator Group there, it was always enabled. You could probably use the "droprights" or similar program (third party) to de-elevate. ******* Summary: You can log in as anything you want. Review the Accounts control panel first, and see how many accounts you have, and which one is "the right size" for this job. whoami /user /priv A privilege list with four lines, might be a limited one, while a privilege list with maybe fifteen items could be Administrator Group. Paul I'm in the 1001 example; I have two accounts I created, my Administrator Account and my User Account. I usually am on my User Account when online but sometimes I have to go into the Administrator Account like if I need to go into disk management etc. So should I proceed? Thanks, Robert |
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Robert in CA wrote:
I'm in the 1001 example; I have two accounts I created, my Administrator Account and my User Account. I usually am on my User Account when online but sometimes I have to go into the Administrator Account like if I need to go into disk management etc. So should I proceed? Thanks, Robert You could use the account that belongs to the administrator group, then re-run the MediaCreationTool program. It's likely the first account (OOBE) you installed. This time it should work. Paul |
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On Monday, June 17, 2019 at 2:38:07 PM UTC-7, Paul wrote:
Robert in CA wrote: I'm in the 1001 example; I have two accounts I created, my Administrator Account and my User Account. I usually am on my User Account when online but sometimes I have to go into the Administrator Account like if I need to go into disk management etc. So should I proceed? Thanks, Robert You could use the account that belongs to the administrator group, then re-run the MediaCreationTool program. It's likely the first account (OOBE) you installed. This time it should work. Paul I logged into my Administrator Account and started to get the media creation tool then it gave me a pop-up (attached) and asked if I wanted the following program to make changes to be made to my computer. That wasn't in your instructions so I canceled it. http://i68.tinypic.com/160xym9.jpg http://i68.tinypic.com/1089stl.jpg http://i68.tinypic.com/mu7h37.jpg Also every time I go into my Admin Account and then back to my User Account the pages have shrunk and I have to re-size them. Why does it do that? So should I proceed? Thanks, Robert |
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