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Hey Y’all,

Ok, the big day is here…anyone got the update yet? I’ve been working my laptop, registered for the update, but nothing yet. How about our mates across the pond where it’s afternoon already? :cheers:

May the Forces of good computing be with you!

RG

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RG, hello.
Methinks that you already have it as I. I have not found a way to say for sure. When I use KeyFinder, the OS date has been upgraded to today, the key too. Check yours !
A “Check for Updates” finds nothing !
Cortona is working here. All best wishes. Jean.

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Jean,

Yes I have it on my test laptop that’s been running Win 10 TP for months, but both my desktop Win 8.1 Pro and main laptop Win 7 HP are still waiting. :cheers:

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RG

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@RetiredGeek: Despite announcements online here earlier today that MS has started rolling out updates here (South Africa), Win10 has still not made an appearance (it is now 1457 local time). Eagerly standing by!!

My Rig: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core CPU; ASUS Cross Hair VIII Formula Mobo; Win 11 Pro (64 bit)-(UEFI-booted); 32GB RAM; 2TB Corsair Force Series MP600 Pro 2TB PCIe Gen 4.0 M.2 NVMe SSD. 1TB SAMSUNG 960 EVO M.2 NVME SSD; MSI GeForce RTX 3090 VENTUS 3X 24G OC; Microsoft 365 Home; Condusiv SSDKeeper Professional; Acronis Cyberprotect, VMWare Workstation Pro V17.5. HP 1TB USB SSD External Backup Drive). Dell G-Sync G3223Q 144Hz Monitor.

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MS states the updates will be pushed to those registered over the next few weeks. Does not say how they choose who gets it first.

I downloaded the ISO file using the Windows flash drive manager to load a bootable copy on a flash drive. Now I just need the product key to upgrade both PCs.

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MS states the updates will be pushed to those registered over the next few weeks. Does not say how they choose who gets it first.

I downloaded the ISO file using the Windows flash drive manager to load a bootable copy on a flash drive. Now I just need the product key to upgrade both PCs.

Can you please supply a link for doing that, I’d like to follow suit.

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Can you please supply a link for doing that, I’d like to follow suit.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/download-windows-10-official-iso-files-488014.shtml

Follow the advice and links in the article.

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Medico,

The product key is:
8N67H-M3CY9-QT7C4-2TR7M-TXYCV

Zig

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Medico,

The product key is:
8N67H-M3CY9-QT7C4-2TR7M-TXYCV

Zig

Did not need the product key as the installation found my Win 8.1 key and used that for the in place upgrade.

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Yes; installed it this morning. Assessment below (and not all pretty). 🙂

http://windowssecrets.com/forums/showthread//170288-Win10-installed-now-for-my-spiel

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Hey Y’all,

Yep I’m downloading the ISO on my Desktop as I type. I found it interesting that you have to pick a version to download rather than one ISO fits all.

@Medico, nice to see you back! How’s life in the RV?

:cheers:

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RG

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Really Microsoft!

After successfully downloading W10 Pro to a USB key on my Win 8.1 Pro desktop and starting the install I tried to Download W10 Home on my Laptop and got this:
41482-W10MediaCreation
Sure looks like I have a Y: drive (USB) to me but MS sure can’t see it.

And yes I did click the refresh link. :cheers:

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It gets better…The Windows Media Creation tool errors out when I try to start if from my Win 10 Pro Laptop! :cheers:

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RG

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Hey Y’all,

Ok, Win 10 Pro Installed on my Main PC and it may have a short life there! :angry: MS has blown away their own program, MS Money Sunset Edition, you get a message that it needs you to reinstall IE6 to function. I depend on this program for my finances and may well be the killer app 😆 that killed WIN 10 on my main machine! BTW: I swear I tested Money in the TP and it worked fine.

Win 10 has also broken my Virtual Box! It change the adapter names and VB no longer offers RealTech as an option. I’ve uninstalled & reinstalled VB and still no love. Looks like it’s back to Win 8.1 Pro for the desktop!

HTH :cheers:

May the Forces of good computing be with you!

RG

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Hey Y’all,

Ok, Win 10 Pro Installed on my Main PC and it may have a short life there! :angry: MS has blown away their own program, MS Money Sunset Edition, you get a message that it needs you to reinstall IE6 to function. I depend on this program for my finances and may well be the killer app 😆 that killed WIN 10 on my main machine! BTW: I swear I tested Money in the TP and it worked fine.

Win 10 has also broken my Virtual Box! It change the adapter names and VB no longer offers RealTech as an option. I’ve uninstalled & reinstalled VB and still no love. Looks like it’s back to Win 8.1 Pro for the desktop!

HTH :cheers:

My VB initially was broke to. Tried repair and it appeared to fix issues, but Win7 VM still had errors. No sound in my XP VM either. Un-installed then re-installed VB and all appears to work, but still no sound in WinXP, Win7, or Ubuntu (assumed prior that no sound in Ubuntu either, but I didn’t test this guest until after the re-install). I do suspect (and expect) Oracle will update VB shortly (well I hope so anyway). 🙂

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Hey Y’all,

Ok, Win 10 Pro Installed on my Main PC and it may have a short life there! :angry: MS has blown away their own program, MS Money Sunset Edition, you get a message that it needs you to reinstall IE6 to function. I depend on this program for my finances and may well be the killer app 😆 that killed WIN 10 on my main machine! BTW: I swear I tested Money in the TP and it worked fine.

Win 10 has also broken my Virtual Box! It change the adapter names and VB no longer offers RealTech as an option. I’ve uninstalled & reinstalled VB and still no love. Looks like it’s back to Win 8.1 Pro for the desktop!

HTH :cheers:

If you don’t get the VB working soon enough maybe you could use 10 PRO to boot a VHD of the old install to run Money. I am wondering if my version of Quicken will work in w1.

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When I check Windows Update History on Windows 8.1, I just found that Upgrade to Windows 10 Pro failed four times yesterday and once today. :confused:

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Mine showed failed this morning (just once; had left my computer on all night). I when to the failed update and clicked here and there and got the option to install Win10 and it upgraded (had to do so manually). Don’t remember the exact clicks but it was intuitive to me Bruce so sure it will be for you too. 🙂

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Thank you Macrium Reflect! My Main machine is back on Win 8.1 Pro and all is working fine including MS Money & Virutal Box.

I finally just downloaded the ISO for Win 10 Home for my laptop and used RUFUS to create the USB key. It’s updating now. Since I don’t need this laptop for important stuff it will be my second test machine. BTW this laptop is Dual Boot so it will be interesting to see what it does with that!

Here’s hoping Y’all are having a better upgrade experience! 😆 :cheers:

May the Forces of good computing be with you!

RG

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@RG,

On your main PC had you changed IE to be the default browser? On the last couple (or so) TP releases Edge was the default browser. Money may not like that.

Joe

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@RG,

On your main PC had you changed IE to be the default browser? On the last couple (or so) TP releases Edge was the default browser. Money may not like that.

Joe

Joe,

As with Outlook this had no effect. Looks like W10 won’t make it on my main machine! :cheers:

May the Forces of good computing be with you!

RG

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Hey Y’all,

Ok the second laptop updated just fine and even kept the dual boot and maintained the iReboot program provided by EasyBCD to move between OSes. Of course since this machine was a Local Logon it wants me to switch to a MS account to use Cortina. I’m not sure I want to do that just yet as you sure have to let it collect a lot of data on you to use that feature! :angry:

:cheers:

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RG

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I have a different Product Key than I had last night, and a different Product ID than I had last night. There’s nothing in Windows Update history to indicate that anything other than regular important/security updates were installed.

???

Always create a fresh drive image before making system changes/Windows updates; you may need to start over!

We all have our own reasons for doing the things that we do with our systems; we don't need anyone's approval, and we don't all have to do the same things.

We were all once "Average Users".

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I have a different Product Key than I had last night, and a different Product ID than I had last night. There’s nothing in Windows Update history to indicate that anything other than regular important/security updates were installed.

???

For some unknown reason, I clicked the Activate button, and it was all downhill from there. This post has the details.

Always create a fresh drive image before making system changes/Windows updates; you may need to start over!

We all have our own reasons for doing the things that we do with our systems; we don't need anyone's approval, and we don't all have to do the same things.

We were all once "Average Users".

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My install was trouble-free. What I was most worried about was that my Brother MFC-685CW AIO, 5 years old, wouldn’t work and I’d have to wait for Win 10-compatible drivers or some such thing. But my worries were needless, it worked fine.

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2. Reason(s) for using a MS Acc’t is not just in regard to Cortana.

Don’t I know it it also breaks access the the other PC’s shared folders on my home network! 😆 :cheers:

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RG

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The biggest problem I have with Win 10 so far is the lack of support for Windows Live Mail. I had a significant number of emails stored in storage folders and I do not have access to any of them. That is a real bummer. I have sent FB to MS about that.

I added an icon for IE on my Taskbar as Win Edge does not yet support add-ons and I use Lastpass extensively. Also sent FB about this.

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RG, I’m not really back as I am still super pi _ _ ed at the admins for what they did. I was just searching for a Product Key just in case I needed it during installation (did not).

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Two items to update:

1. On my 32-bit workstation (8 yrs old), when I booted into my Win8.1Pro partition, after login, a new “nag” window popped up (telling me tha Win10 was now available and extolling me to make my reservation). I tried to get a screen snapshot but it went away when OneNote was opened. This was the 1st boot after July 29, and that window does not show up on subsequent boots.

2. On that 32-bit Win8.1Pro system, when I opened the GWX module from the taskbar, it informed me that my monitor does not have Win10 compatible drivers available. On my 64-bit workstation where Win10 is already running, it uses the same monitor (via KVM switch) without problems, so 64-bit must have the driver (monitor is HP LP2065). Note that in #1 above, I am told to make my Win10 reservation but here I am told I can’t run Win10 on this comupter.

Normal Windows Update is s-l-o-w probably due to heavy load on MS servers for Win10.

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@ oldITguy

I seriously doubt Win10 can’t run on a system because of an “incompatible monitor”.

As far back as I can remember (certainly before Win95) if Windows couldn’t find a driver for a monitor then it would use a standard (built-in) monitor driver which usually was fine.

Worst case I would go to the monitor’s support website and download/install the driver from there (but shouldn’t be necessary w/ Win10).

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Thanks for the feedback.

I went to the HP website, and found nothing. I could get a Vista driver for 32-bit. The actual driver in use now on my Win7 system is from HP and dated from 2009.

I suspect you are correct in your assessment, but I think the GWX message on Win8.1Pro says I can’t upgrade unless there is a compatible driver in place before attempting the upgrade.

Further updates when I have them.

Anybody else with driver issues?

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David,

I’ve been giving that some though. I just received an free offer from Paragon Software today for a software package to create a Virtual Machine from your currently running version that is useable in Virtual Box. I’ve downloaded it but haven’t installed it yet. :cheers:

May the Forces of good computing be with you!

RG

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David,

I’ve been giving that some though. I just received an free offer from Paragon Software today for a software package to create a Virtual Machine from your currently running version that is useable in Virtual Box. I’ve downloaded it but haven’t installed it yet. :cheers:

I believe Macrium has such a tool also. I will look to see if I have a link.

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http://kb.macrium.com/KnowledgebaseArticle50005.aspx?Keywords=VHD

FOUND IT

I tried two different programs to do this I am not sure this was the successful one. :confused:

http://kb.macrium.com/KnowledgebaseArticle50005.aspx?Keywords=VHD

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Update to information about Win10 on my older HP d4650y 32-bit workstation…

When I invoke GWX, it provides the following:

41512-Win7_GEForce7300LE1

View Report provides the following:

41513-Win7_GEForce7300LE2

The message says the problem is in the video adapter, the GEForce 7300 LE. The driver is dated 1/30/2015 at version 9.18.13.908. I have searched for an updated driver and found none.

Note that while the video device adapter name is shown is RED, the message indicates the display manufacturer hasn’t made the display compatible with Windows 10. Okay, which is the problem…video card or monitor? The monitor is an HP LP2065 and there are no driver updates for it either.

This same situation occurs on my Win7 clean install partition and on my Win8.1Pro partition. At this point, this 32 bit workstation can’t run Windows 10 and I suspect the free download won’t be sent and the install wouldn’t work.

I do have an ISO file for build 10240. I may try that and see what happens. While a generic driver can be used for the physical monitor, I don’t think there is a generic driver for the video adapter.

Anybody else get Windows 10 to install & run on 32-bit nodes? Has someone found a driver update for the GEForce 7300 LE adapter?

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…The message says the problem is in the video adapter, the GEForce 7300 LE. The driver is dated 1/30/2015 at version 9.18.13.908. I have searched for an updated driver and found none…

I looked for your GeForce 7300 LE on nVidia’s website.

There do not seem to be any GeForce 7 Series drivers listed there for Win8.1, but there is “GeForce 309.08 Driver Release Date: 2015.2.24 Operating System: Windows 7 32-bit, Windows 8 32-bit, Windows Vista 32-bit”: http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/82701/en-us

…Okay, which is the problem…video card or monitor?…

The monitor isn’t the problem. The video card (AKA “video adapter”, “display card”, “graphics adapter”, etc.) is the problem.

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MS has blown away their own program, MS Money Sunset Edition, you get a message that it needs you to reinstall IE6 to function. I depend on this program for my finances and may well be the killer app

RG,
I also use MS Money Sunset Edition so have you found any fix for it yet or is W10 doomed on my everyday computers? My test computer ( that still hasn’t received the win 10 upgrade yet ) doesn’t have the money program on it.

Don't take yourself so seriously, no one else does 🙂
All W10 Pro at 22H2,(2 Desktops, 1 Laptop).

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David,

I haven’t found a way around it yet! :cheers:

May the Forces of good computing be with you!

RG

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Coochin:

Thanks for the feedback. I also looked at that update but it didn’t mention anything about Win10.

However, I did download the installer, and applied it to my Win8.1Pro 32-bit system. It installed lots of stuff but only EXACTLY the same video driver module that was there before…dated 1/30/2015 v9.18.13.908. Further, the GWX module still says this driver is not compatible with Windows 10 (even after reboot).

No joy in Mudville tonight. Still no Win8.1Pro support for Windows 10 for GEForce 7300 LE. Maybe later.

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…Still no Win8.1Pro support for Windows 10 for GEForce 7300 LE…

According to Wikipedia the 7300 LE is a PCI-E card: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_7_series

Maybe you could try a different model card if you can find one?

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Coochin:

Thanks for the suggestion. The only question remains is which Nvidia cards are supported on Win10 (or others for that matter)?

It is one thing to get a message from GWX regarding a driver issue (or any other issue), but it seems there is little recourse for resolution as the vendors tend to put their support only in new devices, not for existing devices on old computers.

By the way, my 64-bit workstation does not have this issue.

Well, at least for now I don’t have to worry about Windows 10 disrupting my present computer, which I depend on heavily for running things that are as old or older than the computer itself. At one time, I had an old Micron circa 1999, that could no longer be upgraded and the old software started failing as well (it was two years ago when I shut if off for good). XP stuff is now in this state as lots of updates for the vendor XP on this node won’t run either.

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…The only question remains is which Nvidia cards are supported on Win10 (or others for that matter)?…

The PC I have Win10 on has an “ATI Radeon HD3870” PCI-E VGA card that is about six years old now. Win10 complained about it when first installed back in late 2014, but found a driver that worked within a couple of days. Since then it seems to have been updated again as the current driver is dated 1/13/2015.

It is likely an update driver for your card will be made available before much longer.

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Hey Y’all,

Update on the MS Money problem. I now have it running in Virtual Box on a Win XP Image reaching out to the data file on the Main Win 8.1 Pro folder system. So as long as Virtual box works on W10 I can always use the VB copy to do my finances. Now the question is since I have W10 running just fine on 2 laptops do I want to bother to the Win 8.1 Pro desktop, that I’m perfectly happy with, to Win 10….hmmmm? :cheers:

May the Forces of good computing be with you!

RG

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Hey Y’all,

Update on the MS Money problem. I now have it running in Virtual Box on a Win XP Image reaching out to the data file on the Main Win 8.1 Pro folder system. So as long as Virtual box works on W10 I can always use the VB copy to do my finances. Now the question is since I have W10 running just fine on 2 laptops do I want to bother to the Win 8.1 Pro desktop, that I’m perfectly happy with, to Win 10….hmmmm? :cheers:

I think I’ll give that a shot with XP in a Hyper V VM in 10 when I get a few other things going the way I want them to.

As for the 8.1, I’m keeping my dual boot with 8.1 Pro with Media Center. I’ve been running money on that for quite a while, now.

Always create a fresh drive image before making system changes/Windows updates; you may need to start over!

We all have our own reasons for doing the things that we do with our systems; we don't need anyone's approval, and we don't all have to do the same things.

We were all once "Average Users".

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