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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.

Dave,

How to migrate Office when Windows 10 launches – or will it be necessary?

No, it won’t be.

Just to further clarify… the “Reserve” that you did means the install(er) for Windows 10 will be downloaded to your W7 or 8.1 OS for you on the 29. It will then be up to the End User to initiate the install, the Upgrade… they have 12 months, until 28/7/16 to do that @ N/C. It does not install, only downloads the installer… does not self-install or auto-install. The User does that. Microsoft is only looking after the download for you not, the installation of said download. When the End User does set the process in motion it will change the location where the 7 or 8.1 is to Windows 10. This renders the (other) drive holding W10 Beta as no longer having any raison d’etre and it can be formatted.

Drew, thanks much.

I created a partition on my hard drive for the Windows 10 beta. I presume that installation of the gold version will not touch the beta partition and it will be up to me to (1) format the beta partition and (2) merge the resultant empty space back into the partition from whence it came.

Correct?

Thanks again.

David

Drew, thanks.

And I got that icon and replied in the affirmative. Thank you for the clarification.

And that worked for me when I went to update my wife’s computer. I applied KB2647753 first and then all the others en masse afterward. It worked just fine.

Agreed on the epic fail comment. I ended up installing them one by one. Took me 90 minutes.

Ted Myers and I think alike – I use two programs (CCleaner and TuneUp Utilities). Registry/general cleaning is one of my obsessions. I’ve never had a problem using these two programs. The thing I like about TuneUp is that it has a disk cleanup feature that allows you to jettison restore points. I found that these types of files, if left unchecked, can grow to over 10 gigabytes in less than a week – sometimes in a matter of two or three days. No need to keep an excess of old restore points, IMHO.

I agree totally with Dennis, I had the same experience. I bought a wireless N router soon after purchasing a new laptop that had a wireless N card. I had been using WEP encryption in my old wireless G router and when I configured the new router using WEP, I got no faster than 54 Mbps. When I went to WPA2 with AES, my speed went up to the advertised max of the router, i.e.., 300 Mbps (it’s a Netgear WNR2000 router).