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• Troubleshooting a failed Windows 10 upgrade or feature update

  Posted on March 23, 2020 at 09:38 CDT by joep517 • Comment in the Forums

  With the Windows 7 support expiration and more people working from home, an upgrade to Windows 10 is coming into focus for people who may have been avoiding it. This article covers both Windows 10 upgrade and feature update failures. There are a number of troubleshooting tips and tools. See Ed Bott’s article on ZDNet Windows 10 upgrade failed? Use these 5 tools to find the problem and fix it fast.

  Windows 10 Win10, Win10 updates, Windows 10 installation, Windows troubleshooting

• Windows 10 upgrade problems – and what to do about them

  Posted on February 17, 2017 at 09:19 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  A dozen top problems, and what you can do besides assuming a fetal position.

  This guide targets two separate but intertwined groups: Those who have recently upgraded from Win7 (or, less likely, Win8.1) and those who have upgraded from an earlier version of Win10 (likely the November Update, Version 1511) to a recent version (as of this writing, probably the Anniversary Update, Version 1607).

  InfoWorld Feature.

  UPDATE: Gunter Born has an interesting revelation about error 0xC0020012 on his Born City web site.

  Windows Patches/Security Windows 10 installation, Windows 10 upgrade

• Is 46 GB not enough free space to install Windows 10?

  Posted on March 15, 2016 at 10:42 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Interesting question from reader A:

  It is not my intention to give you more work than you already have, but perhaps, you’d like to know this.
   
  A friend of mine has Win7 on his desktop.
  Used space: 53.9
  Freed space: 46.0
   
  He wanted to install Windows 10.
   
  But he was unable to. According to Microsoft logic there was not enough free space.

  I wrote back to A, asking for more details, but there’s obviously something wrong. Have any of you hit the problem? And solved it?

  Best guess I have at the moment is to stick a blank USB drive in the computer and try again. The Win10 installer may use free USB space for the installation.

  Other Windows 10 installation

• Anybody out there have trouble installing Windows 10?

  Posted on September 25, 2015 at 15:28 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  I have a few problems filed away, and I’ve bumped into many others, but I’m interested in knowing if you, or someone you know, encountered (and solved) an installation problem.

  This is very focused on installation and the immediate aftermath – setting up users, that kind of thing. I’m gathering information for an article.

  If you hit a problem installing Win10, let me know in the comments here. Also let me know if you want to be identified by name. If you found a solution to the problem somewhere, fill me in on it – and if there’s a link to more info that’s still working, all the better.

  Thanks!

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