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I get this message "0xC004F063 computer bios is missing required license"
Ah. Because it's OEM - it's finding the SLP key. A donor PC of the same make would probably work.
What version of W7 was it?
Wait - was the licence you got from Uni an OEM key, or VLK, or what?
Its ok its fixed. win7loader, not the best way but its worked. Thanks C
Dunno what's happened but I was prompted to start the upgrade and after 20 minutes the screen was saying 'restarting'.
It still says the same 2 hours later.
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At some point I do expect the service model to turn to a rental model, a la Office 365.
I don't think so. I gather the logic behind this is that very, very few home users pay for upgrades when they launch a new version of the OS; they'll continue to make enough money from new (OEM) licenses and enterprise support, and it's in their interests to move everyone to the latest version to avoid having to patch legacy software. Office is different, because people do buy upgrades, and the Office 365 sub also pays for more OneDrive storage.
Anyone seen my stilsons?
Anyone seen my stilsons?
Easy tiger!
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What? I'll have you know this CPU was state of the art in 2005.
(AMD Athlon 64 x2 Dual Core 3800)
Wut?! That's got to be a joke....Hold on...
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1856378
http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-confirms-some-older-amd-processors-do-not-support-windows-81
You might be able to work around it with a 32 bit version:
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/42852/microsofts-windows-10-feature-32-bit-version/index.html
How much RAM do you have?
4GB Ram
Hmmm, I edited the post above.
If you desperately need W10 then the 32bit version may work, but as the tweaktown article says, you're limited to 4GB of RAM including VRAM, so you'll lose some, probably.
At a guess: not worth it.
Oh well. I'm probably overdue a hardware upgrade anyway - I just wanted to secure my free Win10 upgrade while I could. Hopefully I'll still be able to create an install disc?
One assumes so, but I'd investigate whether you are allowed a 64b .iso!
On my laptop it is great, on my surface pro 3, it has killed my battery, killed my split screen and basically turned it a bit crap.
Hopefully I can get back to 8.1 with a refresh. Hopefully.
There's an option to go back to w8 in the settings>update&security>restore. only lasts a month though.Quirrel - Member
On my laptop it is great, on my surface pro 3, it has killed my battery, killed my split screen and basically turned it a bit crap.Hopefully I can get back to 8.1 with a refresh. Hopefully.
can anyone tell me if it will start to the screen where you can choose the user?
Windows 8 just went straight to whoever was on last and it was annoying.
Cheers
can anyone tell me if it will start to the screen where you can choose the user?
There's a button on the bottom left of the login screen to switch user.
Been using it for 2 full days in work now...
I'm not convinced - Edge is crap, it's slow, it claims fictional network failures and the controls are idiotic - I only found out today IE is still a part of Win10, it's just 'hidden' - Win10 seems to have made that slow and crappy too.
Over-all 10 is slower to boot, slower to close and slower to use than 8.1, it looks great and it's a single OS and not a 2-in-1 like 8.1 opening apps as windows is worth the hassle alone - I reckon it needs a few updates to get into its stride.
No probs on my surface pro 3 . If anything battery life seems to be improved with w10
Over-all 10 is slower to boot, slower to close and slower to use than 8.1, it looks great and it's a single OS and not a 2-in-1 like 8.1 opening apps as windows is worth the hassle alone - I reckon it needs a few updates to get into its stride.
Without wanting to come across as a f@n8o1, there's apparently a big patch due in Aug, then a further one in Oct. My dad tells me Sony are also advising people not to upgrade until they've had a chance to make sure all their Vaio drivers work (which makes Sony look a bit crap, given Win 10 has been in public beta for months).
Apple are just as capable of turning out a buggy mess in the .0 release (my iPhone still won't connect to public wifi if I don't turn the cellular data off first).
OK - so if I don't want nGB of not-ready-for-primetime OS sitting on my SSD but I have hit the "Reserve" popup, can I cancel it and wait a few months and d/l a version that's ready to be used as primetime?
anyone know when / how I can get it for phone? just been given a lumia 925 as a stop gap but I like the idea of it being my mobile PC.
There will almost certainly been a major update within weeks - there's not really a test that can replicate 14m users and lord knows how many different PC specs and millions of drivers for various things.
It's far, far better than we feared in work though (IT support co.) we've advised, ordered and begged our clients not to update yet as we expected all manner of horror stories - but we're going to tell them they can crack on if they like with some advise about pitfalls.
Running like a sweetie now I have updated legacy drivers on my 10 year old x86 Inspiron 9300 (whopping 2gb RAM).
What I must stress though is that the 8.1 install was completely fresh and only about 3 weeks old with barely anything installed. I'm guessing how well it runs will depend on how much shite you've filled your computer with over the years. It definitely runs better than 8.1 though, it just feels faster and gets far less upset if you try to do more than one thing at a time.
When I come to do my desktop I will be obtaining my product key then doing a fresh install, it's about time it got one anyway.
It's far, far better than we feared in work though (IT support co.) we've advised, ordered and begged our clients not to update yet as we expected all manner of horror stories - but we're going to tell them they can crack on if they like with some advise about pitfalls.
The one bug that's doing my head in is that it doesn't like the security policy for my work email Exchange server (which worked fine on 8.1) - works for a bit then decides it's not happy and won't allow access. Still, it's not my main computer...
IE is still a part of Win10, it's just 'hidden' - Win10 seems to have made that slow and crappy too.
I don't think that is a Win10 feature, IE has always been slow and crappy!
I updated my main laptop in an hour or so without a single hitch and have used it a lot since for work. tried to do an older laptop and had to mess around with a partition but once I fixed that it finished in about 90 minutes.
All good here and I like the interface and everything so far is working very well. I am quite impressed really!
Only issues is slow to shutdown. Both laptops have SSD so boot up time just as good.
After the pretty much unqualified success of upgrading my surface pro 3, I thought I'd upgrade my 9 year old desktop, this started life as a windows xp machine, was upgraded to vista, then upgraded to windows 7, So was a bit apprehensive about upgrading to Windows 10, but it seems to have gone absolutely fine ,at first glance anyway. Time will tell for certain.
Well taken nearly 2 days to get to 84% download... Stupid slow Australian connection.
I might have it installed by next Thursday.
Started it this morning and after about 3 hours got to 40% and it just stopped, window has disappeared and I can't make it restart from windows update as it doesn't show up when I check for updates. Guess I'm not going to 10 then
Download the ISO. There's a link earlier in the thread.
Oh, and run a chkdsk before you start. sfc /scannow from an elevated command prompt won't hurt either.
elevated command prompt
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Probably worth repeating this from my post on the Android thread.
the default privacy settings in W10 are a bit terrifying. Worth hitting 'Advanced' when you get to this point of the install. (WHAT HAPPENS NEXT WILL SHOCK YOU!!1!)
Thanks, running the scan now.
To be totally honest this is a right ball ache, tried forcing it using the media creation tool a couple of times as well as checking for updates, then randomly got a prompt last night, didn't start it as I wanted to do a backup. That finished over night so I started the download, then it just stopped at 40%. If I can't get it to restart at 40% it won't finish in time for me to sort it before I go away tomorrow so there isn't much point. I'll try the media tool one more time after the scan has finished (only 20% of the verification phase so far) but if that doesn't work it'll have to wait till I'm back
Thanks
Matt
Just "upgraded"
Anyone else got no sound?
Handy video on Youtube explaining how to fix the problem. Only you can't, er, hear it.
Left my laptop running the upgrade overnight. In the morning it showed "update failure, recovery step 5 of 5". Eventually went back to Win7 where it is staying!
I've got another laptop with a out of date evaluation of Win 8, so I'll upgrade that. The computers I actually use though, can't see the point. Can do all I want to do on the old o/s and default browser is Chrome as I use my Google account for saved passwords, favourites etc.
nearly three times as long on charge for surface pro 3 on 8.1 than windows 10 - something is amiss here.
Just "upgraded"Anyone else got no sound?
For the benefit of anyone else who encounters this problem - a few extra restarts does the trick.
So has anyone tried it on a Parallels VM? I would be going from W7 - so if anyone has tried that upgrade in particular with Parallels I'm interested to hear how it went.
I had lots of trouble installing the latest windows 10 nvidia drivers. Kept getting a failure on the driver install section (physx etc went ok).
Solution I found that worked was to uninstall every nvidia program from my pc using windows installer. Then to browse to the Nvidia folder in my c: drive and delete it. Then re-download and install the drivers as admin. Worked perfectly.
Two updates for Win10 released last night, haven't installed them yet though - It interrupted me watching the MSA DH, priorities!
Seems I avoided a lot of the NVIDIA issues by blind luck - I took my PC to work to complete the migration (150meg at work v 4meg at home) but my work monitor doesn't have HDMI input and my GPU doesn't have VGA output so I removed the GPU and let it do its thing, once I got home I reinstalled the GPU, a quick visit to NVIDIA website for drivers and hey presto - looks better than ever.