Windows 10

ConM96 · 29-07-2015 3:11pm

Just got an email there for on Harvey Norman offering a deal. They are offering to install windows 10 in any windows 8.1 laptop you buy with them for "only" €39. Hopefully no one falls for this and pays for the free upgrade .

scdublin · 29-07-2015 3:18pm

Are people in Ireland able to update already? I thought it wasn't available here until tonight/tomorrow?

FAILSAFE 00 · 29-07-2015 3:28pm

ConM96 wrote: »

Just got an email there for on Harvey Norman offering a deal. They are offering to install windows 10 in any windows 8.1 laptop you buy with them for "only" €39. Hopefully no one falls for this and pays for the free upgrade .

What a shower of b*******

work2013 · 29-07-2015 3:30pm

i still can't get mine to download windows 10... just says its reserved... tried almost everything including deleting the download folder and running the cmd update command

Copper_pipe · 29-07-2015 3:31pm

work2013 wrote: »

i still can't get mine to download windows 10... just says its reserved... tried almost everything including deleting the download folder and running the cmd update command

Exact same issue for me

Darren 83 · 29-07-2015 3:32pm

I was thinking of upgrading to win 8.1 pro pack would this mean I would get windows 10 pro when I do upgrade to windows 10?

peking97 · 29-07-2015 3:32pm

I'm getting a report along the lines ....*We were unable to update the system reserved partition*???
Possibly related to the fact that I replaced the HDD with an SSD some months back?

kearneybobs · 29-07-2015 3:39pm

work2013 wrote: »

i still can't get mine to download windows 10... just says its reserved... tried almost everything including deleting the download folder and running the cmd update command

Copper_pipe wrote: »

Exact same issue for me

Go here
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

Download the relevant tool to install it for you and select upgrade this PC when prompted. Should work for you. It's installing for me that way. Wasn't getting the prompt earlier. It's already finished 'Copying files' and has now rebooted itself a couple of times and is 'Installing features and drivers' for me now.

Brian017 · 29-07-2015 3:43pm

FAILSAFE 00 wrote: »

What a shower of b*******

I got the email too and contacted them about it and they said "The upgrade is free and this service is for costumers who would rather us to do it for them"

More likely "We hope to take advantage of the less savvy who don't realise its a free and easy to do update"

work2013 · 29-07-2015 3:45pm

kearneybobs wrote: »

Go here
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

Download the relevant tool to install it for you and select upgrade this PC when prompted. Should work for you. It's installing for me that way. Wasn't getting the prompt earlier. It's already finished 'Copying files' and has now rebooted itself a couple of times and is 'Installing features and drivers' for me now.

Tried that also but only got the "Something happened" message..

I'm currently trying to install every recommended and optional update just in case I need any of those ... will see how it goes after

Liamario · 29-07-2015 3:47pm

FourFourFM wrote: »

I'm getting that as well

Same. The most useless error message ever.

demakinz · 29-07-2015 3:47pm

My Offaly accent and Cortana don't seem to work to well together.

Liamario · 29-07-2015 3:50pm

demakinz wrote: »

My Offaly accent and Cortana don't seem to work to well together.

Similar to everyday life so :P

Mr E · 29-07-2015 3:50pm

After you run the update command from the command prompt, you can click the windows icon in the system tray to let you know if the download is complete. If it is, there will be a link/button to start it off.

If you get "Something happened", make sure you have all pending updates installed for your current version of windows (it won't install W10 if there are any)

demakinz · 29-07-2015 3:55pm

Liamario wrote: »

Similar to everyday life so :P

Yeah Microsoft got that spot on.

Liamario · 29-07-2015 3:57pm

Mr E wrote: »

After you run the update command from the command prompt, you can click the windows icon in the system tray to let you know if the download is complete. If it is, there will be a link/button to start it off.

If you get "Something happened", make sure you have all pending updates installed for your current version of windows (it won't install W10 if there are any)

I'm not following.

shanec1928 · 29-07-2015 4:02pm

Going for my third or fourth go at this. Keeps failing with C1900106 which looks like it's software related. Annoying that it said there was no issue on the checker. Moro begin the tedious task of decrypting the drive and remove the software which I assume is the issue.

EoghanIRL · 29-07-2015 4:09pm

Liamario wrote: »

I'm not following.

Basically the option to upgrade to windows 10 didn't actually appear until I had the recommended and the optional updates downloaded.

Tomagotchye · 29-07-2015 4:14pm

EoghanIRL wrote: »

Basically the option to upgrade to windows 10 didn't actually appear until I had the recommended and the optional updates downloaded.

I'm trying to update them all but I keep getting a 643 error message on this one "important" update file that I can't seem to shake. Tried restarting, clean booting which is what microsoft recommend

IvySlayer · 29-07-2015 4:17pm

Is there anyway to remove OneDrive?

ED E · 29-07-2015 4:18pm

Tomagotchye wrote: »

I'm trying to update them all but I keep getting a 643 error message on this one "important" update file that I can't seem to shake. Tried restarting, clean booting which is what microsoft recommend

Youll need to track down whats not updating.

Ive one machine thats got a corrupt .NET install thats sticking an update, spent ages already debugging it.

Liamario · 29-07-2015 4:22pm

EoghanIRL wrote: »

Basically the option to upgrade to windows 10 didn't actually appear until I had the recommended and the optional updates downloaded.

I see. Everything is completely downloaded and up to date except an intel display driver, where the error message tells me the best driver has already been installed.

Alun · 29-07-2015 4:32pm

IvySlayer wrote: »

Is there anyway to remove OneDrive?

http://www.howtogeek.com/167058/how-to-disable-skydrive-integration-in-windows-8.1/

Grey Wind · 29-07-2015 4:33pm

I reserved it not too long ago but I didn't get any notification, so I tried manually installing this. Been stuck with this for ages now: http://puu.sh/jhwSG/81915fa806.png

Any tips?

sKeith · 29-07-2015 4:36pm

Grey Wind wrote:

I reserved it not too long ago but I didn't get any notification, so I tried manually installing this. Been stuck with this for ages now: http://puu.sh/jhwSG/81915fa806.png[/URL]

What happens if you click Next?

barrackali · 29-07-2015 4:38pm

Guys,

What's the issue with Activation, I've upgraded straight from Windows 8.1, keep getting Activation errors.

ablelocks · 29-07-2015 4:46pm

on an older desktop, if i do a clean install, will drivers automatically be installed or will i have to find and download them manually? I've upgraded the pc a number of times over the years and I think a clean install would be better than another upgrade now.

29-07-2015 4:48pm

mine is now failing with a check your pc message , clicking the button does nothing

Falcon L · 29-07-2015 4:50pm

Anybody know if you can choose OS language in Windows 10? One of my laptops has a Spanish version of Win 7 and I would rather Win 10 to be in English.

work2013 · 29-07-2015 4:55pm

On the issue of installing these recommended and optional updates, won't these all be deleted on upgrade to windows 10 ?
It's almost like they want to force people to turn on windows updates to get the upgrade.

Windows 10

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