Microsoft: Windows 10 News and Discussion Thread
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I'm still refusing to upgrade my workstation (running Adobe, AutoCAD, etc)....Windows 7 is very stable and works, do I really want give Microsoft control over my computer? Snooping? App store? Etc?
I haven't upgraded any of my home computers either. If ain't broken - don't fix it.
Edit: And if one does upgrade, isn't it better to do a clean install of Win10?
I haven't upgraded any of my home computers either. If ain't broken - don't fix it.
Edit: And if one does upgrade, isn't it better to do a clean install of Win10?
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Sanest Florida Man
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My life is Windows 10 right now. By the end of this week I'll have installed it on about 60 different PCs in 7 offices. Still got about 30 more to do before Saturday @6am EST which is when the free upgrade expires
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I've got a unused/unregisted Win 7 Pro and Ultimate key. Wouldn't mind converting them to Win 10 for future PC builds, but how would I go about doing that? Would I actually have to install the OS and upgrade? Guess I should look into this, maybe contact MSFT?
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Install it in a VM and activate it to 10
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Wish I could just enter product key into MSFT database and they convert it into Win 10 key for future use. Too lazy to do install..... 
Guess I'll do that today or tomorrow, because with my luck, if I put it off until last day on Friday, something will happen and I'll be SOL
Guess I'll do that today or tomorrow, because with my luck, if I put it off until last day on Friday, something will happen and I'll be SOL
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There's talk that the Anniversary Update removes some group permissions, like the ability to remove lockscreen ads (or bypass the lockscreen altogether) from the Pro license. A couple other things like that as well, like restoring paid apps and the app store if you've decided to disable it.
Nothing about it from what I consider the mainstream sites unfortunately. Would be nice to put some pressure on Microsoft to reverse that if true. There are people who upgraded from Home to Pro at a cost to remove those ads, and putting them back would be a bait and switch.
Nothing about it from what I consider the mainstream sites unfortunately. Would be nice to put some pressure on Microsoft to reverse that if true. There are people who upgraded from Home to Pro at a cost to remove those ads, and putting them back would be a bait and switch.
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I did it for my unused Win 7 Ultimate key yesterday. Might as well. Put a spare HDD into laptop, installed Win 10 using ISO, entered Win 7 key, and it activated. Pretty simple.
I might just keep my unused Win 7 Pro key as Win 7 Pro though. Will decide tonight whether to upgrade it to Win 10 Pro or not.
I might just keep my unused Win 7 Pro key as Win 7 Pro though. Will decide tonight whether to upgrade it to Win 10 Pro or not.
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Finally got my free upgrade after 2 failed attempts, nice of MS to release an OS installer with a bug that conflicts with it's own update utility 
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^ You should have waited until the last minute, then take PC to a Microsoft store and let them do upgrade for you. If they can't get it done, free Dell laptop..
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/stor...rade-challenge
Get a free, same-day upgrade to Windows 10. Our Answer Desk experts are here to help you get the safest, most productive and most personal version of Windows yet. If your PC meets all of the requirements, our team will upgrade your PC to Windows 10. If we don't upgrade your PC by close of business, you'll get a free Dell Inspiron 15.* PC must be checked into the Answer Desk at participating retail store before 12 noon local time.
• If your PC isn't compatible with Windows 10, we'll recycle it and give you $150 toward the purchase of a new PC**
• Save $20 on Office 365 Home when you upgrade to Windows 10
Don't miss out on this limited time opportunity to get the best Windows ever, for free. To find out how to win an Xbox One when upgrading, see a store associate. Find your store and register today.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/stor...rade-challenge
Get a free, same-day upgrade to Windows 10. Our Answer Desk experts are here to help you get the safest, most productive and most personal version of Windows yet. If your PC meets all of the requirements, our team will upgrade your PC to Windows 10. If we don't upgrade your PC by close of business, you'll get a free Dell Inspiron 15.* PC must be checked into the Answer Desk at participating retail store before 12 noon local time.
• If your PC isn't compatible with Windows 10, we'll recycle it and give you $150 toward the purchase of a new PC**
• Save $20 on Office 365 Home when you upgrade to Windows 10
Don't miss out on this limited time opportunity to get the best Windows ever, for free. To find out how to win an Xbox One when upgrading, see a store associate. Find your store and register today.
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It ends on Saturday 6AM EST 3AM PST
If you want to get your free upgrade you have to actually go through the process of upgrading it and once it's activated with Microsoft a unique hardware ID will be stored with them. So you can then uninstall 10 and roll back to a previous version of Windows and then when you upgrade again in the future it'll recognize the hardware and activate.
If you want to get your free upgrade you have to actually go through the process of upgrading it and once it's activated with Microsoft a unique hardware ID will be stored with them. So you can then uninstall 10 and roll back to a previous version of Windows and then when you upgrade again in the future it'll recognize the hardware and activate.
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There's talk that the Anniversary Update removes some group permissions, like the ability to remove lockscreen ads (or bypass the lockscreen altogether) from the Pro license. A couple other things like that as well, like restoring paid apps and the app store if you've decided to disable it.
Nothing about it from what I consider the mainstream sites unfortunately. Would be nice to put some pressure on Microsoft to reverse that if true. There are people who upgraded from Home to Pro at a cost to remove those ads, and putting them back would be a bait and switch.
Nothing about it from what I consider the mainstream sites unfortunately. Would be nice to put some pressure on Microsoft to reverse that if true. There are people who upgraded from Home to Pro at a cost to remove those ads, and putting them back would be a bait and switch.
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If you're PC isn't compatible it probably isn't worth $150. That's a pretty good deal. I've upgrade probably 50 PCs to 10 in the past couple weeks and only one wasn't compatible, it was a low end PC with onboard Nvidia GPU that didn't support 10. I found a hack to get it to work but didn't bother with it, I just told them it wouldn't work.
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FYI I've been noticing that you have to enter in a PW for filesharing with 10. One PC already had 10 so I created a share on it to share out 10 install files to everyone else in the office (no onsite server), even though everyone was allowed full access to the share I still had to sign in with a user account to access the files. Just today at another office with 3 PCs the network scanner sent PDF files over SMB to a share on a PC, in the settings of the scanner the Username and PW was empty and everyone was given full access to the share. That worked fine with 7 but once that PC upgraded to 10 it stopped working. I had to go into settings on the scanner and enter her username and PW to get it working again.
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FYI I've been noticing that you have to enter in a PW for filesharing with 10. One PC already had 10 so I created a share on it to share out 10 install files to everyone else in the office (no onsite server), even though everyone was allowed full access to the share I still had to sign in with a user account to access the files. Just today at another office with 3 PCs the network scanner sent PDF files over SMB to a share on a PC, in the settings of the scanner the Username and PW was empty and everyone was given full access to the share. That worked fine with 7 but once that PC upgraded to 10 it stopped working. I had to go into settings on the scanner and enter her username and PW to get it working again.
i only use it as a file server for my Mac mini to connect to.
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From: ShitsBurgh
^ You should have waited until the last minute, then take PC to a Microsoft store and let them do upgrade for you. If they can't get it done, free Dell laptop..
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/stor...rade-challenge
Get a free, same-day upgrade to Windows 10. Our Answer Desk experts are here to help you get the safest, most productive and most personal version of Windows yet. If your PC meets all of the requirements, our team will upgrade your PC to Windows 10. If we don't upgrade your PC by close of business, you'll get a free Dell Inspiron 15.* PC must be checked into the Answer Desk at participating retail store before 12 noon local time.
• If your PC isn't compatible with Windows 10, we'll recycle it and give you $150 toward the purchase of a new PC**
• Save $20 on Office 365 Home when you upgrade to Windows 10
Don't miss out on this limited time opportunity to get the best Windows ever, for free. To find out how to win an Xbox One when upgrading, see a store associate. Find your store and register today.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/stor...rade-challenge
Get a free, same-day upgrade to Windows 10. Our Answer Desk experts are here to help you get the safest, most productive and most personal version of Windows yet. If your PC meets all of the requirements, our team will upgrade your PC to Windows 10. If we don't upgrade your PC by close of business, you'll get a free Dell Inspiron 15.* PC must be checked into the Answer Desk at participating retail store before 12 noon local time.
• If your PC isn't compatible with Windows 10, we'll recycle it and give you $150 toward the purchase of a new PC**
• Save $20 on Office 365 Home when you upgrade to Windows 10
Don't miss out on this limited time opportunity to get the best Windows ever, for free. To find out how to win an Xbox One when upgrading, see a store associate. Find your store and register today.
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