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Windows 10 quickie upgrade info (vanity)
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Posted on 07/29/2015 2:00:38 PM PDT by Mount Athos

You don't have to wait for your win 10 "reservation", you can upgrade whenever you want by running this:

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

Choose "upgrade this computer". This requires the latest version of 8.1 (or 7). You won't need to input a key. The download is about 5 gigabytes. This will keep all your programs installed and keep all your personal files. (you can do a fresh install after the upgrade if you want)

You can choose either express or custom install, I chose custom install and unchecked about 12 scary sounding privacy settings.

Overall my experience was painless and successful. I did have to manually upgrade my video driver to get things looking great, but that's minor and expected.

I strongly recommend "classic shell" for those familiar with the old style windows start menu.

http://www.classicshell.net/


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: windows; windows10; windowspinglist
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To: EternalVigilance

Many people don’t like the Windows “tile” interface and prefer the old look with the Start menu. Windows doesn’t provide an option to re-enable the Start menu interface, so you have to use “Classic Shell”, a third-party utility, to get that look back.


21 posted on 07/29/2015 2:39:14 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Mount Athos
Took me 30-min to update, twerking to my liking will take YEARS.

LOL, ok not really. Win score is 8.1 and had to run it though a shell.

22 posted on 07/29/2015 2:41:34 PM PDT by MaxMax (Call the local GOP and ask how you can support CRUZ for POTUS,)
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To: knarf

You can still run W98 on your W7 if you really want to. I had a new desk top built this year and it came with W7 x64.

I also run Win 2k on it for software the 64 bit won’t load and later will run W95 for some old 16 bit games.

I’m now running some very intense 64 bit CAD & Video software along side stuff meant for W95.

You need to download a free copy of vmware. It’s software that allows you to run other op systems such as W98 along with W7. I’ve read where Microsoft also offers software that allows running older op systems on a virtual machine.


23 posted on 07/29/2015 2:42:56 PM PDT by redfreedom (All it takes for evil to win is for good people to do nothing - that's how the left took over.)
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To: Mount Athos

I personally hated windows 8, thought win 8.1 was tolerable with start 8 installed, but I like windows 10 so far. It’s a lot faster on my system than 7


24 posted on 07/29/2015 2:44:04 PM PDT by jkeith3213
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To: Mount Athos

Ok, let’s discuss spoofery. What file do I need to download on my Win 95 machine to get the free upgrade? :-) Oh ok, I’ll check out bittorrent.


25 posted on 07/29/2015 2:45:21 PM PDT by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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To: Proud2BeRight

I currently run Win 7. I’ll stick with that for a few weeks to see if Any major issues come up. From what Imhave seen Win 10 looks good.


26 posted on 07/29/2015 2:47:27 PM PDT by matt04
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To: SgtHooper

Er, make that Win 98.


27 posted on 07/29/2015 2:47:28 PM PDT by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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To: redfreedom

I’m with you !!!!!!!!!!!!


28 posted on 07/29/2015 2:48:28 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: SgtHooper

don’t discuss that kind of thing here please


29 posted on 07/29/2015 2:54:12 PM PDT by Mount Athos (A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
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To: Mount Athos

Thanks for the report. I’ll probably wait a few days to do this. I have 3 partitions one WinXP, one Windows 7 and the third already running Windows 10 pre release.


30 posted on 07/29/2015 3:06:22 PM PDT by McGruff (Eat a snickers...)
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To: mmichaels1970

What are you on? Dial-up? I downloaded the whole thing in thirty minutes. It’s taking longer to install it than to get it from MS.


31 posted on 07/29/2015 3:09:03 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Voting is acting white.)
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To: Mount Athos

Updated this morning and generally OK. I was having driver problems and opted for a reinstall, but I will have to reinstall some applications. If I were to do this again I would backup my files and do a clean install. However, I am growing to like Windows 10


32 posted on 07/29/2015 3:11:05 PM PDT by The Great RJ (“Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money.” Margaret Thatcher)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Can I disable One Drive? It pops up and asks for a password. I don’t use it for anything that I know of???? Thank you and yes, so far so good with WIN 10 today.


33 posted on 07/29/2015 3:12:40 PM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: knarf
Bill Gate$ needs more money to complete Agenda 21 and KILL OFF YOU AND YOUR PROGENY....

Simple really.

34 posted on 07/29/2015 3:15:08 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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To: Mount Athos

Thank you. Using it now to download on a Win 7 machine. Already did an upgrade to an 8.1 machine this a.m.


35 posted on 07/29/2015 3:19:10 PM PDT by Author Mike Carnegie (Tag line stolen by an undocumented Democrat as an act of love)
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To: Mount Athos
I can't get Alt-Tab preview to work, there's no way that I can find. When running
multiple apps I use Alt-Tab to skim through various notepad pages to find the
one I want, and pausing while holding Alt used to show it full page without
stopping or selecting.

Now I have to click each page to see what's on it instead of seeing the preview.
This is a Huge time sink.

Any idea how to get this function back without trashing win-10 back to Win-7?

36 posted on 07/29/2015 3:22:23 PM PDT by MaxMax (Call the local GOP and ask how you can support CRUZ for POTUS,)
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To: MaxMax

Try alt + escape
It’s not a perfect replacement but it’s not horrible either


37 posted on 07/29/2015 3:26:38 PM PDT by Mount Athos (A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
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To: MaxMax

I heard alt-tab is gone forever.


38 posted on 07/29/2015 3:28:10 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Kirkwood
I heard alt-tab is gone forever.

Hmm.

39 posted on 07/29/2015 3:30:09 PM PDT by tacticalogic
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To: Mount Athos

Better get a system image backup before installing. So far my venue 11 failed the upgrade. I had no network adapters despite them being installed in device manager.

I’m trying to upgrade my gaming system tonight. Hope it turns out better than the venue. I couldn’t even activate windows so I could clean install.


40 posted on 07/29/2015 3:36:05 PM PDT by drunknsage
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