Windows 10

shepherdi

Tip: After you have downloaded Win10 disconnect from the internet before you install it. This stops Microsoft gleaning loads of information about your PC, its location and settings

spud17

shepherdi wrote: »

Tip: After you have downloaded Win10 disconnect from the internet before you install it. This stops Microsoft gleaning loads of information about your PC, its location and settings

Then keep it disconnected for complete peace of mind.

Big_Graeme

shepherdi wrote: »

Tip: After you have downloaded Win10 disconnect from the internet before you install it. This stops Microsoft gleaning loads of information about your PC, its location and settings

That's the information you want them to have, that way you can reinstall when needed and it will activate.

I_have_spoken

Tip: After you have downloaded Win10 disconnect from the internet before you install it.

Observe basic safety procedures when using Microsoft programs

Gloomendoom

chocolatelover93 wrote: »

Hello,
Sorry for jumping onto your thread but was wondering if all the updates for W10 have now been done? I have a Toshiba Satillite (don't ask me which model because I have no clue, its purple and is runnuing W8) I "reserved" my free download but nothing seems to have happened?
Thanks

You can force it to upgrade by fiddling with the registry. That's what I did.

Google will show you how.

victor2

For anyone wondering...
I had a Win 7 netbook which I upgraded to 10.
I have since done a clean install of 7 (using the COA the netbook came with) and it activated fine.
I have now done a clean install of 10 from a USB. I skipped where it asked for the product key (twice) and let it install. It then told me it was activated.
So it looks like you can go back to your previous Windows version after upgrading to 10 without the "rollback" feature, and once the upgrade to 10 is done, you can reinstall 10 on that same machine without doing the upgrade again.
I have a Windows 7 laptop which I haven't upgraded. Will probably take an image backup, upgrade it just to get 10 registered, and then restore the image.

Fightsback

I_have_spoken wrote: »

Observe basic safety procedures when using Microsoft programs

It usually requires something more heavy duty than tin foil.

savetilibleed

esuhl wrote: »

Argh! I remember installing MS Office from 38 floppy disks! (They were actually 1.4MB, rather than 1.4Mb.)

That was on a laptop though (or rather, a knee-breaker!). The desktops had 5.25" floppy drives. And even they had a greater capacity than my Amstrad's 3" drive with 178KB of storage per side!

Those disks weren't cheap, either!

I also recall where I worked we had Lotus Smartsuite. I arranged to borrow the 39 floppies to take home for my own PC. I had bought a stack of floppies to copy all the Lotus discs, but discovered their capacity was greater than 1.44Mb of a standard floppy!

bod1467

Anyone else found that their migration from Win 7 to Win 10 has freed up a shed load of HDD space? Before the migration I had about 150GB free space (on a 500GB drive); now I have about 195GB free space, yet have all the same applications and data files.

(And yes ... I DID periodically run the likes of CCleaner on Win 7 but it never resolved anything like this amount of space; even when removing old system restore points).

victor2

I found a clean install of Win 10 Home took only 12GB of disk space after its Disk Clean-up was run. Think I'd also added Chrome by then.
Only 12GB - I remember connecting a "massive" 10MB hard drive to a single floppy drive IBM PC in the 80's and stating we'll never fill that...