Windows 10

Lorian

Judi wrote: »

Windows 10 isnt compatible with Microsoft Money. Sunset.... even in compatibility mode.

If you are having a problem with it saying it needs IE6 there is a registry workaround. Just google "Win10 Money regedit" and you will find it.

Lorian

spud17 wrote: »

Are you saying that there is no longer a difference between Retail and OEM installation media?
I don't know regarding Win 8/8.1, but there was with Win 7.

I have upgraded a HP OEM Win 7 Pro Installation and a Green-box retail Win7 Pro from the same media Win 10 today just fine, both activated.


It does appear you need to reserve your free upgrade in Win 7 before doing an upgrade from media, otherwise you are asked for a key.


You can create your media with x32 and x64 installations on the same media, so just need one for pro, and one for home, to cover all options. if using single sided DVDs you are going to need to make 4.

Lorian

gardner1 wrote: »

is it possible to get rid of the image that appears before sign in

In all settings -> Personalisation


(click the box just to the left of the date and time, bottom right)

hollie.weimeraner

Has anyone had any issues sending emails? I am currently unable to send any emails although when testing send and receive in account settings everything appears fine.

I can receive messages, just unable to send.

enfield_freddy

anyone else using intel 5500 graphics and suffering from a display that flashes off and on at random?


simple setting hidden in intel display proggy sorts it , set the wrong way by default

grumpycrab

Lorian wrote: »

It does appear you need to reserve your free upgrade in Win 7 before doing an upgrade from media, otherwise you are asked for a key.

That's a strange one. Do you have a link? Ta.

Jivesinger

Lorian wrote: »

It does appear you need to reserve your free upgrade in Win 7 before doing an upgrade from media, otherwise you are asked for a key.

My understanding is that if you run setup.exe on the Windows 10 media from within Win 7 (or 8.1), it should upgrade without needing a key. If you boot from the media then I suspect it will ask for a key.

So for the initial upgrade you should run setup.exe from within the earlier version of Windows. Once this is upgraded and (importantly) activated, then you can boot from the media and clean-install if you so wish.

That's how I understand it, anyway.

enfield_freddy

ok , I can understand the upgrade path, however how does the media on a pendrive or dvd know your old win ser number when you do a clean install ?


a hell of a lot of computers come with windows pre installed and no serial number is visible on the machine or paperwork

Jivesinger

enfield_freddy wrote: »

ok , I can understand the upgrade path, however how does the media on a pendrive or dvd know your old win ser number when you do a clean install ?


a hell of a lot of computers come with windows pre installed and no serial number is visible on the machine or paperwork

You have to do a Upgrade install first.

The Upgrade reads the previous activated operating system, and if it looks good, it should activate Windows 10.

This activation process stores details of your hardware on a server somewhere, so that if you clean install on the same hardware later, it phones home to the server, recognises the hardware and activates automatically.

I think, anyway...

S0litaire

enfield_freddy wrote: »

ok , I can understand the upgrade path, however how does the media on a pendrive or dvd know your old win ser number when you do a clean install ?


a hell of a lot of computers come with windows pre installed and no serial number is visible on the machine or paperwork

From what I've heard on other technical forms:

If you registered for the upgrade first it took the serial number of your Motherboard and your win7/8/8.1 key.

It logged them with Microsoft which generated a win10 key.

When you install from the DVD/USB stick it uses a temp 30 key. It then authenticates your computer with Microsoft's servers using the motherboard serial and grabs the correct win10 key.