Windows 10

grumpycrab

Thank guys. I believe that registering (via the notification tray "Get Win10" app) has NOTHING to do with activation. I asked the original question because Lorian said he needed to reserve Win10 in order to do a media upgrade in Win7 (I haven't done a media upgrade in Win7 yet). You certainly don't have to register to do a media upgrade in Win8 (or Win 8.1).

The Win10 key generation (for the upgrade) is done at upgrade time. This is why you must do the upgrade BEFORE a clean install.
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/wiki/insider_wintp-insider_install/how-to-upgrade-from-previous-versions-of-windows/31722b30-1da9-42bb-b331-0edc4649bf43

PS. The advantage of doing a media upgrade is that you don't need all the OS updates in Win7 or 8 or 8.1 in order to perform the upgrade.

Jim431

I installed Win10 from a DVD ISO onto a Win7 PC.

You start Windows 7 and then insert the DVD and run the ISO to start the install. No MS Product Keys required.

If you boot into the DVD then you need a retail MS Product Key or a special MS key to do the load and then enter your (OEM) MS Product Key after install to get it running. Tho I haven't checked if this does in fact work.

It automaticall downloads new versions of your installed applications.

My NVIDIA display wasn't compatible so the online upgrade wouldn't work. Win10 does work OK like this but you only get the basic MS video driver. 3G graphics and other advanced features don't work so Google Earth won't run. So likely problems with other applications and games. I reverted to Win7 and will have to make do with Win10 in Virtualbox.

Nvidia have apparently said that they wont upgrade legacy drivers so there will be many older PCs running Win7 with disappointed owners.

Big_Graeme

Jim431 wrote: »

Nvidia have apparently said that they wont upgrade legacy drivers so there will be many older PCs running Win7 with disappointed owners.

They have updates for cards released in 2006, anything old then you really do need to let go.

Roger1

Roger1 wrote: »

Also, I would like to continue using Chrome, which is automatically disabled. In another forum, I saw the advice to uninstall and reinstall Chrome. I did that but now can't find Chrome. Oh dear.

In the end, I'm using Firefox again. Now to get rid of Bing ...

custardy

Big_Graeme wrote: »

They have updates for cards released in 2006, anything old then you really do need to let go.

Agreed. outwith an old laptop with onboard. An upgrade>2006 is going to cost very little.

Jim431

PC motherboard came with NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 onboard - new in Nov 2009.

So an old design display adapter but sold for many years.

I expect the demand for compatible second hand graphic boards will shoot up

peachyprice

hollie.weimeraner wrote: »

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.

Yes, me. Exactly the same. Test sends but emails don't.

I use this laptop for business and TBH, I don't have the time to faff around with emails not sending, I've just restored to W8. Took 10 mins and now I can carry on as normal.

I did like W10, so if there is an easy fix for this I'll be happy to go back, but ATM it's a major problem I don't need.

Fightsback

peachyprice wrote: »

Yes, me. Exactly the same. Test sends but emails don't.

I use this laptop for business and TBH, I don't have the time to faff around with emails not sending, I've just restored to W8. Took 10 mins and now I can carry on as normal.

I did like W10, so if there is an easy fix for this I'll be happy to go back, but ATM it's a major problem I don't need.

Use Thunderbird

https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/thunderbird/

custardy

Jim431 wrote: »

PC motherboard came with NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 onboard - new in Nov 2009.

So an old design display adapter but sold for many years.

I expect the demand for compatible second hand graphic boards will shoot up

I doubt it will. You are talking very low end. Plenty around already servcing small media PCs etc.

grumpycrab

peachyprice wrote: »

emails don't [send]

Which program? The "app" or WLM or Outlook...

EDIT: **need somebody to test this for outlook**

Click on the search icon, search on cmd when you find the application (Command Prompt) run as administrator (i.e. right click it and click run as administrator). You will then see a rectangular black window appear with folder> then type in "sfc /scannow" (no "") and sit back and wait (takes a while to run).

When finished type in exit. Then close outlook, restart.