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Windows 10 Announced
MilesAhead:
Any tips for upgrading to Windows 10 now?
=> upgrading from 8.1, I'm going try keeping programmes unless advised otherwise.
I've installed all security updates for 8.1 (other updates *not* installed)
TIA :up:
-tomos (January 06, 2016, 02:19 PM)
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I never installed it on the metal. Just in a few VMs and not lately. There is a friendly bunch who have messed with it extensively on this forum who may have some good advice to share.
4wd:
Any tips for upgrading to Windows 10 now?
=> upgrading from 8.1, I'm going try keeping programmes unless advised otherwise.-tomos (January 06, 2016, 02:19 PM)
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Image your drive beforehand :)
I bit the bullet and told it to 'Download Now, Upgrade Later' ... in my case, Microsoft's definition of 'later' was a bit different from mine. The download started immediately and when it was finished it said it wanted to restart to perform the upgrade ... WTF!?
So I imaged it before I restarted, not the optimum solution.
Anyway, the upgrade was fine - all installed programs worked after upgrade, (eg. DaemonTools, DOpus, Sony Vegas, Malwarebytes AM, VPN software, etc), even ClassicStart. I don't have an AV installed apart from Microsoft's.
The only things that screwed up were file associations, it now wanted to use Edge instead of PaleMoon, Reader instead of PDF-Xchange, and a couple of others.
It also had to download a newer video driver but that was all on the hardware side of things.
tomos:
^ thanks guys :up:
dr_andus:
I bit the bullet and told it to 'Download Now, Upgrade Later' ... in my case, Microsoft's definition of 'later' was a bit different from mine. The download started immediately and when it was finished it said it wanted to restart to perform the upgrade ... WTF!?
-4wd (January 06, 2016, 06:09 PM)
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Really? Is that how it works? Is there no backing out at that stage?
MilesAhead:
I bit the bullet and told it to 'Download Now, Upgrade Later' ... in my case, Microsoft's definition of 'later' was a bit different from mine. The download started immediately and when it was finished it said it wanted to restart to perform the upgrade ... WTF!?
-4wd (January 06, 2016, 06:09 PM)
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Really? Is that how it works? Is there no backing out at that stage?
-dr_andus (January 06, 2016, 06:50 PM)
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Since my System Restore does not work anyway, I have Windows Update set to Never. For those who wish to leave the service running I think there are utilities to turn off the aggressive W10 forced updates. You might check Softpedia and some of the other download sites. In the Softpedia Windows Desktop News page I keep seeing mention of their release.
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