Windows 10 Upgrade Strategies, Pitfalls and Fixes As MSFT Servers Are Hit Hard 187
MojoKid writes: The upgrade cycle begins, with Microsoft's latest operating system--the highly anticipated Windows 10--rolling out over Windows Update for free, for users of Windows 7, 8 and 8.1. For those that are ready to take the plunge over the weekend, there are some things to note. So far, Microsoft has been rolling out the upgrade in waves and stages. If you are not one of the 'lucky' ones to be in the first wave, you can take matters into your own hands and begin the upgrade process manually. While the process is mostly simple, it won't be for everyone. This guide steps through a few of the strategies and pitfalls. There are two main methods to upgrade, either through Windows Update or through the Media Creation Tool. In either case, you will need to have opted-in for the Windows 10 Free Upgrade program to reserve your license. Currently, the Windows Update method is hit or miss due to the requirement for additional updates needing to be installed first and Microsoft's servers being hit hard, leading to some rather humorous error messages like the oh-so helpful description, "Something Happened." Currently, it would be best to avoid the Windows Update upgrade, at least for the time being. Numerous issues with licensing have been reported, requiring manual activation either through the dreaded phone call, or by running slmgr.vbs /ato at the command prompt to force license registration.
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Re:CPU not compatible (Score:5, Informative)
Are you upgrading from Windows 7 (or earlier, or Linux), or from Windows 8/8.1?
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-CA/windows-8/what-is-pae-nx-sse2>Windows 8/8.1 introduced a requirement for SSE2, PAE, and NX.
NX is sometimes disabled in the BIOS. As far as I know there's no additional processor limitations on Windows 10.
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That is a somewhat harsh requirement
It really isn't. AMD has had NX since the introduction of the AMD64 architecture, and Intel introduced it in the Pentium 4 lineup with all but the cheapest of the Core processors supporting it as well.
You'd pushing your luck trying to run Windows 10 on a processor so old that it doesn't support NX anyway. It's almost like requiring computers to have a USB port.
Re:CPU not compatible (Score:4, Informative)
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article... [pcworld.com]
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I had one of those motherboards a few years back...bought it with a Core 2 Quad Q6600, which I think would've been sometime in 2008. After maybe a couple of years or so, the motherboard started acting iffy. I kept the processor, but replaced the motherboard. It's been running on a Gigabyte EP43-UD3L ever since. It currently dual-boots Gentoo Linux and Windows 7 from an SSD, and I threw an old hard drive in it recently t
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Yeah.. I have a Windows 7 Pro virtualbox vm I was going to upgrade to 10, the 7 copy has been blessed and updated by MS, but I'm ALSO told the cpu is not compatible.. The cpu is a Xeon Quadcore W3520, and as far I can tell thats a supported cpu...
Re:CPU not compatible (Score:5, Informative)
I have a Windows 7 Pro virtualbox vm
Full stop, it doesn't matter what chip the host system is running. You need to ensure that VirtualBox is providing all of the required features in the virtual processor.
Re: CPU not compatible (Score:2)
I remember the good old days when developers actual told their users what the problem was when there was an error. Now they just either do nothing or show "Something happened" and leave the poor user trying to find out what's going on via Google with fuck all idea of what to look for.
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To be fair, Windows keeps a lot of helpful logs. There is always the system event log. The Windows Update tool also keeps a detailed history of upgrade success or failure, in grotesque technical detail.
Re: CPU not compatible (Score:2)
True but sometimes it's more hindrance than help especially in the case of "an unexpected error has occurred". Microsoft error messages are often too wordy and utterly useless at the same time.
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It really can be a junk heap, with way too many 32 bit integer error codes and senseless register dumps.
I prefer dmesg and syslog.
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I upgraded my daughter's MacBook Pro in Parallels and it upgraded just fine, so apparently Parallels solved this some time ago.
VirtualBox is free, and definitely inferior to VMWare and Parallels.
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For what I've tried, it seems faster than VMWare Desktop on my Lenovo W520. And so far it's done everything I need in a VM. It's not a hypervisor, but for desktop virtualization, I can't see paying for VMWare anymore.
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I used to feel the same way about VirtualBox, until I paid the money for Workstation.
VirtualBox has lame support for 3d acceleration, making it piss poor for running desktop software that a human will actually use.
If you ran a benchmark comparing VMWare to VirtualBox for performance, like a non-anecdotal one, it might affect your general opinion on things.
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Isn't the VM mostly run on the host CPU?
The instructions are translated to mostly run directly on the host CPU, particularly with new CPU features to support virtual workloads.
Still, the translation is dictated by the virtual host software, and it is the first thing to investigate when a guest needs more/different CPU features. This inquiry may eventually reveal that VirtualBox requires that the host CPU has NX to support it in a guest. More likely it either does not support NX, or it needs to be enabled for guests.
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It is correct either way. The host can have a CPU feature that is hidden in the guest CPU, but it can also provide a virtual version of a feature to the guest using software (read very slow), even if that feature is not available on the host CPU.
The guest only sees the virtual CPU, and typically has no idea what the "real" CPU is.
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Windows 10 error messages (Score:5, Funny)
leading to some rather humorous error messages like the oh-so helpful description, "Something Happened."
Warning : Something's gonna happen
Error : Something happened
Debug : It had to happen
Crash : Why me !
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Re: Windows 10 error messages (Score:2)
In Australia is because they have their locale set to en-au and they are using en-us media.
So far the upgrade process is a mess.
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Edge (Score:3, Funny)
What I find the most annoying is how Edge treats you like a special little snowflake when you're not connected to the internet:
"You're not connected."
"And the web just isn't the same without you."
"Let's get you back online."
Blech.
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I really wasn't impressed with edge at all. The touch interface is very buggy, pinch zoom and scrolling doesn't work past the first few seconds, in desktop mode. the browser stuff takes up a lot of screen real-estate. And still the lack of plugins such as adblock hinders the web experience.
I still don't see the point on drawing on your web page either.
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Chrome does similar cutsy stuff, eg: when a tab crashes.
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Or the OS in general.
"Hi"
"We are getting the desktop ready for you"
The infuriating thing is this text fades in over a 4 second period like a Powerpoint slide from hell by someone who just figured out transitions are a thing.
And no don't say "Hi" to me!
List of privacy violations (Score:3, Interesting)
Here is a collage of privacy violations in Windows 10. [imgur.com] Is it really an upgrade?
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If you had actually looked at the image. These are things that are not optional (unless you call upgrading to windows 10 optional), and while there are settings, Microsoft indicates that they well respect these settings only in some situations.
If your company needs to sign NDA's, you can't run Windows 10. GPLv3 is peanuts compared to this.
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If you had actually looked at the image.
I looked at the image. It was a scathing trainwreck of sentence fragments, poorly encoded screenshots, and vitriol.
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If you had actually looked at the image.
I looked at the image. It was a scathing trainwreck of sentence fragments, poorly encoded screenshots, and vitriol.
so what's the truth? Looking at the graphic I see some "spying" stuff that can be turned off, some spying stuff that can't be turned off, and some crap that will turn itself back on even if you turn it off.
So, what's the truth? What exactly can't be turned off that would be considered "spying"???
I know a guy who thinks that Ubuntu has spyware, and he also thinks win10 has spyware.
Is this like that? An overreaction? Or is this microsoft's attempt to turn into google, only creepier?
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If you don't trust Microsoft, using Windows is a pretty dangerous proposition, regardless of 7, 8, 8.1, 10. Certain viewpoints would notice that your operating system has various rootkit like properties, when trust is an issue.
My observation is that they are trying to push Microsoft cloud based services on you with difficult to find skip buttons. Not having a live account or at least refusing to type in credentials seems to help a lot! There is a place in setup where they offer, "express settings", which
Re:List of privacy violations (Score:5, Insightful)
And some of them aren't. I don't want MS to be able to access my e-mails or personal data even if they do have a "good faith reason" to do so, thank you. I won't touch Win10 with a barge pole.
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Or you could just ... you know. ... not enable those features?
I mean it's not like each of them doesn't have an "on/off" switch next to them.
Re:List of privacy violations (Score:4, Insightful)
I'm moving to Linux. I run a desktop, and I don't need anything that requires me to let any company peruse my data at will for "badness", or injects Ads INTO the OS - that used to be *called* MALWARE.
I already have a crappy annoying spying random upgrading experience in my Android phone, I DO NOT WANT on my desktop.
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I do run my own email server.
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Unless it's encrypted end-to-end, a 3rd party still has access to your email.
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That's right, you non-patching bastard! The internet is filled with worms like blaster and nimda, and they will never go away because of idiots who don't patch against critical vulnerabilities.
Aside from patches that correctly fix legitimate vulnerabilities, Microsoft also has a history of releasing broken updates (and fixing them later when they've already done damage), removing features from their products, releasing "important" updates that are ads for future products, adding annoying new "features" to already-released OSes, and similar behaviors. They aren't the ones that I want as the ultimate gatekeeper of how my computer works.
Aside from that, I'm not going to use any OS that reboots itse
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Does that bridge come with Wireshark logs or just a tinfoil hat?
This won't end well.... (Score:4, Insightful)
Suggestion....
Everyone please wait on this for any seriously important machines. If something goes wrong here- it's going to go very wrong.
And as a reference: "very wrong" does not infer "goodness".
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Well, no one with any sense in IT goes anywhere near this close to the bleeding edge. This thing as all things similarly new should be relegated for testing and experimentation.
Although my own personal opinion is that I feel sorry for Windows users...
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Agreed. Most of my serious stuff is Linux.
I just made the comment because these young guppies haven't seen the carnage we've seen. We've been around.
Re:This won't end well.... (Score:4, Insightful)
However... From my experience, the leading edge systems have been getting much MUCH better.
Many of the core stuff has been stabilized for years.
Windows 10 still uses the NT based Kernel. Like the previous versions. Most of the drivers are the same as well. The buggy stuff are in the new features, that are often not yet implemented into the prod environment anyways.
The bad old days of the 1990's seem to be over for now. Quality is much better sense then. We can do a lot of things now without much fear of bad consequences.
Just like in the 1990's we stopped having to worry so much about failure in RAM as a major issue, because RAM has became a rather reliable component on the system.
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Others disagree [neowin.net] with your assertion of 10.
It is very beta compared to 8.1
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However it isn't crashing left and right. There are mostly just a little annoyances.
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Agreed. Most of my serious stuff is Linux.
I just made the comment because these young guppies haven't seen the carnage we've seen. We've been around.
Ain't that the troof!
I've stored up a lifetime's worth of nasty Windows memories, with some highlites of them making perfectly good peripherals obsolete, update hell, the removal of employees previously free version of Office, Ribbons, and Windows 8. And so much more! My hatred runs deep.
So I did need to do some Windows 10 support already - not a 10 problem, but that was the guy's OS. So I got W10 installed on a sacrificial computer. Took 4 hours to become proficient enough to not embarrass myself.
An
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Agreed. Most of my serious stuff is Linux.
serious stuff...
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No one goes on the bleeding edge, often the leading edge for production environments. But it is handy for your personal usage, as well for system testing. As the Leading Edge OS, may become you standard reliable OS.
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"No one goes on the bleeding edge, often the leading edge for production environments. "
You obviously haven't worked where I've worked. Even right now I am working on a project where they wrote their own mocking framework for IOC. They couldn't be bothered to wait for one to implement this AWESOME (TM) new idea (that as far as I can see does more harm than good).
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When you say "Production Environment" that sounds to me like running services with it.
I don't think anyone with half a brain would consider using a desktop OS for a server doing Real Things. A basic dev setup for doing web dev type stuff like LAMP or MEAN while you are traveling, etc - sure no problem. But to put it "out there" and make it available? Hah.
The folks who *should* be getting with it now are the "websmiths" or whatever you want to call those folks that are good at design, layout, using JQuery
No problems for me yet (Score:4, Informative)
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Limited Time.... (Score:2)
There could be less demand, If we really had a good handle on the limited time to upgrade for free window.
There are a lot of people who are not in a rush to get windows 10. However this limited time means they might as well upgrade now vs waiting too long and having to pay for it. (Yes I am wide open about Free/Open Source Linux advantages...) But is it that important to give an artificial high demand to make investors thinks people really REALLY want the upgrade. vs just Getting it now for Free, vs wai
Re:Limited Time.... (Score:4, Informative)
There could be less demand, If we really had a good handle on the limited time to upgrade for free window.
We have a good handle, it's one year. From their webpage [microsoft.com]
Is the upgrade really free?
Yes, it’s free. This is a full version of Windows, not a trial or introductory version. It is available for a limited time: you have until July 29, 2016 to take advantage of this offer. Once you upgrade, you’ll have Windows 10 for free on that device.
I think Microsoft is trying to drum up business by pushing it through WU, have the concept of "reserving" your free upgrade that you have a year to claim.
Just like they did when Windows 7 came out, they want to be able to have numbers that say "Look at how many people upgraded in the first 2 months. This is the most of any version of Windows ever!"
Myself I'm playing with it in a VM, but will probably wait a couple months before upgrading my main OS.
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"Look at how many people upgraded in the first 2 months. This is the most of any version of Windows ever!"
The Apple Metric. Good to see Microsoft following standard business practices. ;)
process to upgrade any Windows install (Score:1)
Go here [kubuntu.org] or here [linuxmint.com] or here [debian.org] or here [opensuse.org].
All have excellent upgrades available to any version of Windows.
Download in progress (Score:2)
I'd always planned to burn .isos anyhow, so this is a good option for me. (Yeah, yeah, "USB stick, blah, blah". Why am I going to use a $5 USB stick instead of a $0.50 DVD for something I don't expect to use more than once or twice?)
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Well. After my "holier than thou" comments on cheap DVDs, I ended up having to "burn" my USB stick to do the actual install/upgrade. It turns out my laptop drive isn't DVD-R compatible, only DVD+R. *LOL*
The upgrade itself was painless, though time consuming. It took about 3 hours once I finally had the USB burned. All of my database servers, VLC, etc. seem to work just fine. (Lenovo Z580 with dual-core i7, originally shipped with Windows 7 Home.)
Still drivers issues with the Surface pro. (Score:2, Interesting)
The surface pro and Surface pro 2 BOTH have had non stop issues with wireless drivers for two reasons.
1 - microsoft chose the shittiest wireless chipset made on the planet, the Marvell Avastar 88W8797 Wireless
2 - The drivers were written by drunken morons.
you can easily bork the wireless that require you to delete the device, uninstall the drivers, reboot, re detect and then reinstall the drivers. I was hoping that microsoft had fixed this with windows 10, but nope. it's the exact same crap windows 8 drive
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What? (Score:5, Interesting)
Looking at how the update was going to be done, I left the machine on overnight idling.
On the thirtieth, I was notified I was ready, and upgraded. Could not have been easier.
I would have thought that reserving on rollout day would have put me in a long waiting line, and of course there would be a lot of serverhammer (c) on the first few days.
The whole process was flawless, and thank gawdd for that. My original plan was to wait until near the end of the update cycle and see how things were going. Make a decision on staying with 7 or not. But a fellow I was doing some software/hardware troubleshooting with foolishly updated to W10 thinking it would fix his problem, so I needed to know a little about ten before I took remote control of his computer
The results stunned me. Everything just worked. I didn't have to go to the web to figure out simple things like I did in W8. After 4 hours of playing around in it, I was ready to support it. Windows 8 was so nasty, I refused to support it.
Perhaps a Ballmerless company grew some balls here, listened to it's customers, and did it right. Really a tough job taking the steaming pile of shit that was W8, and turning it into something a confirmed Unix like devotee such as myself likes.
There's
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I turned down the discounted (or was it free?) Win8 upgrade on a Win7 laptop I bought because I knew it was garbage. I feel less apprehensive about Win10 after seeing so many Youtube videos and reading so many articles. Since I'm on the bottom of the upgrade criteria, still running Windows 7, I feel it is time to upgrade. I'm still weighing out upgrade vs. fresh install. I have a lot of software I don't want to install again and a copy of office 2010 that has reached its activation limit.
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As an old tyme Windows hater, I'm not getting some of this. On the 29th I reserved my upgrade.
Huh? I find it unlikely that anyone who described themselves as a windows hater would upgrade to the latest version of the OS, much less on release day. You can turn in your card at the main office...
On a sacrificial computer, and because I had a support task to perform that was on a Windows ten computer. Some times ya gotta do what ya gotta do.
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As an old tyme Windows hater, I'm not getting some of this. On the 29th I reserved my upgrade.
Huh? I find it unlikely that anyone who described themselves as a windows hater would upgrade to the latest version of the OS, much less on release day. You can turn in your card at the main office...
lets play spot the shill. You scored the first point. Good job!
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lets play spot the shill. You scored the first point. Good job!
there seems to be a lot of them out right now. Even NPR had a piece that was so bafflingly one sided that if it wasn't paid for by Microsoft, then NPR got ripped off bad...
I think they have a nice OS and it did install easily, but so does 7. Is it better than 7? I don't know. I doubt it, but I don't like having the nuts and bolts hidden so much. Maybe it's more user friendly for the low tech users.
They are probably trying to be like Mac OS. Are trying "free" to be more like Google or Linux?
Either way, windows 7 is supported until at least 2020 so I'll probably just stick to that. My concern with 10 is all the BS they have built in for 'gathering information' and 'learn more a
Reserve your copy today! (Score:2)
I performed an in-place upgrade on my Win 7 laptop, and it didn't ask for a key. I then swapped out the Hard Drive with a blank one, and installed Windows 10 clean from CD. It
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The whole process was flawless
I have a Surface 3 Pro, so pretty much the only device that Microsoft can absolutely 100% guarantee to support with a working upgrade process as they know the exact intricacies of the system.
On the 30th I didn't have anything read so I checked the Windows update history logs. There was a LONG list of "Failed" upgrades called "Windows 10 Pro" in the the list.
It didn't go perfectly for everyone. I ended up deleting all the contents of the C:\$windows.BT\ folder and then forcing windows update to download the
There's? (Score:2)
I think your W10 upgrade failed. ;)
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> Perhaps a Ballmerless company grew some balls here, listened to it's customers
Oh you can bet they're listening to you [imgur.com].
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Fuck you. I had no problems with Windows 8. The problem was, is, and always will be idiots like you who are just not intelligent enough to adapt to even the smallest changes.
IBM mainframes in the 70's
MS-DOS
AmigOS
AmigaDOS
Apple since mid 80s
Windows since 3.1
Vista stunk, and windows 8 damn near killed the desktop industry it was so bad. Others? not too bad. W10 so far? Not too bad at all.
No - sorry, AC. if you cannot see that Windows 8 is a hot steaming pile of shit, Its your lack of intelligence. Not those with the ability and experience to judge it.
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LOL, most of us don't have problems adapting to new tech. It's when the new tech is a pile of shit that makes people not want to adapt the new tech.
Hopefully he is just trolling. Otherwise dumb as a rock.
When to upgrade? (Score:2)
So, my sense is that Windows 10 is the "odd-numbered" version that I'll eventually end up upgrading to. Right now I do most of my serious stuff on linux, and maintain a decent windows 7 PC mainly for gaming purposes (since I still have many games that are not linux-compatible). I tend to view my windows PC more like a gaming console as a result.
So, when is the right time to upgrade? I suspect that it will be once DirectX 12 is available, stable, and in some kind of use. At the very least I'll want to wa
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Everyone recommends to do an upgrade in place so that Microsoft will activate your Win 10 license. Once you have confirmed that the Win 10 key is active, you can than wipe and reinstall, this time from scratch. Even if you do a clean install, the installer might save your entire old setup in C:\Windows.old and I haven't figured out how to force the installer to format the drive without making a backup of the old system.
Otherwise, it seems like a normal OS once your disable about two dozen major privacy and
Buggy as hell. No rush (Score:2)
Do not bother upgrading folks if what you have works fine unless you have a pyschotic episode with the flat look of 8.1 and can't find classic start.
There are many many bugs [neowin.net]. Items do not fill in properly in menus. Adhock wifi not available, disjointed tiles in TV and music, Edge crashing, Edge having no extensions, poor battery life on the surface pro 3, One drive not having placeholders, Grove not having select all on playlists, .NET 4.6 JIT tail bug where arguments get scrambled, and many many others in
Anecdotal browser slowdown (Score:2)
To activate, you MUST upgrade not clean install (Score:2)
Turns out that to activate, you MUST do the upgrade from an activated Windows 7/8/8.1. Apparently that will register the hardware signature for the activated Windows 10 on Microsoft's servers. After you've upgraded to Windows 10 that way, you can then go back and do a clean install if desired - because that hardware
$Windows.~BT (Score:2)
Why do I have a 6.55GB $Windows.~BT folder if it won't let me upgrade yet? If it already downloaded everything at some point, shouldn't the install just start? Why stagger the installs and not the downloads? I thought the point was to not hammer the servers with lots of downloads at once...
WSUS reports windows 10 as Vista when will MS fix (Score:2)
WSUS reports windows 10 as Vista when will MS fix that?
Microsoft account required for Cortana (Score:3)
In order to use Cortana, you have to switch your Windows login to be your Microsoft account. No, thanks! I have no intention of changing my desktop login to be my Microsoft account. Cortana will have to wait.
Wi-Fi Sense (Score:2)
Of all of these data-sharing policies, Wi-Fi Sense is the craziest. How many places out there share their Wi-Fi passwords with selected people? Microsoft makes no effort to get the Wi-Fi owner's permission to share a password.
If one visitor has W10 and 100 contacts, and each of those 100 contacts has another 100 contacts, and each of those... It's not clear just how the password will propagate, but it could well be that sharing with a single W10 use essentially makes the password public. This is not why we
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Actually, supposedly Wi-Fi sense will not share the passwords with the contacts of the contacts. Notheless, it's a major legal and security disaster waiting to happen.
I can no longer trust any guest with my wi-fi passwords because I don't want hundreds of people, who I may or may not know have access to the heart of my LAN. All those independent coffee shops with WLAN secured by a single password will have their Wi-Fi leached by people who are not customers. If not careful, one could also leak with Wi-Fi se
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And the problem is not just with _guests_. If I want my family member's laptop to be on the regular WLAN with me, I would have to make sure, if they use Windows 10, that this Wi-Fi sense BS is turned off. Of course, one day I will not be around when my uncle visits my place, he gets the password, and then suddenly all his facebook buddies have access to my WLAN.
There can be something like a million ways to exploit this issue in a million of inane ways. Want to snoop around on your ex's WLAN? Check what good
Two days spent trying to upgrade.. (Score:2)
I have been trying to update from Windows 7 using the MediaCreation tool method. The direct update never worked for me. At some point, it would crash and close down, sometimes in the middle of download, or sometimes in the middle of verifying media, etc. No useful errors. What did work was to use the MediaCreation tool to download an ISO image of the OS. Burn it on a DVD, then unpack everything back on my desktop (not sure if this last setup is necessary), and then run the setup.exe from there.
Windows sounds easier to update than Debian. (Score:1, Insightful)
I hate to say it, but after reading the article, the problems affecting these Windows upgrades seem very minor compared to the problems I had upgrading some Debian 7 systems to Debian 8. The first clue I got that something was wrong was when the upgraded systems wouldn't completely boot. After digging into it I found out that Debian 8 uses something called systemd, and that lots of other people have experienced severe problems with it, too. Well I don't want to bore anyone with the long story of my struggle
Re: Windows sounds easier to update than Debian. (Score:2)
1) All other distros that are defaulting to systemd (Arch, Fedora/RHEL/CentOS, Opensuse, Mageia etc.) seem to have generated fewer uograde issues (percentage wise) than Debian. Maybe Debian rushed through the switch-to-systemd testing because they were stuck debating it for so long.
2) To be a vslid comparison, you shoulf have started with FreeBSD9, applied any customisations you had on your Debian installation, and then upgraded.
Systemd has some minor issues in some situations, bit on the whole I think it
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I repeatedly see the people here who describe the problems they've had with systemd called "trolls".
There is a systematic marketing/PsyOps campaign aimed at discrediting anybody and everybody that dares to criticize the new one true god of systemd. The reason these people are called trolls, are insulted, theri complaints are ignored, etc. is that the systemd proponents actually have very little technological arguments in favor of systemd and none at all for the way it is pushed by force on nearly every Linux user at the moment. At the same time there is a host of convincing technological arguments against
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And as much as I thought SystemD was stupid and a solution in search of a problem, I much prefer inelegant technical solutions to design decisions that spy on you and segment features based on whether you're "enterprise" enough.
Also, SL7 is as solid for me as 6 so it's basically learning some new stuff unnecessarily. Well, I've given up on *anyone* leaving UIs the hell alone, and systemD seems to be decently backward compatible with init scripts and the service control syntax.
Now that I plan to try very har
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Which is fine.
I had my Linux for a desktop kick for a while back in the late 1990 and early 2000s
then I was on on Solaris for a while, then Mac OS.
I am actually trailing on a Windows kick, it is getting to a point where I may want to switch a again.
Nothing is wrong with any of these system they have their pluses and minus.
However OS X and Windows, is less struggling for hardware compatibility. Linux seems to be hit or miss, unless you invest a lot of time trying to determine if it is compatible enough, as
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However OS X and Windows, is less struggling for hardware compatibility. Linux seems to be hit or miss, unless you invest a lot of time trying to determine if it is compatible enough, as many of discussions on such hardware fail to state if it works with a distribution or not.
IME the big stuff is iffy on Linux, the small stuff on Windows. But there's a user in this thread finding that Windows 10 refuses to install on his Core 2 Quad [slashdot.org]. Maybe Linux actually has better hardware support than Windows? I think it does. I think if you took a windows disc and a Linux disc and tried to install both on every single PC on the planet, that you would have better luck with the Linux disc. In the trial, you are permitted to install only authorized packages, meaning drivers either direct from th
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When I want to be very productive, I step away from the computer.
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Hey, my upgrade strategy is almost the same, to keep Windows 7 for games and audio recording and otherwise stay with GNU/Linux.
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Click on the gear icon within the search box popup and you can turn Cortana and web search off.
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You have been punished for being dense enough to use Windows Explorer.
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Total Commander.
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I don't think you've used Total Commander Ultima Prime, furthermore there's no functionality that Windows Explorer would have and TC wouldn't.
Using TC since ages and frankly Windows Explorer is something I haven't started in months.
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And that's because Windows and not Autodesk how, exactly?