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If you have an hp 8610 printer DO NOT upgrade yet.

To save yourself frustration, don't upgrade to Win10 yet. Too many issues.

To upgrade to Windows 10:
http://msft.gq/gxn/

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GXN is a small utility that helps you upgrade your current Windows 7, Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 Preview installation to Windows 10 RTM without any waiting or reservation.

This tool provides a few enhancements over the Media Creation Tool from Microsoft. As an example, GXN is able to identify and clean up temporary files from previous failed installation attempts, thus lowering the chance of setup not working significantly. GXN will continue receiving updates for the app itself and will always provide the most up-to-date copy of Windows 10 Microsoft offers.

These are the following prerequisites you need for GXN to work properly:
    
.NET Framework 4.5
Windows 7 or newer
An active internet connection
Administrator rights
Please report any bugs you've found using DMs on Twitter, @Whistler4Ever.

If you want to install Windows 10 on a computer that does not have an internet connection, use this:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
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Re: Windows 10
« Reply #500 on: September 25, 2016, 12:14:53 AM »
Quote from: shulem92 on September 24, 2016, 11:42:38 PM
Just block automatic updates...
Or schedule a restart time.
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Re: Windows 10
« Reply #501 on: September 25, 2016, 12:45:15 AM »
Quote from: churnbabychurn on September 24, 2016, 10:09:22 PM
Wow, this is insane !

I had something very important to do tonight on my stupid home PC. It's been an hour already of this cr@p.

I meant to do the metered connection thing weeks ago...

Does windows not know that normal ppl use their PC's and are don't appreciate the darn thing shutting down in the middle of nowhere??!!? 


Somebody sued Microsoft because of the forced updates and got $10k.
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Re: Windows 10
« Reply #502 on: September 25, 2016, 02:02:01 AM »
Quote from: David Smith on September 25, 2016, 12:45:15 AM
Somebody sued Microsoft because of the forced updates and got $10k.
I find it hard to believe that its still possible to sue them. If they lost a lawsuit, they probably got their backsides covered by now
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Re: Windows 10
« Reply #503 on: September 25, 2016, 02:36:54 AM »
Quote from: David Smith on September 25, 2016, 12:45:15 AM
Somebody sued Microsoft because of the forced updates and got $10k.
In that case it was an unauthorized upgrade TO windows 10, and it completely trashed her computer. Something tells me she lost alot more than waiting for a windows update to complete..
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Re: Windows 10
« Reply #504 on: September 25, 2016, 02:51:09 AM »
Quote from: David Smith on September 25, 2016, 12:45:15 AM
Somebody sued Microsoft because of the forced updates and got $10k.
Forced update to Windows 10 and crashed his computer.
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Re: Windows 10
« Reply #505 on: September 25, 2016, 03:11:03 AM »
Whoops didn't see Mr PC geek
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Re: Windows 10
« Reply #506 on: September 25, 2016, 04:35:40 PM »
Quote from: David Smith on September 25, 2016, 12:45:15 AM
Somebody sued Microsoft because of the forced updates and got $10k.
Should be posted to DDMS...  ;D
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Re: Windows 10
« Reply #507 on: September 25, 2016, 06:15:59 PM »
Quote from: churnbabychurn on September 24, 2016, 10:09:22 PM
Wow, this is insane !

I had something very important to do tonight on my stupid home PC. It's been an hour already of this cr@p.

I meant to do the metered connection thing weeks ago...

Does windows not know that normal ppl use their PC's and are don't appreciate the darn thing shutting down in the middle of nowhere??!!? 


How long did it take it in end... Going on a few hours here...
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Re: Windows 10
« Reply #508 on: September 25, 2016, 08:19:12 PM »
Quote from: A3 on September 25, 2016, 06:15:59 PM
How long did it take it in end... Going on a few hours here...
Many hours.. dunno, left it overnight. Woke up to a black screen with a spinner...
I hard restarted. It rolled back to a previous version... Aka update failed..

I give up on playing around with 10...

7 pro ftw.
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Re: Windows 10
« Reply #509 on: September 25, 2016, 09:31:32 PM »
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Re: Windows 10
« Reply #510 on: September 25, 2016, 09:46:41 PM »
There's no option to restart the computer anymore? You have to update to restart??
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Re: Windows 10
« Reply #511 on: September 25, 2016, 09:55:30 PM »
Quote from: shulem92 on September 25, 2016, 09:46:41 PM
There's no option to restart the computer anymore? You have to update to restart??
I haven't tried it, but supposedly if you lock the computer (via WIN-L), you can click the power button and then click Restart.
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Re: Windows 10
« Reply #512 on: September 25, 2016, 10:05:38 PM »
It's really crazy what Microsoft has done with the update process.

Is there a logical business reason for it?
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Re: Windows 10
« Reply #513 on: September 25, 2016, 11:44:51 PM »
Quote from: churnbabychurn on September 25, 2016, 10:05:38 PM
It's really crazy what Microsoft has done with the update process.

Is there a logical business reason for it?
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Re: Windows 10
« Reply #514 on: September 26, 2016, 03:41:31 AM »
Quote from: churnbabychurn on September 25, 2016, 10:05:38 PM
It's really crazy what Microsoft has done with the update process.

Is there a logical business reason for it?
They're now doing it for Windows 7 and 8.1

More about all of that here:
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/windowsitpro/2016/08/15/further-simplifying-servicing-model-for-windows-7-and-windows-8-1/
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Re: Windows 10
« Reply #515 on: September 26, 2016, 03:43:16 AM »
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Re: Windows 10
« Reply #516 on: September 26, 2016, 10:08:53 AM »

What a way to start the week. Moving slooooooowwwwwww
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Re: Windows 10
« Reply #517 on: September 26, 2016, 10:12:29 AM »
Quote from: aygart on September 26, 2016, 10:08:53 AM

What a way to start the week. Moving slooooooowwwwwww
This may take a while it true. Might as well take the day off. Bill it to Microsoft.

Eta, I tried again over night, this morning it was stuck in the restart, took out the batter and stuff, ended up completing the install 10 Mon later.
Haven't had time to confirm what works and what doesn't yet
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Re: Windows 10
« Reply #518 on: September 26, 2016, 10:29:32 AM »

When it reached 100
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Re: Windows 10
« Reply #519 on: September 26, 2016, 11:29:45 AM »
Quote from: aygart on September 26, 2016, 10:08:53 AM

What a way to start the week. Moving slooooooowwwwwww
But why the duplicate display?
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