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    • thwr
      thwr last edited by

      So today is the last day where you can get a free upgrade.

      Will do this on four machines today.

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      • scottalanmiller
        scottalanmiller last edited by

        Only one to do it on here, doing it now.

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        • travisdh1
          travisdh1 last edited by

          Nothing like waiting till the last minute I guess.

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          • scottalanmiller
            scottalanmiller @travisdh1 last edited by

            @travisdh1 said in Last chance for a free Windows 10 upgrade:

            Nothing like waiting till the last minute I guess.

            that's how I roll.

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            • travisdh1
              travisdh1 @scottalanmiller last edited by

              @scottalanmiller said in Last chance for a free Windows 10 upgrade:

              @travisdh1 said in Last chance for a free Windows 10 upgrade:

              Nothing like waiting till the last minute I guess.

              that's how I roll.

              Can't really blame you for avoiding the pain that always stems from dealing with Microsoft.

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              • BRRABill
                BRRABill @travisdh1 last edited by

                @travisdh1 said in Last chance for a free Windows 10 upgrade:

                @scottalanmiller said in Last chance for a free Windows 10 upgrade:

                @travisdh1 said in Last chance for a free Windows 10 upgrade:

                Nothing like waiting till the last minute I guess.

                that's how I roll.

                Can't really blame you for avoiding the pain that always stems from dealing with Microsoft.

                Though the Windows 10 upgrade process has been pretty pain free.

                The one issue I hit a lot was a too small system reserved partition on a lot of machines.

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                • momurda
                  momurda last edited by

                  User brought in their Dell Studio 17" laptop the other day. With Vista. I told them they had to buy Windows 7 then i would do the rest. Upgraded to 7, Windows 10 kept stalling out at 99% on the first part of the upgrade. Turning off Windows update, deleting the first failed Windows BT and ~Q folders fixed the issue next time i ran the upgrade. that was an hour ago.

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                  • Reid Cooper
                    Reid Cooper @momurda last edited by

                    @momurda was it better to buy Windows 7 then upgrade, than to just buy Windows 10 directly?

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                    • momurda
                      momurda last edited by

                      You cant upgrade from Vista to 10 directly, so there had to be a 7 install in there somewhere. before i told them to buy 7 i tried to just install 7 and then upgrade to 10, but it wanted a key for 7 before it would allow me to do that.

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                      • DustinB3403
                        DustinB3403 @Reid Cooper last edited by

                        @Reid-Cooper said in Last chance for a free Windows 10 upgrade:

                        @momurda was it better to buy Windows 7 then upgrade, than to just buy Windows 10 directly?

                        I was thinking this same thing, why bother with the Windows 7 upgrade to Windows 10....

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                        • momurda
                          momurda last edited by

                          They didnt want to lose all their stuff.

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                          • Reid Cooper
                            Reid Cooper @momurda last edited by

                            @momurda said in Last chance for a free Windows 10 upgrade:

                            You cant upgrade from Vista to 10 directly, so there had to be a 7 install in there somewhere. before i told them to buy 7 i tried to just install 7 and then upgrade to 10, but it wanted a key for 7 before it would allow me to do that.

                            Oh, so it isn't for a license update, but because they don't want to do a fresh install?

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                            • DustinB3403
                              DustinB3403 @momurda last edited by

                              @momurda said in Last chance for a free Windows 10 upgrade:

                              You cant upgrade from Vista to 10 directly, so there had to be a 7 install in there somewhere. before i told them to buy 7 i tried to just install 7 and then upgrade to 10, but it wanted a key for 7 before it would allow me to do that.

                              But why not do a clean install, likely there is all sorts of crap on a Windows Vista machine at this point...

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                              • Reid Cooper
                                Reid Cooper @momurda last edited by

                                @momurda said in Last chance for a free Windows 10 upgrade:

                                They didnt want to lose all their stuff.

                                That's what backups are for... for people that don't want to lose their stuff.

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                                • DustinB3403
                                  DustinB3403 @momurda last edited by

                                  @momurda said in Last chance for a free Windows 10 upgrade:

                                  They didnt want to lose all their stuff.

                                  But they wouldn't... backup the user data and reinstall any required apps. Far less headache.

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                                  • momurda
                                    momurda last edited by

                                    nah, took maybe ten minutes of me thinking and restarting the upgrade to 10. would have been hours reinstalling all their applications.

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                                    • DustinB3403
                                      DustinB3403 @momurda last edited by

                                      @momurda said in Last chance for a free Windows 10 upgrade:

                                      nah, took maybe ten minutes of me thinking and restarting the upgrade to 10. would have been hours reinstalling all their applications.

                                      Aren't you the least bit concerned about whatever crap might still be residing on the drive though? Vista is ancient. I'd be worried about viruses and malware still on the system.

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                                      • momurda
                                        momurda last edited by

                                        Well, im pretty sure the upgrade process runs their mrt.exe at some point. I think i ran MalwareBytes beforehand. Also, it is not my computer or a work computer so no i really dont care.
                                        I told them that too, and theyre ok with it. I would have told them to get a new laptop, but this one has an old core2 duo and 6GB RAM so still very useable.

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                                        • BRRABill
                                          BRRABill last edited by

                                          Hmmm, activation servers are down.

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                                          • Reid Cooper
                                            Reid Cooper @BRRABill last edited by

                                            @BRRABill said in Last chance for a free Windows 10 upgrade:

                                            Hmmm, activation servers are down.

                                            Are we surprised?

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