Not tonight, I have had enough. It is still downloading the other stuff.
Windows 10 - finally time to move?
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Keep making jokes, it is really helping
I'm serious
a clean install means it keeps nothing from your old computer
And upgrade means you keep your old applications but with the new operating system
You make this choice when you run the win 10 installer thats called Media Creation Tool
This you can burn to a cd or put on a USB key
And upgrade means you keep your old applications but with the new operating system
You make this choice when you run the win 10 installer thats called Media Creation Tool
This you can burn to a cd or put on a USB key
The latter is often MESSY. It can be a good idea if you know what you're doing to do a clean install while keeping backups of all the settings folders for all your applications, then manually just copy them across into the fresh Win10 install.
always do a clean install imo
only my operating system is on its own drive all my media is on other drives
only my operating system is on its own drive all my media is on other drives
I believe that I did the latter.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
Ahhh OK
What's it doing now?
did you get all the Intel drivers installed or what stage are you at
if it was me I'd format and do it again if it's Stuck
What's it doing now?
did you get all the Intel drivers installed or what stage are you at
if it was me I'd format and do it again if it's Stuck
Start tomorrow 'Arry when your fresh mate.
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I won't ever be moving onto windows 10.
When a program or game i want becomes windows 10 only, then I'll simply have to miss out. I'm never caving in to microsoft.
You want that shiny new thing? Huh, ya like that?! Yeah you know you want it! So here's how much it's going to cost you, oh and i want access to EVERYTHING you do on it at all times and if you try to bypass any of it, well we'll simply undo it all next update, oh and you will update. YOU CAN'T SAY NO TO US ANY MORE! BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
All your information is mine! Every keystroke, everythintg you write in a file, every web page SEEKED and VISITED, time spent on each web page, clicks and click locations, programs you run, things you have installed. Everything you have saved on your hard disks and even portable storage files are mined, and everything your microphone and camera pick up too!
But hey, we just need ALL that information so that we can offer you a "better service and experience". LOL
Before it came out there were a few involved in testing that blew the whistle on what was built-in to the OS, built right into the very fabric of the OS to the point it cannot be removed, and can never really be disabeld or bypassed. So I knew before it went retail to steer clear and i passed the information along to all my family and friends.
I will also share this with you all, i build PCs as a side job, i have built quite a lot since the news became widespread that support for Win7 was about to be cut, but to this day, i get orders with the vast majority of customers asking me to install Win7 and some oddballs even wanting Windows 8.1 LOL they must have fancy touch screens.
I always say upfront, i'll install Win10, but i won't be allowing connections to my internet to do any updates for you.
Perhaps things have changed, i haven't read up on anything about Win10 since that time before it went retail except see lots of rants on youtube about what Win10 is upto in the backound. I doubt it.
'Those who would give up their liberty for DX12 or whatever nonsense, deserve neither' Some guy from 1700's warned us about Windows 10!
When a program or game i want becomes windows 10 only, then I'll simply have to miss out. I'm never caving in to microsoft.
You want that shiny new thing? Huh, ya like that?! Yeah you know you want it! So here's how much it's going to cost you, oh and i want access to EVERYTHING you do on it at all times and if you try to bypass any of it, well we'll simply undo it all next update, oh and you will update. YOU CAN'T SAY NO TO US ANY MORE! BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
All your information is mine! Every keystroke, everythintg you write in a file, every web page SEEKED and VISITED, time spent on each web page, clicks and click locations, programs you run, things you have installed. Everything you have saved on your hard disks and even portable storage files are mined, and everything your microphone and camera pick up too!
But hey, we just need ALL that information so that we can offer you a "better service and experience". LOL
Before it came out there were a few involved in testing that blew the whistle on what was built-in to the OS, built right into the very fabric of the OS to the point it cannot be removed, and can never really be disabeld or bypassed. So I knew before it went retail to steer clear and i passed the information along to all my family and friends.
I will also share this with you all, i build PCs as a side job, i have built quite a lot since the news became widespread that support for Win7 was about to be cut, but to this day, i get orders with the vast majority of customers asking me to install Win7 and some oddballs even wanting Windows 8.1 LOL they must have fancy touch screens.
I always say upfront, i'll install Win10, but i won't be allowing connections to my internet to do any updates for you.
Perhaps things have changed, i haven't read up on anything about Win10 since that time before it went retail except see lots of rants on youtube about what Win10 is upto in the backound. I doubt it.
'Those who would give up their liberty for DX12 or whatever nonsense, deserve neither' Some guy from 1700's warned us about Windows 10!
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I said no, to everything, maybe that is why it is refusing to work properly.
Bill Gates: You DARE say no? TO ME?! I'M GAWD! You'll take my vaccinations and click yes to everything! lol
You're not alone. I carry a bunch of stuff on me for allowing Win7 to install on newer hardware which normally requires Win10 or Linux, because so many people ask me to do it for them.
Sometimes to get around the USB issues, I have to use a PS/2 keyboard, sometimes I need to physically connect a DVD drive to the SATA ports. I'm pretty sure eventually we'll lose all of those from motherboards, and we'll finally be unable to wrangle a Win7 install altogether.
The biggest philanthropist in the world and vaccinations are good for you. I'm not seeing a problem.
People overreact to the security stuff
On my both clean installs I also said no to everything the account creation process asked. Works fine, so I don't think that is the problem.
How long have you had W7 on that particular machine?
I think the "keep your fies & settings" option rarely works well if the W7 / W8 install is older than a year's or two's worth of active use.
At least I had so much really weird problems when I chose that option on my 6 years old W7 install, that I pretty quickly decided to "keep nothing".
Of course, I had moved all files I wanted to keep elsewhere (including E: D journals & controller bindings) . Same story in other words in post #78 of this thread.
I have been using windows 10 at work and I have been helping a friend with this OS for a long time.
Every time I use Windows 10 it feels like someone is sabotaging my actions.
Perhaps now that my own PC has Windows 10 I will finally get used to its convoluted interface.
If you still cannot find your data because windows update arbitrarily decided to get rid of it, I'd recommend not installing anything, until you run a recovery tool on your drive. Something like Recuva or EaseUS. You can likely scrape a majority of your old files from it, though be aware it's probably going to mean leaving the recovery tool on overnight and you will want an external HD of at least the same size as your internal drive to transfer the recovered files to. Ideally several times larger, as often it'll find the same file multiple times.
Gully, This seems to have worked, I can now see some of my old stuff.
I think that the laptop I am using is too old for windows 10 to work properly. Still, in-spite of downloading a number of things to make the videos run, still the same issue. Not sure what the best, non costing option is now. Go back to win 7, or try 8.1?
In answer to Zieman. The Laptop came with windows 7, so since 2011, approximately.