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Windows 10 Upgrade Thread

How was your upgrade?

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I am done with Yosemite.

Five times full reinstall in six months.

That is enough.

Running El Capitan. Windows 10 now goes to final version.

Windows 10 is much better than windows 8.1. It's still hard to say if it is as great as windows 7 though. However overall software compatibility is great.
 
For those of you who have upgraded a Retina Macbook Pro to Windows 10, is there any difference in how the trackpad feels vs Windows 8? I've always hated how choppy the trackpad feels in Windows, even when running Trackpad+.
 
RenoGuy said:
I will give my impressions of Windows 10!
Tried Home and Pro on 3 different machines.
1) 2 yr old notebook-FAIL BUGGY
2) 2 yr old PC w/i5 and 12 g memory-FAIL BUGGY
3) Mid 2011 Imac w/ 12 g memory under OS X 10.10.4, Parallels 10-FAIL SAME BUGS
Rather than go into great detail, It ran slow as Sh**, where w7 runs fast!
Disk access was slow, and the new browser, EDGE, was fast but a royal pain, waiting for pages to finish loading to use it!
Many "features are "hidden" and you must use the search bar to get to them, including most control panel settings!
In each case, I reverted back to W7!
OS X 10.10.4 runs great here BTW!
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LOL

Windows 10 updated over 8.1 on my 2012 iMac without issue. It is extremely fast and stable. It boots faster than OSX.

ZERO ISSUES.

Many many many many online sources are singing it's praises. Not a single article lambasts it.
 
ATC said:
Did you download the full BootCamp package from Apple (It'll be a zipped file labeled something like BootCamp5 for example and inside you have a setup.exe file). If so, when you run the setup.exe are you getting a "your machine is unsupported" error?
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There are two Boot Camp packages to download. Check you have the right one.
 
FoxMcCloud said:
LOL

Windows 10 updated over 8.1 on my 2012 iMac without issue. It is extremely fast and stable. It boots faster than OSX.

ZERO ISSUES.

Many many many many online sources are singing it's praises. Not a single article lambasts it.
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Apart from The Register who blast everything in existence because they need attention.
 
hfg said:
Will be waiting for your report ... my cMP 5.1 with Windows 8.1 SSD on DUO x2 PCI card is the next machine to try to update.
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Hi hfg,

I'm postponing my Windows 10 upgrade until further notice. I hope other members will troubleshoot this and report it back here!

Cheers
 
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SoyCapitanSoyCapitan said:
Apart from The Register who blast everything in existence because they need attention.
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LOL...Have you seen the "{something happened"} yet? YOU WILL!
Have an Nvidea video card...Driver issues with the FORCED updates from MS!
Try CTRL C for a copy...sometimes it works, sometimes not!
Have more than 512 apps? Just wait!!!
Rather than take up Valuable space on an Apple forum...Try a Google search.
 
FoxMcCloud said:
LOL

Windows 10 updated over 8.1 on my 2012 iMac without issue. It is extremely fast and stable. It boots faster than OSX.

ZERO ISSUES.

Many many many many online sources are singing it's praises. Not a single article lambasts it.
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Really..
LOL...Have you seen the "{something happened"} yet? YOU WILL!
Have an Nvidea video card...Driver issues with the FORCED updates from MS!
Try CTRL C for a copy...sometimes it works, sometimes not!
Have more than 512 apps? Just wait!!!
Rather than take up Valuable space on an Apple forum...Try a Google search.
 
Saudumm said:
I've read reports that a clean install on a previously upgraded and activated VM will activate, too.
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OK, that's something. But I don't think this covers a disaster recovery scenario, when you want to start from scratch. In a year's time you won't be able to upgrade Windows 7/8 for free anymore. An actual Windows 10 upgrade product key would be better so you're covered.
 
drlunanerd said:
OK, that's something. But I don't think this covers a disaster recovery scenario, when you want to start from scratch. In a year's time you won't be able to upgrade Windows 7/8 for free anymore.
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Yeah, that's the downside of the "free upgrade for the first year" - if you buy new hardware after that year, you'll have to buy a license or use whatever Windows version you used before.

Here in Germany, Microsoft isn't legally allowed to bind your license to your hardware and they already announced that they are working on a solution to transfer your Windows 10 "license" to another PC, so I should be able to buy new PC hardware and install Windows 10 on it. It'll be interesting to see which solution Microsoft chooses to transfer the license.
 
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FWIW, from the previously linked Forbes article I downloaded the small free app (ProduKey - direct download link) and it extracted my Windows Pro license key and the person in that article said that doing a full clean install using that key worked perfectly for them. Having your key is just another layer of protection in case you need to re-install.
 
SoyCapitanSoyCapitan said:
My key was emailed to me from MS when I bought Windows online
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Then that's your personal key, but if you upgraded from Windows 7 or 8.1 you'll get a generic key (VK7JG-NPHTM-C97JM-9MPGT-3V66T for the Pro version), because your activation is bound to your hardware. If you want to clean install Windows 10 after the upgrade, you can skip the product key prompts during setup, because Windows 10 will activate itself on that hardware. There's no personal key if you upgrade.
 
ATC said:
I just realized what you're saying, yeah it seems that what I thought was my key is in fact a generic key, the same one you posted later.
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I guess it's safer to skip the key prompts during a clean install. I skipped all key prompts during setup and Windows activated automatically afterwards.
 
Saudumm said:
I guess it's safer to skip the key prompts during a clean install. I skipped all key prompts during setup and Windows activated automatically afterwards.
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I'm guessing what the guy from the Forbes article did was just put in the generic key (thinking it was his own personal key), which is effectively the same as leaving it blank, and it then activated based on hardware signature.
 
Saudumm said:
Yeah, that's the downside of the "free upgrade for the first year" - if you buy new hardware after that year, you'll have to buy a license or use whatever Windows version you used before.

Here in Germany, Microsoft isn't legally allowed to bind your license to your hardware and they already announced that they are working on a solution to transfer your Windows 10 "license" to another PC, so I should be able to buy new PC hardware and install Windows 10 on it. It'll be interesting to see which solution Microsoft chooses to transfer the license.
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Good news for you in Germany, wish Microsoft UK had to do the same!

OK, so what I feared might have happened in that my Win10 upgrade is tied to a VM now. I can't be bothered at the moment trying a full Boot Camp install of Win7 to then upgrade to Win10 again to see if it lets me.
 
drlunanerd said:
Good news for you in Germany, wish Microsoft UK had to do the same!

OK, so what I feared might have happened in that my Win10 upgrade is tied to a VM now. I can't be bothered at the moment trying a full Boot Camp install of Win7 to then upgrade to Win10 again to see if it lets me.
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I'm not entirely sure, but I believe that it is possible to switch hardware during that "free upgrade year", you only have to install Windows 7, activate it and go through the whole upgrade process again. That way, your license should be associated with your "new hardware". Only once the free upgrade offer ends, you're unable to switch hardware.
 
Saudumm said:
Yeah, that's the downside of the "free upgrade for the first year" - if you buy new hardware after that year, you'll have to buy a license or use whatever Windows version you used before.

Here in Germany, Microsoft isn't legally allowed to bind your license to your hardware and they already announced that they are working on a solution to transfer your Windows 10 "license" to another PC, so I should be able to buy new PC hardware and install Windows 10 on it. It'll be interesting to see which solution Microsoft chooses to transfer the license.
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When I moved my Windows 8 Pro x64 SSD on DUO x2 from my Mac Pro 3.1 to my new Mac Pro 5.1, Windows was not activated anymore. I called the MS helpdesk and explained it all to her. She then mailed me a new activation key, all working perfect atm.

KUDOS for MS!

Cheers
 
RenoGuy said:
Really..
LOL...Have you seen the "{something happened"} yet? YOU WILL!
Have an Nvidea video card...Driver issues with the FORCED updates from MS!
Try CTRL C for a copy...sometimes it works, sometimes not!
Have more than 512 apps? Just wait!!!
Rather than take up Valuable space on an Apple forum...Try a Google search.
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Well. My iMac with a GeForce works perfectly fine. I downloaded the latest driver prior to upgrading, but once upgraded found that the driver was already installed.

I have roughly 10 apps installed. I think it will take me a very long time to accrue more than 100 let alone 512.
 
FoxMcCloud said:
Well. My iMac with a GeForce works perfectly fine. I downloaded the latest driver prior to upgrading, but once upgraded found that the driver was already installed.
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RenoGuy said:
Really..
LOL...Have you seen the "{something happened"} yet? YOU WILL!
Have an Nvidea video card...Driver issues with the FORCED updates from MS!
Try CTRL C for a copy...sometimes it works, sometimes not!
Have more than 512 apps? Just wait!!!
Rather than take up Valuable space on an Apple forum...Try a Google search.
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Couldn't you guys take the Windows 10 argument into one of the numerous threads on Windows 10, please?
 
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