Last chance for a free Windows 10 upgrade
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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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@momurda was it better to buy Windows 7 then upgrade, than to just buy Windows 10 directly?
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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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@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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They didnt want to lose all their stuff.
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@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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@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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@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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@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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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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@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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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. -
Hmmm, activation servers are down.
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@BRRABill said in Last chance for a free Windows 10 upgrade:
Hmmm, activation servers are down.
Are we surprised?
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@Reid-Cooper said in Last chance for a free Windows 10 upgrade:
@BRRABill said in Last chance for a free Windows 10 upgrade:
Hmmm, activation servers are down.
Are we surprised?
Hopefully they'll extend it another week or something.
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@BRRABill said in Last chance for a free Windows 10 upgrade:
@Reid-Cooper said in Last chance for a free Windows 10 upgrade:
@BRRABill said in Last chance for a free Windows 10 upgrade:
Hmmm, activation servers are down.
Are we surprised?
Hopefully they'll extend it another week or something.
NO
This insanity needs to end. If I get ONEEEEE MORE stupid f-ing popup from microsoft...... eye twitches
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@BRRABill said in Last chance for a free Windows 10 upgrade:
@Reid-Cooper said in Last chance for a free Windows 10 upgrade:
@BRRABill said in Last chance for a free Windows 10 upgrade:
Hmmm, activation servers are down.
Are we surprised?
Hopefully they'll extend it another week or something.
No they won't.
If businesses did not see Windows 10 coming for 2 years, then they need to pay the tax of upgrading after the 364 days of free upgrade.
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Just starting one last upgrade at home now
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@Breffni-Potter Yep....
Just nothing else to say about it, you had all this time to make plans to get this done.
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Their phone activation systems are also down.
Nice.
