It's one thing if it's a have to.
Did anyone get a Windows 10 invite?
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That Issue I thought I was having has disappeared. I have had the SSD back in my machine and it seems to be running really nicely now.
Or just go to the MS download page and download the full ISO which is still free and not a cut down version.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/windows/windows-10-upgrade
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As was mine.
That doesn't follow, my copy of 10 is a full version and free. - Although depending on what kind of student copy it was, your win7 could have been free I guess.
Woke up my PC last night after work to find the Win 10 EULA on the screen. Win 10 had installed itself without my permission. I don't remember seeing the scheduling box shown above. I declined the Win 10 EULA, and was given an option to again accept Win 10 or have Win 7 reinstalled. I chose to go back to Win 7, but when it was done an hour later, Windows refused to boot. Couldn't repair it. So now I have a brick. Pretty ticked off.
I'll try to find the boot disk I created when I got the PC, see if I can save new files since my last backup, and do a reinstall from disk. Not happy with Microsoft right now...
I'd deliberately held off upgrading to Win 10, having an older machine and hearing tales of incompatible hardware and software issues. I'd planned to get a new machine w/ native Win 10 installed and avoid the upgrade hassle. MS took away my choice.
Are Microsoft acting like preadolescent me, and doing a worse job than I did?
We had a PC with DOS. When I first saw Windows 95 on someone else's computer, I immediately wanted to have it. That was, presumably, impossible. Our whole 400 MB hard drive was compressed with Stacker, which was DOS-only, and all programs, data and Win 3.1 were inside a container incompatible with Windows 95. In fact, Microsoft couldn't support it even if they wanted to, because they had lost a lawsuit about it. Even though I was a child, I had enough common sense to tell that Windows 95 was its own OS, incompatible with DOS, despite the urban legends to the contrary, and it would never work.
Well, much like in some versions of the poisoned tomato myth, I decided I wanted Windows 95 so badly, that I was willing to assassinate the whole PC just to get it. So I got an illegal copy, and when my parents weren't around, I began an upgrade. When the final reboot came, I simply switched the PC off and hid in my room, and when my parents came, I stood there silent.
They came to me a little bit later, notifying me that they had used the new Windows I had installed for a few minutes and sighed that they were “going to have to get used to it, eventually.” Turns out, by sheer accident and because of the black magic present in Windows 95, the upgrade had actually gone smoothly, Windows was inside the Stacker container blissfully, with long filenames and everything.
So now Microsoft are doing with their users' PCs and Win 10 what I did with my parents and Win 95. Except it worked fine for me, and it's failing for MS. I feel vindicated.
I don't quite get that gif...... I must be thick hehe
Guy live streaming his play session on a game and in the middle of it Windows decided it was going to update to Windows 10.
Apparently so, once the Anniversary Update is released the free offer ends and that should all be disabled as upgrade theoretically costs.
So what happens if you have downloaded and saved the free ISO for other machines?
Presumably it doesn't activate after installation.
No, no I mean what if you have the ISO and are planning to install it on other machines. Will it ask for a key or pay?
I would guess it'll install, give you the 14 or 30 day trial then you have to pay for a licence.
That sucks then. I used the same ISO for my system and never had any 30 day trilal or need to purchase.
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