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81 Million PCs Already on Windows 10 - Report
Softpedia ^ | 09/09/2015

Posted on 09/09/2015 12:16:17 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: 2harddrive
Thanks for your reply. This is the standard GWX info when I click on the icon.


21 posted on 09/10/2015 2:21:55 PM PDT by newfreep ("Evil succeeds when good men do nothting" - Edmund Burke)
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Just click on the arrow icon (the >) in the right-side center of that screen, to see what the explanation is for what is holding you back. There are about 5 screens to click through and read, doing that. Come back and tell us what it says. Then, click on the Notify me when ready box, lower left, of course.


22 posted on 09/11/2015 5:08:17 AM PDT by 2harddrive
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Thanks again for your help.

Clicking thru the 5 screens just displays the talking points of W10.

I've previously reserved my copy of W10...multiple times.

Using the Menu bars in upper left, I can display these screens:


23 posted on 09/11/2015 5:50:14 AM PDT by newfreep ("Evil succeeds when good men do nothting" - Edmund Burke)
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To: SeekAndFind

Automatic installs probably accounts for 90% of that. My “windows 10 experience” thus far tells me that the only thing good about Windows 10 is that it is not Windows 8 (don’t know about 8.1, as I rolled back to Windows 7 after my first exposure to 8.0).

Unfortunately, my home desktop with “7” began to die (intermittent failure to boot....requiring a total (as in unplug it) hard reset), and I needed to replace it. Home Depot had some nice Dells on sale for Labor Day, which came with “10” pre-installed. I got all the programs and data moved over, and THAT machine turned out to be flaky. So I swapped it for another of the same model, and am now up and running.

Believe me.....Windows 10 and its new “apps” suck wind....badly!


24 posted on 09/11/2015 6:00:56 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (Newly fledged NRA Life Member (after many years as an "annual renewal" sort))
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I bought an Acer recently with preinstalled 7 and I turned off my updater.


25 posted on 09/11/2015 6:04:04 AM PDT by Chickensoup (We lose our freedoms one surrender at a time)
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To: 2harddrive

GREAT!! It looks like they found no problems with your machine, so just manually run Windows Update, and it should install. If it is a laptop, make sure it is hooked up to the battery charger, so it does not run down half way through the process.


26 posted on 09/11/2015 11:10:11 AM PDT by 2harddrive
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To: newfreep

Be sure to select all updates, including any optional ones, when you run Windows Update.


27 posted on 09/11/2015 11:11:45 AM PDT by 2harddrive
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I always check for optional updates.

Sigh, I guess I have no choice but wait to get contacted.

One last question...

I did find this option to force the W10 download - does it look OK to you? (Links to both the web text version and also the YouTube video version)

TEXT: http://venturebeat.com/2015/07/28/how-to-force-windows-to-start-downloading-the-windows-10-update-files/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=118&v=g0ALNl0CRBk

Thanks again for your help - truly appreciated.


28 posted on 09/11/2015 12:37:11 PM PDT by newfreep ("Evil succeeds when good men do nothting" - Edmund Burke)
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I had the same message and forced the update.
The method I found had an edit for the registry in the beginning instead of deleting a folder. The last part looks the same.

It worked well for me.
I think they are waiting because you may need a driver that the original vendor hasn’t bothered to write an update for Windows 10.


29 posted on 09/11/2015 12:55:26 PM PDT by toast
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That looks fine to me! However, at the link I am posting here is what I did, to force the Windows 10 update to run on my desktop. (It had downloaded it, but it would not run.) I just did, what did NOT work for the guy who posts this blog: https://ascariztips.wordpress.com/ascariz-tips/how-to-fix-solve-the-repeatedly-80240020-windows-10-installation-error/


30 posted on 09/13/2015 4:39:45 AM PDT by 2harddrive
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In any case: Good luck, my friend!


31 posted on 09/13/2015 4:40:30 AM PDT by 2harddrive
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