How to install Windows 10 - A guide

[Kevin Lancaster]

How to install Windows 10

You can either upgrade for free from Windows 7 or 8.1, or perform a clean install from a Windows 10 disk.

 

[morkhans]

If you're doing a clean install do you just use your existing Windows 7 or 8 key?

 

[Zuner]

If you're doing a clean install do you just use your existing Windows 7 or 8 key?

would like to know this too..

EDIT: "Once you upgrade Windows 10 with the free upgrade offer you will be able to clean reinstall Windows 10 on same device any time," Aul said.

 

[Bryn]

If you're doing a clean install do you just use your existing Windows 7 or 8 key?

Apparently so. If you don't mind, I'll wait for you to confirm that it works before attempting it myself though.

 

[Fulcrum29]

If you're doing a clean install do you just use your existing Windows 7 or 8 key?

Already tried it with a newly enclosed Win 7 Pro key, nothing. Installed Win 7 with the attached key and initiated the Win 10 upgrade.

 

[AndrewAlston]

Just a note, if you are doing an upgrade and have an nvidia card, once the upgrade is finished chances are you will drop back to microsoft basic display until you download and install the windows 10 nvidia drivers, since the windows 7/8 drivers will be disabled and don't seem to be compatible. Otherwise had no issues with the upgrade on the machines I tested on.

 

[Zuner]

would like to know this too..

EDIT: "Once you upgrade Windows 10 with the free upgrade offer you will be able to clean reinstall Windows 10 on same device any time," Aul said.

Apparently you can clean install from within windows, it then moves your "old windows" to windows.old once you're in the "new windows".

 

[Napalm2880]

Just a note, if you are doing an upgrade and have an nvidia card, once the upgrade is finished chances are you will drop back to microsoft basic display until you download and install the windows 10 nvidia drivers, since the windows 7/8 drivers will be disabled and don't seem to be compatible. Otherwise had no issues with the upgrade on the machines I tested on.

Thanks for the heads-up.

 

[Lord Farquart]

Will it be possible to upgrade from 8.1 Enterprise to 10 Home?

 

[Pitbull]

And in 6 months everyone is back to Windows 7 or 8.1

I'll pass thank you very much.

 

[LinuxMan]

This..

And in 6 months everyone is back to Windows 7 or 8.1

I'll pass thank you very much.

 

[IRVING]

Busy downloading the ISO now, I hope I will be able to do the free upgrade from it on all my machines.

 

[deweyzeph]

I'm busy downloading the Windows 10 Pro ISO from my MSDN subscription now. Keen to see how painless it is to upgrade, or if I need to do a clean install.

 

[Bryn]

Is anyone else getting incredibly slow speeds with your Windows 10 update via Windows Update?

And in 6 months everyone is back to Windows 7 or 8.1

I'll pass thank you very much.

Why would that happen? I have yet to see a review that isn't full of praise.

 

[Compton_effect]

And in 6 months everyone is back to Windows 7 or 8.1

I'll pass thank you very much.

Yep. I learned my lesson with '8. I'll wait a week or so.

 

[Kloofvreter]

And in 6 months everyone is back to Windows 7 or 8.1

I'll pass thank you very much.

Nope, 10 is awesome. 8.1 was OK-ish.

 

[Pitbull]

Nope, 10 is awesome. 8.1 was OK-ish.

The same was said about all the other windows

 

[Kloofvreter]

The same was said about all the other windows

Nope, only Vista.

 

[DuckKnuckle]

My $Windows.~BT is sitting at 5.90GB but Windows update isn't reflecting any available updates.

Using wuauclt.exe. /updatenow doesn't seem to help either. Guess I'm playing the waiting game.

 

[gregmcc]

Yep. I learned my lesson with '8. I'll wait a week or so.

Been running win 10 preview for almost a year. The final release is def something to install. No reason to ever go back to pre W10