Windows 10 Technical Preview - Insider Program

Johnatan56 said:
Are you sure you don't want to just get a new laptop?
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This is my few months old laptop to be honest I want very, very little. Let devil judge me now...
No sir, thank you for your offer, I am very happy with this one. :)
 
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I am seeing build 10130 is now available for download on Windows Update. Has anyone downloaded and installed it? Wow the builds are coming out a lot quicker now, I am sure it has not been a month since build 10122 dropped.
 
10122 is ten days old.

Yeah, I think we'll start seeing significant fit & finish improvements now as the whole thing comes together for a late July RTM.
 
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sajunky said:
This is my few months old laptop to be honest I want very, very little. Let devil judge me now...
No sir, thank you for your offer, I am very happy with this one. :)
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You most likely will have a problem with driver support though due to the age of the device.
 
Windows 10 Pro price and release date potentially leaked by Newegg

By now, our readers know that Windows 10 is slated to be released to manufacturing this July. Popular shopping site Newegg has apparently and likely inadvertently revealed the general availability date for Windows 10, by listing a pre-order of Windows 10 Pro OEM. According to Newegg (first spotted by WinSupersite), Windows 10 Pro OEM will run for $149.99 and will be available on the 31st of August.

Microsoft has yet to reveal the price tiers for the different Windows 10 editions (you can read more about that here) and there's a chance that this information may just be a place holder for Windows 10 on Newegg. For example, Windows 7 is also listed for $149.99. For now, we suggest taking this with a huge grain of salt. Here's a cached version of the Newegg listing on Google in case it gets rem...
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Hardly something I want to pay ±R1500-R1700 for.
 
You'd only need to pay for Win 10 if you were building a new machine that had no previous Windows license. Most people can just upgrade for free, and most new machines (unless you're building them yourself) would come with an installed version already. Plus no confirmation that those are indeed the actual prices. So guess we'll all just have to wait and see.

So far i'm enjoying testing out the system. 10130 seems to show that a lot of the clunkiness of earlier builds is now being ironed out (thank goodness). So will be interesting to see where this all goes to.
 
few questions:

Drivers: will windows update automatically download and install drivers via windows update ? or should i use something like drivepack or driver genius ?

Take control of folders - how the hell do i do this ? nedd to delete a few folders but says i need SYSTEM permission.
no i dont see the owner tab under advanced :(

i installed avast will this be a problem or should i be using the default defender ?

thanks
 
Looks like Microsoft has started offering users on other Windows platforms the upgrade offer. Mine just popped up like now. I am currently running Windows 7 on my main laptop.

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ChadB said:
You'd only need to pay for Win 10 if you were building a new machine that had no previous Windows license. Most people can just upgrade for free, and most new machines (unless you're building them yourself) would come with an installed version already. Plus no confirmation that those are indeed the actual prices. So guess we'll all just have to wait and see.

So far i'm enjoying testing out the system. 10130 seems to show that a lot of the clunkiness of earlier builds is now being ironed out (thank goodness). So will be interesting to see where this all goes to.
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You are excluding the fact that after your free year you would need to pay up.
 
Buggy in AMD GPU. Build 130.
Other than the drivers breaking every other, better than the previous builds. Just wish I could disable the auto downloading in windows update.
 
This "Upgrade feature" is part of the update KB3035583
So you can uninstall that update, and hide it from the updates.
 
Pho3nix said:
Buggy in AMD GPU. Build 130.
Other than the drivers breaking every other, better than the previous builds. Just wish I could disable the auto downloading in windows update.
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when the update is in the list of windows updates, right click the update you don't like, and select "hide" then it would never be re-detected.
You can re-enable that update by going to Windows Updates under control panel and the click on "Restore hidden updates" on the side.
Or didn't I understand your statement correctly?
 
gfmalan said:
when the update is in the list of windows updates, right click the update you don't like, and select "hide" then it would never be re-detected.
You can re-enable that update by going to Windows Updates under control panel and the click on "Restore hidden updates" on the side.
Or didn't I understand your statement correctly?
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Sounds like exactly what I needed. Will try when I get home.
 
ryu said:
few questions:

Drivers: will windows update automatically download and install drivers via windows update ? or should i use something like drivepack or driver genius ?

Take control of folders - how the hell do i do this ? nedd to delete a few folders but says i need SYSTEM permission.
no i dont see the owner tab under advanced :(

i installed avast will this be a problem or should i be using the default defender ?

thanks
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Hey guys really need help with drivers, i had snappy driver installed but it fails on installation... same problem with driver genius.

Any programs you guys know of that lets you instal drivers in windows 10 ?
 
Necuno said:
You are excluding the fact that after your free year you would need to pay up.
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Thats not how the upgrade offer is meant to work. Its a free upgrade, that is available for the first year. Once you have upgraded a machine to windows 10 though it is supported and will be kept up to date for the life of that device, you don't have to suddenly pay for anything after that first year.

The free year is more about a window of free upgrades from previous versions. So if you were to say choose not to upgrade in that first year, but decide you want to upgrade after that, then yes you'd need to pay for the upgrade.

Those prices are OEM licenses though, not upgrade prices, so they're licenses destined for new machine hardware, so as I said before, if you build a new machine that has no previous OS, that's when you'd need to buy an OEM license.
 
Necuno said:
You are excluding the fact that after your free year you would need to pay up.
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Source: http://arstechnica.com/information-...ate-set-for-july-29-for-pcs-and-tablets-only/
Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 10 will be released globally—for PCs and tablets only—on July 29, as a free upgrade for anyone running Windows 7 or Windows 8.1.

You have one year from July 29 to get your free upgrade to Windows 10, after which Microsoft will "continue to keep it current for the supported lifetime of the device—at no cost."
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Could someone help me get some greater clarification on this issue?

At the moment I have Windows 7 Professional that I bought off-the shelf (ie. with CD and Licence key etc). If I were to upgrade to Windows 10 will they then give me a licence key that I can then use to reinstall Win 10 if I ever need to reformat or upgrade my PC, say with a new mobo, as my current situation allows? Or is it I upgrade and that's it, can't do anything else with regards to upgrades etc, the licence is only for that specific hardware combination?
 
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