[OFFICIAL] Windows 10 (Build 10.0.10240) discussion & upgrade experience

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Not sure what the story is for Insiders. Didn't Gabe say there'd be a surprise on launch for us? Who knows.

Insiders needs to have gone through builds 10158/10159 at least to be able to continue using it while signed in with the e-mail you registered for, if you didn't keep up to date using those builds then you won't be able to install using your insider e-mail.

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So, I was an Insider and I just used media creation tool to make an ISO. I did a clean install with that ISO and now I have a Windows 10 copy permanently activated and I didn't use any key while installing. And I'm not on Insider Preview...

I think I just got Windows 10 for free without any kind of key.

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The thing is, Windows 10 was never downloaded. I just turned on my computer this morning, and the icon was gone; no update to force.

Exactly the same as me.
I ended up following the advice of another user on this forum to force Windows to grab the download and update the system.

For clarity, i had no hidden folder and the flag had disappeared from my system since yesterday.

 

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If anyone is still struggling with the 80240020 error, try changing your date to the 30th. I changed the date, restarted, re-ran the command line that's been floating around and the install prompt came up.

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I downloaded the ISO from MSDN and updated an office laptop (ThinkPad running OEM Windows 7). Update was successful and Windows 10 Pro was automatically activated although when running wmic path softwarelicensingservice get OA3xOriginalProductKey it didn't show a key.

So, you downloaded the ISO manually and upgraded via USB?

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Same here. Also noticing that the drivers aren't working as they're supposed to. Things in Battlefield 4 and Team Fortress 2 aren't fully rendered the way they should.

Mine is working fine with BF4 and TF2, looks fantastic, did you update Windows 10 after the install?

I'm using an Nvidia GTX 780ti Classified video card.

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Well this sucks, even changed my date to the 30th and no go.

You can not do that.  It doesn't work that way.

You can go to Microsoft website to download ISO then choose upgrade option.

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Well this sucks, even changed my date to the 30th and no go.

Give it time, I got my upgrade last night around 1am, my wifes laptop hasnt got the upgrade yet. 

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PsYcHoKiLLa

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Ready to Install :D

http://i62.tinypic.com/nbdumt.png

 

Anyone not got the alert yet, might want to try the process here (I think someone posted it earlier too), I had already downloaded the bits, this kicked it into life :)

http://goodereader.com/blog/tablet-slates/how-to-force-download-windows-10-on-your-pc-and-tablet/attachment/untitled-5-2

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I reserved Windows 10 on my HP Stream notebook and it still says I'll be notified when it's ready, so I went ahead and made a USB flash drive installer and when I started setup it is now asking me for a product key. What? I'm starting to think they don't want to give me Windows 10.

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Why not just use the reset option in recovery?

a. To test it!

b. Because my tablet had a 5GB (out of 32GB) recovery partition that i no longer need.

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I reserved Windows 10 on my HP Stream notebook and it still says I'll be notified when it's ready, so I went ahead and made a USB flash drive installer and when I started setup it is now asking me for a product key. What? I'm starting to think they don't want to give me Windows 10.

Use the upgrade option instead. If you want to use clean install, you will need a key.

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Mandosis

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I noticed that universal apps on my taskbar now all have a background. Is that some bug I picked up from the update or did that get changed through app updates before release?

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I reserved Windows 10 on my HP Stream notebook and it still says I'll be notified when it's ready, so I went ahead and made a USB flash drive installer and when I started setup it is now asking me for a product key. What? I'm starting to think they don't want to give me Windows 10.

Use the upgrade option instead. If you want to use clean install, you will need a key.

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I reserved Windows 10 on my HP Stream notebook and it still says I'll be notified when it's ready, so I went ahead and made a USB flash drive installer and when I started setup it is now asking me for a product key. What? I'm starting to think they don't want to give me Windows 10.

If you boot from the installer it will need a key. It's only free when you do an "upgrade" first (i.e. start the install from within Windows).

I reserved Windows 10 on my HP Stream notebook and it still says I'll be notified when it's ready, so I went ahead and made a USB flash drive installer and when I started setup it is now asking me for a product key. What? I'm starting to think they don't want to give me Windows 10.

If you boot from the installer it will need a key. It's only free when you do an "upgrade" first (i.e. start the install from within Windows).

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Thrackerzod

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Use the upgrade option instead. If you want to use clean install, you will need a key.

 

If you boot from the installer it will need a key. It's only free when you do an "upgrade" first (i.e. start the install from within Windows).

I ran setup from Windows but it doesn't give me an upgrade option. It says "Preparing for setup" and then immediately asks me for a key.

Thanks though, I'll just wait and see if Windows Update will finally start downloading it, no big rush.

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Mine is working fine with BF4 and TF2, looks fantastic, did you update Windows 10 after the install?

I'm using an Nvidia GTX 780ti Classified video card.

There weren't any updates available :/

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There weren't any updates available :/

Have you downloaded the latest package from NVidia? I did that installed it, but it failed, then I ran a check for new updates and it found it. Have you also restarted? I've notice that the Windows 10 updates are super slow to be available.

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The drama continues.

After the Windows Update method failed, I used the iso I made from the esd file that WU had downloaded. It upgraded fine but now it won't activate.

Looking with ProduKey, my Windows 10 Home key is different from the BIOS key in my laptop. The BIOS key is rejected outright and the Windows 10 key I've apparently been given doesn't work ("we couldn't activate with this product key").

Obviously my laptop had an activated copy of 8.1 when I started this.

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Kierax2016

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Mine won't activate!, I just upgraded from Windows 7 Home Premium all legit.  And now in system information Windows 10 shows as inactive, when I attempt to activate it fails the attempt. 

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protocol7

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Mine won't activate!, I just upgraded from Windows 7 Home Premium all legit.  And now in system information Windows 10 shows as inactive, when I attempt to activate it fails the attempt. 

I wonder if the activation servers are borked right now.

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