My experience installing Windows 10
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Several users have posted messages here, complaining about Win 10. I was apprehensive at first, and wanted to wait, but then my curiosity got the better of me and I decided to try it. I roughly followed these steps: 1. First I created an image of my systems drive, In case I decided to revert to 8.1. 2. I upgraded my existing installation to 10. This step is essential, because it gives you an activated Win 10 setup. When you later do a clean install from a "OEM" disc, Microsoft will recognize your computer as eligible for 10 and you will have no trouble getting the setup activated. I much prefer a "clean" installation on a blank drive, rather than an "upgraded" setup. 3. Then I downloaded the ISO file to create a Win 10 install disc from Microsoft and burned a DVD to do the installation. 4. Backed up all data on my systems drive. There wasn't much, as I use a second internal drive to store my data. 5. Using an old Active@ disc I bought years ago from LSoft, I deleted all partitions on my systems drive. 6. Created a new recovery partition on the drive. If you don't create this partition, the Windows installer will create it. However, Windows is inclined to make this partition so small that after time, it will not have enough space to create a shadow copy of itself and you will not be able to create a shadow image of your entire systems drive. I make the recovery partition 2 GB, which is plenty. 7. Mark the recovery partition as Active (important). There is no need to assign a drive letter to this partition. 8. Create a second partition, using the entire remainder of the systems drive. Make this partition a Primary partition. Do NOT mark it as active. Assign drive letter C. 9. Using the Microsoft disc, install Windows 10 on the second, large partition. Skip the two steps where it asks you for an activation code. 10. As soon as Windows runs, assuming you have Internet access, the installation should become activated, provided you did not skip step 2. 11. Install all your Apps and updates. I had absolutely zero issues with 10, and I am very pleased with it.
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need, when their violent passions are spent? - The Lost Horizon
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Several users have posted messages here, complaining about Win 10. I was apprehensive at first, and wanted to wait, but then my curiosity got the better of me and I decided to try it. I roughly followed these steps: 1. First I created an image of my systems drive, In case I decided to revert to 8.1. 2. I upgraded my existing installation to 10. This step is essential, because it gives you an activated Win 10 setup. When you later do a clean install from a "OEM" disc, Microsoft will recognize your computer as eligible for 10 and you will have no trouble getting the setup activated. I much prefer a "clean" installation on a blank drive, rather than an "upgraded" setup. 3. Then I downloaded the ISO file to create a Win 10 install disc from Microsoft and burned a DVD to do the installation. 4. Backed up all data on my systems drive. There wasn't much, as I use a second internal drive to store my data. 5. Using an old Active@ disc I bought years ago from LSoft, I deleted all partitions on my systems drive. 6. Created a new recovery partition on the drive. If you don't create this partition, the Windows installer will create it. However, Windows is inclined to make this partition so small that after time, it will not have enough space to create a shadow copy of itself and you will not be able to create a shadow image of your entire systems drive. I make the recovery partition 2 GB, which is plenty. 7. Mark the recovery partition as Active (important). There is no need to assign a drive letter to this partition. 8. Create a second partition, using the entire remainder of the systems drive. Make this partition a Primary partition. Do NOT mark it as active. Assign drive letter C. 9. Using the Microsoft disc, install Windows 10 on the second, large partition. Skip the two steps where it asks you for an activation code. 10. As soon as Windows runs, assuming you have Internet access, the installation should become activated, provided you did not skip step 2. 11. Install all your Apps and updates. I had absolutely zero issues with 10, and I am very pleased with it.
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need, when their violent passions are spent? - The Lost Horizon
Wow, this sounds like a lot of work. I can't recall the last time I used a DVD to install Windows, let alone booted into normal setup. I always use a USB pen drive, boot into WinPE, use a diskpart script to create the partition layout and just apply a personalized image (that hopefully works...) that is already configured the way I want, and with all update packages integrated (I started this with Windows 7 because I got sick of downloading 150 updates when you install it from the vanilla image). It requires a little work to initally set this up, but if you have to do it pretty often (friends, etc.) it's really a time saver. I think Windows 10 is okay, you can still configure it to minimize all the telemetry/privacy issues (if you care) and remove all the mobile/cloud stuff you don't want/need. Plus, it runs pretty smooth in general.
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Wow, this sounds like a lot of work. I can't recall the last time I used a DVD to install Windows, let alone booted into normal setup. I always use a USB pen drive, boot into WinPE, use a diskpart script to create the partition layout and just apply a personalized image (that hopefully works...) that is already configured the way I want, and with all update packages integrated (I started this with Windows 7 because I got sick of downloading 150 updates when you install it from the vanilla image). It requires a little work to initally set this up, but if you have to do it pretty often (friends, etc.) it's really a time saver. I think Windows 10 is okay, you can still configure it to minimize all the telemetry/privacy issues (if you care) and remove all the mobile/cloud stuff you don't want/need. Plus, it runs pretty smooth in general.
It's not as bad as it sounds. Keep in mind that Win 10 is new, and there are not many updates for the OS yet. What also helped me, is that I have a SSD systems drive, that just about doubles your write speed. The entire process took me about 8 hours, and a big part of that was setting up Visual Studio with all its updates. I believe it was worth my while. :) I like to have full control over aspects like partition sizes, etc.
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need, when their violent passions are spent? - The Lost Horizon
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Several users have posted messages here, complaining about Win 10. I was apprehensive at first, and wanted to wait, but then my curiosity got the better of me and I decided to try it. I roughly followed these steps: 1. First I created an image of my systems drive, In case I decided to revert to 8.1. 2. I upgraded my existing installation to 10. This step is essential, because it gives you an activated Win 10 setup. When you later do a clean install from a "OEM" disc, Microsoft will recognize your computer as eligible for 10 and you will have no trouble getting the setup activated. I much prefer a "clean" installation on a blank drive, rather than an "upgraded" setup. 3. Then I downloaded the ISO file to create a Win 10 install disc from Microsoft and burned a DVD to do the installation. 4. Backed up all data on my systems drive. There wasn't much, as I use a second internal drive to store my data. 5. Using an old Active@ disc I bought years ago from LSoft, I deleted all partitions on my systems drive. 6. Created a new recovery partition on the drive. If you don't create this partition, the Windows installer will create it. However, Windows is inclined to make this partition so small that after time, it will not have enough space to create a shadow copy of itself and you will not be able to create a shadow image of your entire systems drive. I make the recovery partition 2 GB, which is plenty. 7. Mark the recovery partition as Active (important). There is no need to assign a drive letter to this partition. 8. Create a second partition, using the entire remainder of the systems drive. Make this partition a Primary partition. Do NOT mark it as active. Assign drive letter C. 9. Using the Microsoft disc, install Windows 10 on the second, large partition. Skip the two steps where it asks you for an activation code. 10. As soon as Windows runs, assuming you have Internet access, the installation should become activated, provided you did not skip step 2. 11. Install all your Apps and updates. I had absolutely zero issues with 10, and I am very pleased with it.
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need, when their violent passions are spent? - The Lost Horizon
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I installed 'Destroy Windows 10 Spying[^]' ...it's mostly a bunch of firewall rules and entries in the HOSTS file to redirect telemetry to nowhere...seems to be working, only had it going a couple of days.
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Several users have posted messages here, complaining about Win 10. I was apprehensive at first, and wanted to wait, but then my curiosity got the better of me and I decided to try it. I roughly followed these steps: 1. First I created an image of my systems drive, In case I decided to revert to 8.1. 2. I upgraded my existing installation to 10. This step is essential, because it gives you an activated Win 10 setup. When you later do a clean install from a "OEM" disc, Microsoft will recognize your computer as eligible for 10 and you will have no trouble getting the setup activated. I much prefer a "clean" installation on a blank drive, rather than an "upgraded" setup. 3. Then I downloaded the ISO file to create a Win 10 install disc from Microsoft and burned a DVD to do the installation. 4. Backed up all data on my systems drive. There wasn't much, as I use a second internal drive to store my data. 5. Using an old Active@ disc I bought years ago from LSoft, I deleted all partitions on my systems drive. 6. Created a new recovery partition on the drive. If you don't create this partition, the Windows installer will create it. However, Windows is inclined to make this partition so small that after time, it will not have enough space to create a shadow copy of itself and you will not be able to create a shadow image of your entire systems drive. I make the recovery partition 2 GB, which is plenty. 7. Mark the recovery partition as Active (important). There is no need to assign a drive letter to this partition. 8. Create a second partition, using the entire remainder of the systems drive. Make this partition a Primary partition. Do NOT mark it as active. Assign drive letter C. 9. Using the Microsoft disc, install Windows 10 on the second, large partition. Skip the two steps where it asks you for an activation code. 10. As soon as Windows runs, assuming you have Internet access, the installation should become activated, provided you did not skip step 2. 11. Install all your Apps and updates. I had absolutely zero issues with 10, and I am very pleased with it.
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need, when their violent passions are spent? - The Lost Horizon
Excellent you should start getting advertisements shortly and they'll track you to make sure you're making the best use of your new OS and well they might give it to a few other people but they're responsible right, they wouldn't give it to anybody you wouldn't right? There ain't no such thing as a free lunch!
New version: WinHeist Version
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Looks interesting, thanks!
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need, when their violent passions are spent? - The Lost Horizon
You're welcome! :) I figure they aren't going to let up on the spying thing, which was their whole rationale for 'free' Windows 10. In addition, they are deploying the same things to Windows 7 & 8.x. It's time to deploy countermeasures! I would *love* to know which file(s) do the keylogger thing which is what freaks me out the most...them capturing my online banking passwords.
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Excellent you should start getting advertisements shortly and they'll track you to make sure you're making the best use of your new OS and well they might give it to a few other people but they're responsible right, they wouldn't give it to anybody you wouldn't right? There ain't no such thing as a free lunch!
New version: WinHeist Version
You didn't fall from the stupid tree you got dragged through the whole dumbass forest. -
Several users have posted messages here, complaining about Win 10. I was apprehensive at first, and wanted to wait, but then my curiosity got the better of me and I decided to try it. I roughly followed these steps: 1. First I created an image of my systems drive, In case I decided to revert to 8.1. 2. I upgraded my existing installation to 10. This step is essential, because it gives you an activated Win 10 setup. When you later do a clean install from a "OEM" disc, Microsoft will recognize your computer as eligible for 10 and you will have no trouble getting the setup activated. I much prefer a "clean" installation on a blank drive, rather than an "upgraded" setup. 3. Then I downloaded the ISO file to create a Win 10 install disc from Microsoft and burned a DVD to do the installation. 4. Backed up all data on my systems drive. There wasn't much, as I use a second internal drive to store my data. 5. Using an old Active@ disc I bought years ago from LSoft, I deleted all partitions on my systems drive. 6. Created a new recovery partition on the drive. If you don't create this partition, the Windows installer will create it. However, Windows is inclined to make this partition so small that after time, it will not have enough space to create a shadow copy of itself and you will not be able to create a shadow image of your entire systems drive. I make the recovery partition 2 GB, which is plenty. 7. Mark the recovery partition as Active (important). There is no need to assign a drive letter to this partition. 8. Create a second partition, using the entire remainder of the systems drive. Make this partition a Primary partition. Do NOT mark it as active. Assign drive letter C. 9. Using the Microsoft disc, install Windows 10 on the second, large partition. Skip the two steps where it asks you for an activation code. 10. As soon as Windows runs, assuming you have Internet access, the installation should become activated, provided you did not skip step 2. 11. Install all your Apps and updates. I had absolutely zero issues with 10, and I am very pleased with it.
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need, when their violent passions are spent? - The Lost Horizon
i let the auto-installer do what it was written to do. worked perfectly. zero problems.
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It's not as bad as it sounds. Keep in mind that Win 10 is new, and there are not many updates for the OS yet. What also helped me, is that I have a SSD systems drive, that just about doubles your write speed. The entire process took me about 8 hours, and a big part of that was setting up Visual Studio with all its updates. I believe it was worth my while. :) I like to have full control over aspects like partition sizes, etc.
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need, when their violent passions are spent? - The Lost Horizon
:thumbsup:
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Several users have posted messages here, complaining about Win 10. I was apprehensive at first, and wanted to wait, but then my curiosity got the better of me and I decided to try it. I roughly followed these steps: 1. First I created an image of my systems drive, In case I decided to revert to 8.1. 2. I upgraded my existing installation to 10. This step is essential, because it gives you an activated Win 10 setup. When you later do a clean install from a "OEM" disc, Microsoft will recognize your computer as eligible for 10 and you will have no trouble getting the setup activated. I much prefer a "clean" installation on a blank drive, rather than an "upgraded" setup. 3. Then I downloaded the ISO file to create a Win 10 install disc from Microsoft and burned a DVD to do the installation. 4. Backed up all data on my systems drive. There wasn't much, as I use a second internal drive to store my data. 5. Using an old Active@ disc I bought years ago from LSoft, I deleted all partitions on my systems drive. 6. Created a new recovery partition on the drive. If you don't create this partition, the Windows installer will create it. However, Windows is inclined to make this partition so small that after time, it will not have enough space to create a shadow copy of itself and you will not be able to create a shadow image of your entire systems drive. I make the recovery partition 2 GB, which is plenty. 7. Mark the recovery partition as Active (important). There is no need to assign a drive letter to this partition. 8. Create a second partition, using the entire remainder of the systems drive. Make this partition a Primary partition. Do NOT mark it as active. Assign drive letter C. 9. Using the Microsoft disc, install Windows 10 on the second, large partition. Skip the two steps where it asks you for an activation code. 10. As soon as Windows runs, assuming you have Internet access, the installation should become activated, provided you did not skip step 2. 11. Install all your Apps and updates. I had absolutely zero issues with 10, and I am very pleased with it.
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need, when their violent passions are spent? - The Lost Horizon
That's nice. I just tried the upgrade to Windows 10 and cannot, for the life of me, get the keyboard and mouse to work. I've tried everything for about 3 hours now. Next step, reverting the machine back to Win7...
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Time for counter-measures as Dave suggests above? :^)
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need, when their violent passions are spent? - The Lost Horizon
I'm still at 7 and intend to stay there for some time.
New version: WinHeist Version
You didn't fall from the stupid tree you got dragged through the whole dumbass forest. -
I installed 'Destroy Windows 10 Spying[^]' ...it's mostly a bunch of firewall rules and entries in the HOSTS file to redirect telemetry to nowhere...seems to be working, only had it going a couple of days.
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Just had an idea ;P They want some telemetry, why not give them some ? What a bout a flood generator sending random data ;P
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Several users have posted messages here, complaining about Win 10. I was apprehensive at first, and wanted to wait, but then my curiosity got the better of me and I decided to try it. I roughly followed these steps: 1. First I created an image of my systems drive, In case I decided to revert to 8.1. 2. I upgraded my existing installation to 10. This step is essential, because it gives you an activated Win 10 setup. When you later do a clean install from a "OEM" disc, Microsoft will recognize your computer as eligible for 10 and you will have no trouble getting the setup activated. I much prefer a "clean" installation on a blank drive, rather than an "upgraded" setup. 3. Then I downloaded the ISO file to create a Win 10 install disc from Microsoft and burned a DVD to do the installation. 4. Backed up all data on my systems drive. There wasn't much, as I use a second internal drive to store my data. 5. Using an old Active@ disc I bought years ago from LSoft, I deleted all partitions on my systems drive. 6. Created a new recovery partition on the drive. If you don't create this partition, the Windows installer will create it. However, Windows is inclined to make this partition so small that after time, it will not have enough space to create a shadow copy of itself and you will not be able to create a shadow image of your entire systems drive. I make the recovery partition 2 GB, which is plenty. 7. Mark the recovery partition as Active (important). There is no need to assign a drive letter to this partition. 8. Create a second partition, using the entire remainder of the systems drive. Make this partition a Primary partition. Do NOT mark it as active. Assign drive letter C. 9. Using the Microsoft disc, install Windows 10 on the second, large partition. Skip the two steps where it asks you for an activation code. 10. As soon as Windows runs, assuming you have Internet access, the installation should become activated, provided you did not skip step 2. 11. Install all your Apps and updates. I had absolutely zero issues with 10, and I am very pleased with it.
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need, when their violent passions are spent? - The Lost Horizon
I installed it when it launched, and uninstalled the next day. And the popup keeps bugging me to install-install-install Win10. Had a worst experience while using it. :doh:
Cheers KR
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Several users have posted messages here, complaining about Win 10. I was apprehensive at first, and wanted to wait, but then my curiosity got the better of me and I decided to try it. I roughly followed these steps: 1. First I created an image of my systems drive, In case I decided to revert to 8.1. 2. I upgraded my existing installation to 10. This step is essential, because it gives you an activated Win 10 setup. When you later do a clean install from a "OEM" disc, Microsoft will recognize your computer as eligible for 10 and you will have no trouble getting the setup activated. I much prefer a "clean" installation on a blank drive, rather than an "upgraded" setup. 3. Then I downloaded the ISO file to create a Win 10 install disc from Microsoft and burned a DVD to do the installation. 4. Backed up all data on my systems drive. There wasn't much, as I use a second internal drive to store my data. 5. Using an old Active@ disc I bought years ago from LSoft, I deleted all partitions on my systems drive. 6. Created a new recovery partition on the drive. If you don't create this partition, the Windows installer will create it. However, Windows is inclined to make this partition so small that after time, it will not have enough space to create a shadow copy of itself and you will not be able to create a shadow image of your entire systems drive. I make the recovery partition 2 GB, which is plenty. 7. Mark the recovery partition as Active (important). There is no need to assign a drive letter to this partition. 8. Create a second partition, using the entire remainder of the systems drive. Make this partition a Primary partition. Do NOT mark it as active. Assign drive letter C. 9. Using the Microsoft disc, install Windows 10 on the second, large partition. Skip the two steps where it asks you for an activation code. 10. As soon as Windows runs, assuming you have Internet access, the installation should become activated, provided you did not skip step 2. 11. Install all your Apps and updates. I had absolutely zero issues with 10, and I am very pleased with it.
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need, when their violent passions are spent? - The Lost Horizon
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Several users have posted messages here, complaining about Win 10. I was apprehensive at first, and wanted to wait, but then my curiosity got the better of me and I decided to try it. I roughly followed these steps: 1. First I created an image of my systems drive, In case I decided to revert to 8.1. 2. I upgraded my existing installation to 10. This step is essential, because it gives you an activated Win 10 setup. When you later do a clean install from a "OEM" disc, Microsoft will recognize your computer as eligible for 10 and you will have no trouble getting the setup activated. I much prefer a "clean" installation on a blank drive, rather than an "upgraded" setup. 3. Then I downloaded the ISO file to create a Win 10 install disc from Microsoft and burned a DVD to do the installation. 4. Backed up all data on my systems drive. There wasn't much, as I use a second internal drive to store my data. 5. Using an old Active@ disc I bought years ago from LSoft, I deleted all partitions on my systems drive. 6. Created a new recovery partition on the drive. If you don't create this partition, the Windows installer will create it. However, Windows is inclined to make this partition so small that after time, it will not have enough space to create a shadow copy of itself and you will not be able to create a shadow image of your entire systems drive. I make the recovery partition 2 GB, which is plenty. 7. Mark the recovery partition as Active (important). There is no need to assign a drive letter to this partition. 8. Create a second partition, using the entire remainder of the systems drive. Make this partition a Primary partition. Do NOT mark it as active. Assign drive letter C. 9. Using the Microsoft disc, install Windows 10 on the second, large partition. Skip the two steps where it asks you for an activation code. 10. As soon as Windows runs, assuming you have Internet access, the installation should become activated, provided you did not skip step 2. 11. Install all your Apps and updates. I had absolutely zero issues with 10, and I am very pleased with it.
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need, when their violent passions are spent? - The Lost Horizon
How do you create a recovery partition? Is it just a primary partition marked "active"? Send Codez Plz :)
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. --Winston Churchill
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How do you create a recovery partition? Is it just a primary partition marked "active"? Send Codez Plz :)
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. --Winston Churchill
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Send Codez Plz
No codez. I use an application on the LSoft Active@ disc that is designed to manipulate partitions. If you don't have such a disc, you should be able to create partitions with an old XP or Vista disc. After you delete the old partitions, you first create a primary partition of around 2 GB that you mark Active. Then the main partition. There is nothing special about the recovery partition, except that it is Active and has no drive letter.
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need, when their violent passions are spent? - The Lost Horizon
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That's nice. I just tried the upgrade to Windows 10 and cannot, for the life of me, get the keyboard and mouse to work. I've tried everything for about 3 hours now. Next step, reverting the machine back to Win7...
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Send Codez Plz
No codez. I use an application on the LSoft Active@ disc that is designed to manipulate partitions. If you don't have such a disc, you should be able to create partitions with an old XP or Vista disc. After you delete the old partitions, you first create a primary partition of around 2 GB that you mark Active. Then the main partition. There is nothing special about the recovery partition, except that it is Active and has no drive letter.
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need, when their violent passions are spent? - The Lost Horizon
OK, thanks.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. --Winston Churchill
