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"This free Windows 10 upgrade offer still works. Here's why -- and how to get it"
"This free Windows 10 upgrade offer still works. Here's why -- and how
to get it" https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-f...how-to-get-it/ "More than three years after Microsoft’s free upgrade offer officially ended, people are still reporting successful Windows 10 upgrades from older machines. Here’s the latest extremely unofficial report." Surely nothing could go wrong upgrading the ten PCs at my office running Windows 7 x64 Pro. Lynn |
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"This free Windows 10 upgrade offer still works. Here's why --and how to get it"
On 30/12/2019 22:22, Lynn McGuire wrote:
Surely nothing could go wrong upgrading the ten PCs at my office running Windows 7 x64 Pro. Why did you post this crap on Windows 10 newsgroup? Why would they need to know this from you when they are already using this wonderful operating system? If you are having problems upgrading 10 PCs in your virtual office then you need to hire a technician who can come to you and do it for you. They charge a small fee to fix people's problems. -- With over 1.2 billion devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows. |
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"This free Windows 10 upgrade offer still works. Here's why --and how to get it"
Lynn McGuire wrote:
"This free Windows 10 upgrade offer still works. Here's why -- and how to get it" https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-f...how-to-get-it/ "More than three years after Microsoft’s free upgrade offer officially ended, people are still reporting successful Windows 10 upgrades from older machines. Here’s the latest extremely unofficial report." Surely nothing could go wrong upgrading the ten PCs at my office running Windows 7 x64 Pro. Lynn Isn't it a little late in the cycle to be throwing a barb like this ? It's only ten machines, but you're going to hate that you didn't work on this in advance. You can (for W10-over-W7 install): 1) Back up the entire drive C: is sitting on. Even though install has "Revert", it doesn't work good enough for government work. If you hit a snag, restore from backup, as it's faster. 2) Load the DVD in the tray. Navigate to the top level and run Setup.exe. 3) When the decompression/copy phase is complete, the optical media can be pulled out of the tray on the first reboot. You can then move to the next PC and run Setup.exe and kick that one off. 4) After the fourth or so reboot, the machine will start asking you questions. These are questions intended for Home users who qualify for Free Upgrades. You should have account names and passwords ready on hand, to answer the questions. The local account option is on the lower left and dimmed out a bit. If it keeps asking for an MSA as a user name), pull the network cable so it can't complete a Cloud transaction, and then it will definitely allow a local account to be defined. If you're not doing a W10-over-W7 install, there is more to know. Clean installs require a bit more preparation in advance. The install will stop early, if the CPU is not instruction-set-compatible. There is one Intel Pentium processor, whose part number begins with G, that is actually compatible, but because of an error in the CPUID instruction encoding, it returns a result which says it won't work with Windows 10. This means that even a two year old machine can fail to install Windows 10. Whether they fixed that one manually in 1909, I don't know. You can have one copy of the ISO on your "server", and use OSFMount to mount the ISO as a virtual DVD drive, with this. This allows you to kick off "Setup.exe" on all ten machines, in the same minute. W8 and W10 have built-in virtual DVD drives, and don't need a crutch like this. https://www.osforensics.com/tools/mo...sk-images.html *Make sure* you've worked all the details on how accounts will be set up in advance. Sure, you can use lusrmgr to set up accounts or whatever later, but again, this is stuff you should test on at least one machine install, to make sure it's going to work out for you. The machine will prompt for an MSA, such as a cloud The home directory will end up "mynam" and the user will *hate* this. If you want to make the machine cloud ready, my guess is adding an MSA later is the best route to take. If you use a local account (my name is Bullwinkle by the way), then the home directory will be full length and under my control. My homedir will be "bullwinkle". If I entered John Smith, then the homedir ends up with a space in the name, which is fine too. I just prefer the thing as one name, and later, if the Mail App wants to parse that and make "Bull Winkle" out of it, I really don't care. Paul |
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"This free Windows 10 upgrade offer still works. Here's why --and how to get it"
Paul wrote:
If I entered John Smith, then the homedir ends up with a space in the name, which is fine too. Which having spaces in usernames makes user-level security on network shares a real PITA. You would think MS would follow other OS's and a username generated from a fullname "John Smith" would be a more reasonable: john johns john_smith johnMACHINENAME .... anything but "John Smith" -- Take care, Jonathan ------------------- LITTLE WORKS STUDIO http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com |
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"This free Windows 10 upgrade offer still works. Here's why --and how to get it"
Jonathan N. Little wrote:
Paul wrote: If I entered John Smith, then the homedir ends up with a space in the name, which is fine too. Which having spaces in usernames makes user-level security on network shares a real PITA. You would think MS would follow other OS's and a username generated from a fullname "John Smith" would be a more reasonable: john johns john_smith johnMACHINENAME ... anything but "John Smith" It's pretty obvious Microsoft wants us to learn the gentle art of "quoting stuff" to insulate. An OS isn't an OS unless you've got "\"\" multilevel quotes "\"\" around everything :-) When they weren't sure "John Smith" would be a nuisance, they threw in a "My Documents" to make sure. Oh, and a "Program Files". Paul |
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"This free Windows 10 upgrade offer still works. Here's why --and how to get it"
Paul wrote:
Jonathan N. Little wrote: Paul wrote: If I entered John Smith, then the homedir ends up with a space in the name, which is fine too. Which having spaces in usernames makes user-level security on network shares a real PITA. You would think MS would follow other OS's and a username generated from a fullname "John Smith" would be a more reasonable: john johns john_smith johnMACHINENAME ... anything but "John Smith" It's pretty obvious Microsoft wants us to learn the gentle art of "quoting stuff" to insulate. An OS isn't an OS unless you've got "\"\" multilevel quotes "\"\" around everything :-) When they weren't sure "John Smith" would be a nuisance, they threw in a "My Documents" to make sure. Oh, and a "Program Files". They finally dumped "My Documents" bs with a legacy link, but still persist with "Program Files" and now added insult "Program Files (x86)". I guess "c\programs" and "c:\programs32" with legacy symbolic links was just too much to ask for. -- Take care, Jonathan ------------------- LITTLE WORKS STUDIO http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com |
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"This free Windows 10 upgrade offer still works. Here's why --and how to get it"
Lynn McGuire wrote:
"This free Windows 10 upgrade offer still works. Here's why -- and how to get it" https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-f...how-to-get-it/ "More than three years after Microsoft’s free upgrade offer officially ended, people are still reporting successful Windows 10 upgrades from older machines. Here’s the latest extremely unofficial report." Surely nothing could go wrong upgrading the ten PCs at my office running Windows 7 x64 Pro. Lynn I updated 3 this week, 2 with Windows 7 Pro, and 1 with "Home Premium", and nothing really went wrong. Did it take some time to reconfigure the machines and learn a bit about Windows 10: Yes. The upgrade is the easy part; for the most part, you don't even have to watch. While I was upgrading my second one, I went to the grocery store--came home and it was "done". |
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"This free Windows 10 upgrade offer still works. Here's why --and how to get it"
Lynn McGuire wrote:
"This free Windows 10 upgrade offer still works. Here's why -- and how to get it" https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-f...how-to-get-it/ "More than three years after Microsoft’s free upgrade offer officially ended, people are still reporting successful Windows 10 upgrades from older machines. Here’s the latest extremely unofficial report." Surely nothing could go wrong upgrading the ten PCs at my office running Windows 7 x64 Pro. Lynn https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/soft...load/windows10 You want the upgrade assistant. It's free. |
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"This free Windows 10 upgrade offer still works. Here's why --and how to get it"
On 12/30/19 6:50 PM, Paul wrote:
TheÂ*machineÂ*willÂ*promptÂ*forÂ*anÂ*MSA,Â*suchÂ*a sÂ*aÂ*cloud TheÂ*homeÂ*directoryÂ*willÂ*endÂ*upÂ*"mynam"Â*and theÂ*userÂ*will *hate*Â*this.Â*IfÂ*youÂ*wantÂ*toÂ*make theÂ*machineÂ*cloudÂ*ready,Â*myÂ*guessÂ*isÂ*adding Â*an MSAÂ*laterÂ*isÂ*theÂ*bestÂ*routeÂ*toÂ*take. IfÂ*youÂ*useÂ*aÂ*localÂ*accountÂ*(myÂ*nameÂ*isÂ*Bu llwinkle byÂ*theÂ*way),Â*thenÂ*theÂ*homeÂ*directoryÂ*willÂ* beÂ*fullÂ*length andÂ*underÂ*myÂ*control.Â*MyÂ*homedirÂ*willÂ*be "bullwinkle". This is worth noting for everyone. My first install of the Insider version the first week it was out I did the MSA thing and got that stupid home dir name. Ever since I've started with the local account so the home dir comes out as 'alan'. I have a lot of scripts etc that think the home is C:\users\alan, so the MSA just puts one big load of work on my back. I never could understand why MS couldn't ask for your home folder name. Al |
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"This free Windows 10 upgrade offer still works. Here's why -- and how to get it"
In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Mon, 30 Dec 2019 23:53:09 -0500, "Jonathan
N. Little" wrote: Paul wrote: Jonathan N. Little wrote: Paul wrote: If I entered John Smith, then the homedir ends up with a space in the name, which is fine too. Which having spaces in usernames makes user-level security on network shares a real PITA. You would think MS would follow other OS's and a username generated from a fullname "John Smith" would be a more reasonable: john johns john_smith johnMACHINENAME ... anything but "John Smith" It's pretty obvious Microsoft wants us to learn the gentle art of "quoting stuff" to insulate. An OS isn't an OS unless you've got "\"\" multilevel quotes "\"\" around everything :-) When they weren't sure "John Smith" would be a nuisance, they threw in a "My Documents" to make sure. Oh, and a "Program Files". They finally dumped "My Documents" bs with a legacy link, but still persist with "Program Files" and now added insult "Program Files (x86)". I guess "c\programs" and "c:\programs32" with legacy symbolic links was just too much to ask for. Any program that lets me choose where to put it, I put in c:\programs. The guy I bought the compter from upgraded it from 7 to 10 and called the owner "owner". Data goes into C:\data. Documeents into c:\data\text or maybe subdirs of finance, medical, Dan [my brother], etc. |
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