[PVRCNC] [PVRC] Win10 install

[Larry Stowell]

My experience is much like Mark's, only less computers.
I updated our Dell laptop running win7 pro 32 bit, it has 160 Gig drive,
with about 40 gig left now. It went very smooth and I did it wirelessly
downloading executable to a thumb drive it took just a short while
to answer all the leading questions. When it came up and said the computer
will shut off and reboot several times I just left it go and went to 
breakfast with
my OCRA group at Bo's and two hours later it was done. So far I'm pleasantly
surprised the only stumbling I'm doing is on the new Windows edge.

73 Larry K1ZW

-----Original Message----- 
From: Mark n2qt
Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2015 11:18 AM
To: PVRC Reflector
Subject: Re: [PVRC] Win10 install

So far I've updated 2 laptops and one win8.1 tablet.  I did disk image 
backups first.
I went to windows update which seemed to show the update was possible before 
the
Win10 app showed this.  None of these are used for ham radio as I was 
unwilling to
chance messing up all the sound cards and comports.  I have so far seen no 
issues.
I did lose the preview icons on the desktop (just a black 'hole' where 
normally the
first page of a PDF would normally be) but these were re established after a 
reboot.
Took a couple hours of which much was used for downloading as not all 
devices
had network visibility of each other to grab downloaded files stored 
locally.  Updates
one from Win7 64 home, one win7 pro 32 bit and the tablet was win 8.1 with 
Bing
which is the cheapie windows for tablets. Only four more to go!

I have been running windows 10 tech preview for the CW/RTTY skimmer for 
several
months on a separate machine with few issues (usually related to display 
issues when
using TeamViewer remotely) during that time.

Each device had lots of free disk space except the tablet, which uses 
Wimboot
and only has a 32GB drive.

Will do the shack computers after the SCC RTTY test at month end.

Mark. N2QT

> On Aug 5, 2015, at 10:53 AM, Howard Hoyt <howie.n4af at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Since I support a Windows logging program, the decision was made to force
> install Windows 10 before  the formal invite.
>
> One criticism I have of the process is that it takes a LONG time. This is
> good in that a LOT of checks are run, but it is BAD in that I had to go
> thru 3 failures where the reason for the failure was not given:
>
> "WINDOWS INSTALLATION HAS FAILED". Gee, thanks a lot.
>
> The usual remedies of removing services or delete of $BT files changed
> nothing and I was not ready to disconnect ancillary drives.
>
> FWIW, expanding free space on C: from 20Gb to 35Gb did work. Whether this
> is because it was SSD, I cannot say. This was from
> Win7 Pro  to Win10 Pro. So it would seem the advice for at least 20Gb may
> be too small.
> ref: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-10-specifications
>
> FYI/YMMV
>
> 73,
>
> Howie N4AF
>
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