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Oohhh damn.

Now the day is finally upon us that I remember a few years ago a mate got a corporate key of Windows 7 Ultimate from his mate who works for MS. We were both having a moan at RAM limit on our Win 7 Home Premium. We both used the key and I've reserved Win10 against this key.

I wonder what will happen. I don't even remember if I have the key anymore.

Get your wallet out!! :D
 
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Well DOSBOX. 7.4 works fine ,Had a play with Alone in the dark all great
had alittle trouble editing CFG.Files in wordpad as comes up permission is denied when trying to save a Config File & at edit the security of that file .

Kaspersky internet security 2015 no good when upgrade over windows 7 pro, at to use the 2016 build & carry on with my year licence just fine.
http://products.kaspersky-labs.com/english....614en_8210.exe

windows pro oem key was automaticly activated after upgrade to 10
i made a iso from the MediaCreationToolx64 & burnt it to DVD for furture use on clean install if needed
 
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dism /online /cleanup-image /startcomponentcleanup

running that at cmd seems to have sorted my apps not opening and now the start button works.
 
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sorry if im repeating. I have upgraded from 8.1 to today just now. It has all installed fine but I'd like to now do a fresh install.

Just checking before though.... My Windows 10 is not activated. I click activate and it then says 'Windows can't activate. Try again later'

I presume its not a good to do a clean install as my windows key is not activated on my account yet?
 
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Go into device manager, uninstall your ethernet, reboot, see if it installs itself when pc back up.

That's a point, have Microsoft factored in different mobo manufacturer's only having windows 8 drivers for their hw? Or is 10 designed to work with win8 drivers?

The drivers are the default intel ones but when i checked on the website I could only find the windows 8 ones. I tried to install them under compatibility mode for windows 8s but the drivers failed to install and just rolled back.

I did what you said and deleted the drivers. It reinstalled them okay I can see them in the device manager but it still shows no network connections

I am also getting an error in the event log

The speed of processor 4 in group 0 is being limited by system firmware.
 
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sorry if im repeating. I have upgraded from 8.1 to today just now. It has all installed fine but I'd like to now do a fresh install.

Just checking before though.... My Windows 10 is not activated. I click activate and it then says 'Windows can't activate. Try again later'

I presume its not a good to do a clean install as my windows key is not activated on my account yet?

As mentioned before, MS servers are being hammered so give it time to activate. May take a day or 2. Dont do anything until it has been activated
 
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I have 3 x PC's and a Tablet all running Windows 8.1 pro, not a sign Winows 10 on any of them :(

Tempted to do a clean install of the ISO which I'm going to do even if my machines do automatically upgrade to 10 but I'm a little worried about activation, as i understand it 10 activates through the upgrade process only?
 

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The drivers are the default intel ones but when i checked on the website I could only find the windows 8 ones. I tried to install them under compatibility mode for windows 8s but the drivers failed to install and just rolled back.

I did what you said and deleted the drivers. It reinstalled them okay I can see them in the device manager but it still shows no network connections

I am also getting an error in the event log

The speed of processor 4 in group 0 is being limited by system firmware.

did you say you have a wireless adapter as well?
 
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Finally got the upgrade to start on my laptop. It originally shipped with Vista 32bit with a free upgrade to 7 when it was released. The 7 upgrade was still only 32 bit so I used the upgrade key with my 7 64 bit retail media. Anyone want to make any bets as to if the 10 upgrade will be 32 or 64 bit? :D
 
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I have 3 x PC's and a Tablet all running Windows 8.1 pro, not a sign Winows 10 on any of them :(

Tempted to do a clean install of the ISO which I'm going to do even if my machines do automatically upgrade to 10 but I'm a little worried about activation, as i understand it 10 activates through the upgrade process only?

Yes. You need to do the upgrade first then once activated you can do a clean install
 
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I just spammed the activate button. after about 15-20 click I was activatamundo! :D

Good shout, just done the same and it's activated after the 12th click. :)

This is actually really smooth and responsive on my laptop considering it's 4 years old.

Office 365 installed, setup my Google Apps accounts on the built in mail app and all is running good.
 
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Finally got the upgrade to start on my laptop. It originally shipped with Vista 32bit with a free upgrade to 7 when it was released. The 7 upgrade was still only 32 bit so I used the upgrade key with my 7 64 bit retail media. Anyone want to make any bets as to if the 10 upgrade will be 32 or 64 bit? :D

My guess you will have to start again!!
 
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