The release of Windows 10 it was probably on July 29 sparked strong enthusiasm. While Microsoft announced earlier that 14 million machines are already in Windows 10 past many of you to try installing on Tuesday evening. To prove our news recounting the beginning of preloading Windows 10 whose comments counter was packed and reached a historic record on Clubic.
At Microsoft France, Florent Pelissier, product manager told us Windows 10 be satisfied this positive major launch since no alert had been climbed. Recognizing that some of you will profit the weekend to move to Windows 10, we offer this quick guide update. A healthy reading in addition to our test Windows 10.
Upgrading from Windows 7 / Windows 8.1 Update
Users of Windows 7 / 8.1 genuine entitled to a free upgrade to Windows 10. They normally appear on the PC since their June app GWX or “ Get Windows 10 “in French. It is normally used to their book updating.
However you could meet on Tuesday evening various obstacles when trying to transition to Windows 10 through Windows Update. This is normal Microsoft had announced that the migration would be by wave. And many of the arcane codes of Windows Update error results from the fact that Microsoft does not yet allow your machine to do the update.
The solution exists, just edit the basis of registers as we indicated in our news on preloading Windows 10.
- Click start / run (or Windows key + R) and type regedit,
- Navigate in the tree HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionWindowsUpdateOSUpgrade,
- Créez a new 32-bit DWORD value named “AllowOSUpgrade”
- Double-click this value and give it the value “1″
- Make a turn Windows Update to search for updates normally we go for the move to Windows 10
which also gave news! advice, still valid to force the update on Windows Update to search the Windows Update or correct corruption problems.
Layout updated by the media creation tool
For some of you the different tricks to successfully launch the update via Windows Update fail. Or you may never have had the GWX application enabling you to book the upgrade to Windows 10, Windows Update prerequisite.
In this case, the best advice is to go through the Windows media creation tool 10. This little formal program to recover our repository will initiate the download of Windows 10 and start the update by keeping your files and programs. You will obviously opt for the upgrade from the start of the tool and thoroughly check the chosen setting for migrating your data & amp; . apps
We tested safely on a PC where Windows 8.1 update was painless: all our programs and applications have been transferred. Upon restart in Windows 10 we have click the link “Activate Now” this system settings that activated our PC in seconds.
Install Windows itself 10
The same tool allows a clean install that is to say, a clean installation of Windows 10. clean install should be performed after a successful upgrade to Windows 10, otherwise your activation will likely be lost. The same tool can create an installation media: Choose this option at boot, find a blank DVD or USB key best a slightly faster 4GB and choose the language and edition of Windows you want to reinstall. If you previously upgraded to a Windows x86 Family 10, this is the version that will select (the activation will be lost if you attempt to reinstall Windows 10 Professional x64 for example). Once the download and the installation media created simply restart your machine to begin the installation.
The activation must be maintained. If this was not the case you can start the activation by running in administrator mode from a command prompt:
If there is doubt on your Windows activation status you can always now run the following command after which a dialog box will tell you the state of activation.
Go Back
After a successful upgrade to Windows 10, you have 30 days to reverse. The system keeps indeed your old install and just take a tour of the settings, click “Update and security” and “Recovery”. You will find a button “Start” under “Downgrade to Windows 8.1.” Click it to find yourself again in Windows 8.1.
Recover disk space after updating
The update to Windows consumes some 10 Go on your system disk. Go for it would be good to recover. If you are sure not to need to go back to your previous version of Windows: go to the file explorer, right-click “C:” and then “Properties”. Click “Disk Cleanup” and after analyzing the button “Clean up system files.” Click the checkboxes “Windows Upgrade Log Files”, “Previous Windows installations” and “temporary installation files of Windows.” Clicking OK will start the cleaning.
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