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Installing Win10 onto your computer is remarkably painless these days. My adventures with Windows based computers started with Win3.11 in 1995ish, and Ive used most of the later operating systems over the next 20 years. I have to say that after no end of problems installing Windows over the years today its very very painless. This is to be a quick walkthrough of how to do a Win10 upgrade from Win7 or Win8.
EDIT - this was done with a wired connection onto my lan - if you are upgrading a laptop you will get the option to connect to your wifi during the build process.
We all loved Win7 but lets be brutally honest, fabulous though it was, its out of support now and getting increasingly vulnerable to attack. Its time to think about an upgrade. First of all you need to make a few decisions on what your upgrade route will be:
You could ditch the Microsoft ecosystem completely and go Mac or Linux. Ive used Linux Mint on an old laptop & its ok for basic browsing but for power users who like tinkering under the bonnet its a whole new learning experience. However if you are going down the windows route then read on.
Next decision - are you going to upgrade an existing installation or blitz it and start with a blank hard drive?? So far my experiments have been with a blank hard drive but I shall bite the bullet and upgrade an existing laptop in the near future to see how that goes. I shall document that in a seperate thread.
So you are going to upgrade. You can upgrade on the fly, but as our internet connection isnt fantastic (8meg on a good day) I downloaded the Win10 iso and put it onto a usb memory stick, and thats the upgrade route I shall talk you through. The general principles will be similar for an in situ upgrade.
Go here
and download the media creation tool.
Run it & you will get the option to upgrade the existing computer or download the iso. I selected the download iso option & if you put an 8gb memory stick into the computer you can create the bootable stick you need during the process. All very clever & saves mucking around with third party software to do it. You can choose 32bit 64 bit or a dual version. As I want to experiment with upgrading some really old kit over the winter I chose the dual option.
So after you have created the media boot the computer using the memery stick - you will need to select the appropriate boot option in the bios
If you have chosen the 32bit / 64bit option you will see this:
Apologies for the reflections!
EDIT - this was done with a wired connection onto my lan - if you are upgrading a laptop you will get the option to connect to your wifi during the build process.
We all loved Win7 but lets be brutally honest, fabulous though it was, its out of support now and getting increasingly vulnerable to attack. Its time to think about an upgrade. First of all you need to make a few decisions on what your upgrade route will be:
You could ditch the Microsoft ecosystem completely and go Mac or Linux. Ive used Linux Mint on an old laptop & its ok for basic browsing but for power users who like tinkering under the bonnet its a whole new learning experience. However if you are going down the windows route then read on.
Next decision - are you going to upgrade an existing installation or blitz it and start with a blank hard drive?? So far my experiments have been with a blank hard drive but I shall bite the bullet and upgrade an existing laptop in the near future to see how that goes. I shall document that in a seperate thread.
So you are going to upgrade. You can upgrade on the fly, but as our internet connection isnt fantastic (8meg on a good day) I downloaded the Win10 iso and put it onto a usb memory stick, and thats the upgrade route I shall talk you through. The general principles will be similar for an in situ upgrade.
Go here
and download the media creation tool.
Run it & you will get the option to upgrade the existing computer or download the iso. I selected the download iso option & if you put an 8gb memory stick into the computer you can create the bootable stick you need during the process. All very clever & saves mucking around with third party software to do it. You can choose 32bit 64 bit or a dual version. As I want to experiment with upgrading some really old kit over the winter I chose the dual option.
So after you have created the media boot the computer using the memery stick - you will need to select the appropriate boot option in the bios
If you have chosen the 32bit / 64bit option you will see this:
Apologies for the reflections!
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