Windows 10 is here

I was over in the IT BS thread and posted some memory usage info

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/it-bs-thread.198769/page-96#post-10550953

 

I've got a shop laptop that is older and barely gets used. I'll update that.

 

Yeah you can roll back within the first 30 days.

 

ayy

 

Windows 7 x64

This is what I did:

1. 'Create a system image' on a hard drive or DVD's (Control Panel/Backup & Restore) of your current ACTIVATED Win7 OS. Make repair disc if you don't have one.

2. Go here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 run it & download the ISO of your current OS (32bit or 64bit).

3. Burn ISO to disc (right click), reinsert disc after burn & upgrade your OS.

4. After all the dust has settled, go to: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/product_cd_key_viewer.html & download the zip file, extract, run & you should have 2 product keys 1 old (IE) & 1 new (Win10). That is your brand spanking new Windows 10 ACTIVATION key for that ISO you burned on that PC.

5. Now you can do a normal clean install with that key, keep upgraded as is or restore Windows 7 from the repair disc (as I did) with no time restraints on the SAME PC.

I have gone back & forth a few times already...Your mileage may vary.

 

Been using Win10 for about a week now at home, I actually like it.

 

Yeah I've been running a week now too. Works great. Only hiccup so far is my pc can't find my printer. Network issue I think as it is a networked printer. Got it to find and install but can't find to print. Always says offline. Annoying. Can't get into my router either. Disabled windows and antivirus firewall even. Kind of odd.

 

Check IPv4 vs IPv6. If you're using older hardware for printer / router, it may not have proper or working IPv6 support. And, if you have a recent rig that's trying to use IPv6 natively....

Also, check NetBIOS or the possible lack thereof. Use pings to verify actual connectivity.

Once you get past all that, THEN you're looking at driver or browsing issues.

 

Will have to look into this. Printer is an HP 6700 and is like 6 months old. They had a Win 10 driver online (or so they claimed).

Router is less than 2yrs. Don't know the specs off top of my head.

 

I'd start with the driver. I seriously doubt you are using ipv6 in your house. You would have had to specially configure it on your router. I work in IT and I don't know of anyone using ipv6 inside their home network. If you have an IP like x.x.x.x it's ipv4. There are more than enough private addresses for almost any network... Definitely enough for the biggest home network you could ever build. A single class c is probably bigger than most home networks.

 

My point was that her new rig might be trying to use IPv6 with Win 10 (2 of my 3 did this). If her internal house stuff is IPv4 only, that'd be a problem

 

Who you talking about? Her who? Kyitty is a dude according to the profile on the left side of the forum.

 

Yeah but if it was a printer driver issue why can't I log into my router? Type in 192.168.1.1 and find nothing.

 

Are you positive that's what it is?

 

Will find out when I get home. LoL

 

Sorry, sorry, didn't look for a pronoun type

 

Seems to be ok. I have it installed on my shop laptop (Toshiba Satellite A135-S4527).

 

Saw a headline today about a Win 10 auto update that has caused some computers to reboot endlessly.