Windows 10: I'm running 8 pc's: how to install W10 and keep my programs???

Folks,

As my title indicates, I've got a few machines. They're all running nicely. (Well, except for the Surface, but that's just the way the surface is...).

I'm VERY interested in upgrading to Windows 10 when it is released, especially since MS states it'll be free. (I understand the benefit of a uniform user base, so MS wins if we all upgrade.) From what I hear, W10 should be an improvement over W7.

My question: with all my machines, the idea of clean installs and having to relicense and reinstall the huge number of 3rd party programs I have is daunting. In fact, I probably will not upgrade just to avoid that hassle.

Is there ANY way to perform an in-place OS upgrade? Meaning, all the installed programs stay installed?

Thanks.

Ken

:)

 

Window 10 - game keep crashing

Same issue here,

DOTA 2 Keeps crashing. I'm running it on STEAM launcher. My Witcher 3 freezes then crashes also. Basically 80% of my software is incompatible with W10 Ent. My PC is running SLI GTX 580 GFX cards. 4GHZ CPU AMD 8350 etc.... point is I didn't have this issue
on Windows 7. Please fix this fast, we gamers dislike Windows 8, prefer 10 but it's software incompatibility is unacceptable! Repair all the .NET issues please, also having DX issues and various DLL's that aren't on W10.

 

Event ID 129 - storahci resetting raidport0

Hi,

I have two PC's, one running a standard version of W10 Pro and another running W10 Pro Insider Preview. The generic freeze only occured on the W10 Pro Insider Preview PC, where restoring the Intel drivers finally fixed it.

Unfortunately, "out of nowhere" the generic freeze problem started on my standard W10 Pro PC as of september 8. It only occurs (until now) during the first 20 minutes after start-up. Re-installing the Intel drivers on this PC does NOT solve the problem.

It appears the generic freeze problem is expanding...

 

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/2...ows-7-8-a.html

 

LOL! How did I miss that?

Excellent news. By "most apps", I hope it means "all MY apps". *Wink

 

Good luck. It seems to work good so far. I have tried it and lost nothing.

 

Yes -- but personally, I would recommend AGAINST doing that at this time. Main reason is that the "upgrade" is not reversible; that is, once you do the upgrade, you are stuck with it. To go back to your previous OS, you would then have to do a complete reinstall from scratch. That's not something I would want to tackle with 8 pcs.

Second reason is that Win10 is still very much work in progress, with changes (some of them not positive) coming with each new build. And, in some cases, new build introduce new problems which may then take some time to get fixed.

It's a "preview" for a reason -- we're all "beta testing" MS's new OS.

As to carrying everything over from an upgrade, no one can guarantee that. I did an in-place upgrade from Win8.1 to Win10TP and DID lose some apps in the process. The only way to know for sure is to do the upgrade -- and as I said, that's a one-way process.

 

I did it straight through Windows Update. I had registered for the preview beforehand though.

 

Yes -- but personally, I would recommend AGAINST doing that at this time. Main reason is that the "upgrade" is not reversible; that is, once you do the upgrade, you are stuck with it. To go back to your previous OS, you would then have to do a complete reinstall from scratch. That's not something I would want to tackle with 8 pcs.

Second reason is that Win10 is still very much work in progress, with changes (some of them not positive) coming with each new build. And, in some cases, new build introduce new problems which may then take some time to get fixed.

It's a "preview" for a reason -- we're all "beta testing" MS's new OS.

As to carrying everything over from an upgrade, no one can guarantee that. I did an in-place upgrade from Win8.1 to Win10TP and DID lose some apps in the process. The only way to know for sure is to do the upgrade -- and as I said, that's a one-way process. Hi there

CAPS AND BOLD DELIBERATE HERE.

YOU CAN ALWAYS REVERT BACK TO AN EARLIER OS -- TAKE A BACKUP BEFORE STARTING -- AGAIN TAKE A BACKUP BEFORE STARTING.

I'm not having a go at you -- just want to underline the importance OF ALWAYS TAKING A BACKUP before doing anything serious with a computer. Then if stuff doesn't work or you want to go back for any reason simply RESTORE your OS from the backup.

Cheers
jimbo

 

Yes -- but personally, I would recommend AGAINST doing that at this time. Main reason is that the "upgrade" is not reversible; that is, once you do the upgrade, you are stuck with it. To go back to your previous OS, you would then have to do a complete reinstall from scratch. That's not something I would want to tackle with 8 pcs.

Second reason is that Win10 is still very much work in progress, with changes (some of them not positive) coming with each new build. And, in some cases, new build introduce new problems which may then take some time to get fixed.

It's a "preview" for a reason -- we're all "beta testing" MS's new OS.

As to carrying everything over from an upgrade, no one can guarantee that. I did an in-place upgrade from Win8.1 to Win10TP and DID lose some apps in the process. The only way to know for sure is to do the upgrade -- and as I said, that's a one-way process. Hi there

CAPS AND BOLD DELIBERATE HERE.

YOU CAN ALWAYS REVERT BACK TO AN EARLIER OS -- TAKE A BACKUP BEFORE STARTING -- AGAIN TAKE A BACKUP BEFORE STARTING.

I'm not having a go at you -- just want to underline the importance OF ALWAYS TAKING A BACKUP before doing anything serious with a computer. Then if stuff doesn't work or you want to go back for any reason simply RESTORE your OS from the backup.

Cheers
jimbo ...but if you forget, the Windows 10 TP makes a backup of your old OS anyways and you can revert back through recovery settings easily. Heck, on my PC system restore showed up as a boot option everytime I started my computer. Works pretty flawless, but you will problably need to reinstall Microsoft's first-party Modern apps.

 

I think the original poster wanted to know about installing the final release of Windows 10, not the technical preview.As the date for the Windows 10 launch gets closer, I'm sure we will all get this question more and more frequently. I walys advise a full backup prior to beginning the "in place upgrade" in case something goes wrong. I prefer a clean install, so I'll be sure I have all of my licenses, info, etc... to re-install all of my applications after the clean install of Windows 10.

 

Oh. In that case, In-place upgrading is easy as pie, especially if Microsoft offers it directly through Windows Update like they do for the Preview.

 

An in place upgrade is possible, at least in the preview version and likely in the final version as well. Windows 10 is compatible with most software that runs on Windows 7. Of course their exceptions. The only way that Microsoft could guarantee absolute 100% compatibility is to make no changes in the OS at all. Obviously that is not an option. Even the most trivial changes in the OS can and has caused compatibility issues Note that an upgrade must be 32 bit to 32 bit or 64 bit to 64 bit. An upgrade from 32 bit to 64 bit or the reverse has never been possible.

A clean install is usually more trouble free but an in place upgrade may be more convenient. Your best option is to make an image backup and do a trial upgrade with 1 computer that has all applications in use. Be sure to do a thorough test with all applications after the upgrade. Depending on how that goes you can decide how to proceed with the others.

Previous versions of Windows have had an upgrade advisor that would warn about most compatibility issues and this will likely be available for Windows 10 as well. You would be well advised to use this before either an upgrade or clean install. This should be available when Windows 10 is released.

 

where is the beta offered through windows update in 8.1?