Windows 10: Save your windows 10 Preview Drivers and Save the Hassle Later

Discus and support Save your windows 10 Preview Drivers and Save the Hassle Later in Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade to solve the problem; Everyone may have a slightly different key-path. In my case, cause I have OEM 8.1 Pro, I think MS will use the UEFI stored key to verify, then issue a... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade' started by Kyhi, Jun 9, 2015.

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  1. ALPHANUMERIC
    alphanumeric New Member

    Save your windows 10 Preview Drivers and Save the Hassle Later


    My laptop has a Windows 8.0 OEM key in the BIOS. I'm running 8.1 Pro though with Media Center though. That's three keys to pick from. If they use the 8.0 key I'll only get 10 Home. Use the 8.1 Pro key and I get 10 Pro. if I were to upgrade to the TP right now I would get the Pro version. What does a clean install get me? See where I'm going with this. *Wink It should be easy but it could be complicated.
     
    alphanumeric, Jun 10, 2015
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  2. F14TOMCAT
    f14tomcat Win User

    Get an iPad... *Roflmao2
     
    f14tomcat, Jun 10, 2015
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  3. F14TOMCAT
    f14tomcat Win User
    Seriously, though, it should work highest backward, LIFO, last key (highest) should be the "give up" key. Therefore, you get 10 Pro.
     
    f14tomcat, Jun 10, 2015
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  4. ALPHANUMERIC
    alphanumeric New Member

    Save your windows 10 Preview Drivers and Save the Hassle Later

    Both of my laptops have OEM 8.0 keys and both are running 8.1 Pro via my TechNet keys. Logic would say that Microsoft should use the 8.1 Pro keys and give me 10 Pro. We'll just have to wait and see though.
     
    alphanumeric, Jun 10, 2015
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  5. ALPHANUMERIC
    alphanumeric New Member
    Yes I agree. My point was, if you clean install, is it Home or Pro, and what version do you get when you upgrade to the RTM? If it installs Home, and you may miss out on a chance to get the pro version. It's only just recently that I noticed it saying 10 Home or 10 Pro. The early builds just said Windows 10.
     
    alphanumeric, Jun 10, 2015
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  6. F14TOMCAT
    f14tomcat Win User
    Do you know for certain which one is flashed in your BIOS? Either lappy? When I use Produkey (Nirsoft) it says "BIOS"....
     
    f14tomcat, Jun 10, 2015
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  7. ALPHANUMERIC
    alphanumeric New Member
    I use showkey, https://www.tenforums.com/software-ap...7-showkey.html it lists the BIOS key, original key, and installed key. For my laptop those would be the 8.0 OEM key, the 8.1 Pro key and the Media Center key.

    EDIT: Both laptops came with 8.0 Core. One of the first things I did after becoming an MVP was use add features to upgrade to Pro. Then when the free Media center offer was out there I got keys for that and used add features again. Those media center keys also work in 8.1.
     
    alphanumeric, Jun 10, 2015
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  8. F14TOMCAT
    f14tomcat Win User

    Save your windows 10 Preview Drivers and Save the Hassle Later

    Got to remember that one. TG they match!
     
    f14tomcat, Jun 10, 2015
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  9. KYHI
    Kyhi Win User
    Any word about the Media Center Upgrade with 10
    If 8 / 8.1 Pro with media Center = 10 Pro with media Center ??
     
    Kyhi, Jun 10, 2015
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  10. SLARTYBART
    Slartybart Win User
    Media Center is a casualty of the Win10 upgrade. Current status is that it will not carry over.

    Windows 10 FAQ Tips - Microsoft
     
    Slartybart, Jun 10, 2015
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  11. KYHI
    Kyhi Win User
    That's what I wanted to know.. thanks SB
     
    Kyhi, Jun 10, 2015
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  12. SLARTYBART
    Slartybart Win User
    You're welcome.
     
    Slartybart, Jun 10, 2015
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  13. ALPHANUMERIC
    alphanumeric New Member

    Save your windows 10 Preview Drivers and Save the Hassle Later

    Yeah, the Get Windows 10 app actually states it will be uninstalled during the upgrade, if you currently have it installed. I have Media Center on this PC and that's what it says.

    Information requiring your attention.
    Keep this in mind before you upgrade.
    Windows Media Center will be uninstalled during the upgrade. It isn't available in Windows 10.
     
    alphanumeric, Jun 10, 2015
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  14. DAVIDY
    DavidY Win User
    [/quote] Worth saying that this doesn't work with the /online parameter (at least it didn't when I tried it). It seems you need to do it with Windows offline (eg. booting with a WinPE USB) with something like this:
    Code: dism /image:c: /add-driver /driver:d:\Drivers /recurse[/quote] Although drive letters will probably be different to this -they probably won't be C: and D:
     
    DavidY, Jun 19, 2015
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  15. GARY
    Gary Win User
    They did

    Bad news for insiders they will have to give up a key for the RTM. - Page 13 - Windows 10 Forums
     
    Gary, Jun 19, 2015
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