Windows 10: Testing 10240 Upgrader: 10166 to 10240 Activated

When backward and made a clean install of the 10166 release directly in the bootup sequence (Legacy: no BIOS setup). Took less then 15 minutes and got no error to report. Made the settings off-line: Internet disconnect. Set default apps with Windows Update switch set to off. Reboot and enable Windows update: Received language pack update only.

Upgrade to 10240 with an active Internet connection directly from the ISO file (see screenshots): Right click on the file and click on Mount, then click on the SETUP file. Follow the process don't touch nothing (it will reboot several times). It takes about 25-30 minutes. Ain't got no error to report: The 10166 upgrade to 10240 was a perfect sequence. A+ ounce again.

You must revisit settings because many of them have been changed by the upgrader.


All the best,

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App Store

Fixed in build 10166 and build 10240. So you need to upgrade.

 

Windows 10 Activation Product Key?

Build 10240 did not need a Product Key when I installed it over Build 10166. It created a Product Key itself different from that in Build 10166 and activated. It is my understanding that the Product Key will be created during the upgrade and activation process
and kept in MS servers for the particular machine at hand. We will learn soon enough, when July 29 arrives.

 

Similar story - installed 10166, (not activated). Over 24 hours it upgraded to 10240, (not activated). Due to some problems I did a reset after another day, and on the next day when it returned from hibernation it activated.

 

I only enter the product key of 10166 and none for the upgrade.

 

no product key entered -just skipped thru.

 

Looks like the 10240 upgrade Product Key was a theatrical scenario... Any way, it's quite and stable and never been that quite.