Windows 10: win 10 preview

hi

im interested in downloading & installing the new windows 10 tecnical preview but have a few questions.
-can i dual boot it with my current os.
-how stable is it? will i be able to install software & games? generally use it as a main os.
-is there a time limit?
-will microsoft continually supply us with updates or will i have to reinstall a new os every time they bring out a new update.

thanks in advanced
james

:)

 

Windows 10 Family Safety Requires Children To Have A Microsoft Account?

We just upgraded our son's Win 7 Pro to Win 10 Pro. While trying to setup Family Safety, it apparently requires the child to have a Microsoft account.

On Win 7, both the administrator and child accounts were local. Am I missing something or is Microsoft requiring a 5 year old to have an email account (which is unacceptable). We would like ALL accounts to be local and for Family Safety to register with
the Microsoft account (as it did in Win 7).

The instructions say:

• 
  If they don't have an email address, click The person I want to invite doesn’t have an email address.
  
• 
  After they've accepted the email invitation, have them sign in to Windows 10 using the same email address you sent the invitation to.
  

But how can they accept the invitation if they don't have an email address?

Any advice is appreciated.

----- Update ----

After waiting 2 hours to chat with Microsoft technical support, they confirmed that they REQUIRE child accounts to have an email address.

MS Tech Support: "I checked however on Windows 10, it will be a requirement, it could be for enhanced security feature"

Absolutely ridiculous they expect a child to have an email address and it's required to protect them.

Hope this helps someone and we are downgrading.

 

Windows 10 Family Safety Requires Children To Have A Microsoft Account?

We couldn't agree with you more Dutchboi and unfortunately this wasn't an oversight on Microsoft's part, it was deliberate.

After doing a little more research, I found the following on the FTC's website regarding the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, 15 U.S.C. 6501–6505 (COPPA):

"Rule Summary:

COPPA imposes certain requirements on operators of websites or online services directed to children under 13 years of age, and on operators of other websites or online services that have actual knowledge that they are collecting personal information online
from a child under 13 years of age."

Source

Also, Microsoft does not disclose upfront that they charge $.50 per child for the following reason:

"Microsoft and Family Safety comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) regarding online account creation for children under the age of 13. To verify that an adult is giving a child permission to create a new Microsoft account,
COPPA requires that a small amount be charged to the adult's credit card. We charge 50 cents for this verification. These charges aren't refundable."

Source

 

Hi and welcome to TenForums,
Dual boot works fine as wine doing it with win-7 *Smile
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/2...ndows-8-a.html

Updates come just as they do with any os *Smile

 

is there a time limit and is it stable enough to install software and games

 

I'm not much of a gamer but I'm sure you shouldn't have any issues ?
It seems pretty stable to me it is a preview so testing would be your view of performance plus anyone else that does the same during the preview Leave feedback using the feedback app *Wink
Plus post here to inform others *Smile

Time limit well there's always that chance we're not insiders at Microsoft but no short term or anything but that's has been discovered yet but it is free *Smile
Cheers.

 

can you help me with this. what do i type in the box? Im looking to give windows 10 a partition size of 200gb

 

Hi,
Partition or Volume - Create New - Windows 7 Help Forums
1gig = 1024 mg
The least I would use is about 40 gigs which would be 1024x40=40960

 

so if i enter 200000mb in the box i would roughly get a blank partition of 200gb

 

Well you only have 86560 avalible so No I wouldn't enter that nuber you posted *Sad

 

ok, so if i leave it with 86560MB entered in the box and press SHRINK I will get a blank partition that is around 87GB in size

 

I believe the closer number would be 85 rounded up,

But keep in mind your Shrinking I suppose your win-7 patition so do not use the maximum it shows,
I post half of the Avalible space if you want to do some cleaning we can use Disk cleanup and cleanup system files and see what it cleans up ?
Disk Cleanup - Open and Use - Windows 7 Help Forums
After opening disk cleanup use the Clean up system files option,
There you'll also see Out dated windows updates that can be removed,
More options will remove all but the most recent restore points as well if your machine is working well,

Then your going to need to defragment your hard drive,
Disk Defragmenter - Open and Use - Windows 7 Help Forums

Then post what the difference is,
Cheers.

 

Please also see this,
Disk Management - Post a Screen Capture Image - Windows 7 Help Forums

 

i have mounted the iso file to my usb flash drive using rufus, everything completed. i went to bios to instruct the laptop to look at the usb. it showed an error saying something like nothing can be found, insert media and press any key.
i then mounted the iso file with the windows 7 to usb dvd program and same thing happens.

what am i doing wrong?

 

As ThrashZone stated, it would help if we could see exactly what your Disk Management screen showed. Does your computer report having a lot more free space than the 85GB it says you can shrink the partition by? If so, you may need to take some steps to be able to use the total available space. In my case, it said I had 400GB free, but could only shrink the partition by ~100GB. It had to do with the location of the pagefile and system restore files on the hard drive. To fix it, I temporarily disabled both, then shrunk the volume by 350GB, then re-enabled both.