Windows 10: Windows 7 and 8 users are now able to reserve their free copy of W10

I use a local account on both W8.1 and W7, but I use Hotmail and am logged into that most of the time.

 

Just noticed the option to check your PC, it says my graphics card isn't compatible and I will have problems with the display even though I can install win 10

hopefully this is just a driver that will come out in time for the release

 

Local account may be why you got asked for an e-mail address. Just a guess at this point. You did the reservation via the taskbar icon right? Just want to confirm.

 

Mine says "Your PC is Ready" "Your good to go".

 

No. When I clicked on the windows icon on the task bar in W7 and checked it said everything was ready and I didn't need to do anything else. It was only on the W8.1 install that it asked me to reserve a copy.

This is from my W7 install.

 

OK, don't know what to tell you then. Weird?

 

I wonder if the Tin Foil Hats that uninstalled/blocked the DiagTracking(KB 3022345) update are this.

People are getting false positives when running SFC/DISM and get that "telemetry.ASM-WindowsDefault.json" & "utc.app.json" can't be repaired, so they uninstall or re-image and hide the update. I've had to explain to a few not to worry about those false positives, but they just go ahead and uninstalled*Banghead.

 

Have not got my notification yet...but I do have auto updates switched off as I prefer to do them manually.

Just downloaded and installed a few updates so hopefully when my machine restarts it will be there.

 

I did not see any icon in the taskbar but when I checked updates I was asked if I wanted to reserve a copy. It is now reserved.

The only concern I have is that I just did a clean install of Window 8.1 PRO and Office 2013 because of a couple of programs that did not work properly with Windows 10 and Office 2016. I did send in bug reports so I hope the release version will make me happy.

Ak

 

Please help. i m running registered windows 8.1 pro with automatically updates enabled and all updates including optional ones installed but i have not got Get windows 10 notification or anything like that for reservation. i checked updates just now but no new update available. any ideas what to do?? can i manually install this reservation app etc?

 

Maybe it takes a bit longer to get to Pakistan? *Shock

 

Thank you , for mentioning the notification in the system tray. I just saw it and now my Windows 10 is Reserved.
Sometimes we can miss those simple little things, until someone mentions them.
Thanks again!

*Cool

 

yea you are right but i even have not installed the update which brought this reservation App I.e KB 3035583 i checked in my installed updates for that. actually this update was provided by Microsoft few months ago and pakistani consumers should have it already for now. *Huh

 

Hmmmm! I'm not sure I really want to give up my Windows 8.1 for Windows 10, so before I install 10, I'll clone my main HD to another similar drive, so I preserve my 8.1, just in case I don't really like Windows 10.

I'll have basically a Dual Boot system, with 8.1 on one HD and Win-10 on another.

Y'all have a great day now, Y'hear?

*Cool

 

I followed the steps in the 2nd post here and it enabled the notification:

I want to reserve my free copy of Windows 10, but I dont see - Microsoft Community

• Open Notepad
• Copy the following text and paste it into Notepad:

reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Appraiser" /v UtcOnetimeSend /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
schtasks /run /TN "\Microsoft\Windows\Application Experience\Microsoft Compatibility Appraiser"
:CompatCheckRunning
schtasks /query /TN "\Microsoft\Windows\Application Experience\Microsoft Compatibility Appraiser" | findstr Ready >nul
if NOT "%errorlevel%" == "0" ping localhost >nul &goto :CompatCheckRunning
schtasks /run /TN "\Microsoft\Windows\Setup\gwx\refreshgwxconfig"

• Click File, and then Save As
• In the File name box, change the file name to ReserveWin10.cmd
• Then click the dropdown next to Save as type, and select All files (*.*)
• Select the folder you would like to save the file to. For this example, let’s choose to save the file to the C:/Temp folder. Then click Save.
• Open an elevated command prompt. (From the Start screen or Start menu, type Command Prompt in the search box, and then in the list of results, right-click Command Prompt, and select Run as administrator.)
• Finally, run the file from the location you saved to in Step 6. In this example, you would type the following in the Command Prompt window and hit Enter:
  Run C:/Temp/ReserveWin10.cmd