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Microsoft is Silently Preloading Windows 10 release

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 07/28/2015 09:41 PM | source: | 54 comment(s)
Microsoft is Silently Preloading Windows 10 release

If you registered for the Windows 10 upgrade you will receive a notice if and when you can download and update to the new OS. However many end-users now report a new hidden directory in their Windows install. It seems that Microsoft is pre-loading Windows 10 already.

Now first let me make it clear that this does not apply to all end-users who registered for the upgrade through the Windows icon in the taskbar. However if you want to check it out yourself, look for the following directory on your Windows installation: $windows.~BT

You will notice it's roughly 6GB in size, and it holds primary data for the Windows 10 upgrade. I just verified this myself from the laptop I am typing the this news-post from. The map is hidden, so in explorer make sure that you enable 'show hidden items'. If you have the directory, leave it alone and do not click setup would be my recommendation. Users worldwide are reporting that if you start the install, files still could be missing causing an install error.

Windows 10 will be released Wednesday in 190 countries and 111 languages. Microsoft promises a free upgrade to Windows 10 for Windows 7- and Windows 8.1 users under the condition that you upgrade within a year.



Microsoft is Silently Preloading Windows 10 release




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Bassarnis
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#5131197 Posted on: 07/29/2015 12:11 PM
None, so long as you upgraded first, and 10 was activated and online, you don't need a key for any subsequent installs


Seems weird. When i attempted to do a clean install of windows 8.1 , i got an error because i didn't have a product key for them, so the only way was to install windows 8, then upgrade to 8.1 via store. I hope that's the case because going through 3 OS installs just to get the "cleanest" possible install would be very time consuming.

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#5131199 Posted on: 07/29/2015 12:13 PM
Seems weird. When i attempted to do a clean install of windows 8.1 , i got an error because i didn't have a product key for them, so the only way was to install windows 8, then upgrade to 8.1 via store. I hope that's the case because going through 3 OS installs just to get the "cleanest" possible install would be very time consuming.


MS changed activation for 10 (For the free upgrade anyway), so long as you were genuine 7 or 8.1 before the upgrade, then your machines hardware ID & genuine status was sent and saved on MS servers, so when you reinstall 10 cleanly, it sends the machines Hardware ID back to their activation servers, it sees you were genuine before the upgrade, and activates your machine again

Many people, including myself on my main machine Im typing from, have done that fine

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#5131206 Posted on: 07/29/2015 12:22 PM
I have never seen these types of download speeds for anything else...



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#5131377 Posted on: 07/29/2015 03:12 PM
Opt out of the upgrade would have been the choice.


i wouldn't expect this silent pre-install , the right move should have been to notify the end user and give the choice to download or not

This makes me wonder how many stuff is being supervised "silently" in our systems....

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