Introducing windows 10 Your FREE upgrade is waiting...

[Muse]

This is probably old news for most of you. Myself, my two Windows 7 machines (one is Ultimate 64bit, the other is Home Premium 32bit) have been in limbo vis a vis Windows Updates because of inability to successfully install updates. This is still the case with the Windows Ultimate machine but I managed to get Windows Update working on the other machine (this) and now it's popping up that message in a little blue screen:

Introducing windows 10 Your FREE upgrade is waiting...

So, I was wondering WTF is going on, and googled it and found out that it's not some malware but Microsoft's own program, you have until one year from the release to get your free upgrade.

Now, I'm wondering (of course) if going through that process is wise. This is the machine with the messages and I've been having frequent (multiple daily) issues with freezes implicating iaStor0, being evidently the Intel 330 180GB SSD in the machine, which still has a couple months on its 3 year warranty (I only installed it around 1.5 years ago, though).

I could image the SSD and do the Windows 10 upgrade and if that doesn't work, restore Windows 7, I presume... don't know if I'd be in some trouble with Microsoft if I do so. Maybe I should upgrade to Windows 10 on the Windows Ultimate machine. To do so I'd probably have to install Windows 7 from scratch on it from the DVD because it just won't successfully pull off Windows Update without having to spend a couple of hours sorting itself out after the failure to install all important updates (I did that the other day, there were 118 important updates to install and after ~8 hours of Windows wrangling with itself it finally booted "stable." Running Windows Update again to find important updates it says there are now 87 to install. I know that wouldn't work).

 

[SparkyJJO]

Tons of info already posted about this, but yeah...

You can always get the Win10 update and do it, which reserves your copy any time you want to reinstall on that machine, and go back to Win7 if you desire. Going to Win10 does not invalidate your Win7 license. Just has to be one or the other running. You just can't upgrade to Win10 on that machine and then move the Win7 license to another machine.

I'm running 10 now on my computer. The upgrade was 99% trouble free with just a couple minor nuisances to take care of. I did remove all device drivers first before doing the upgrade, just to be sure, and had the Win10 drivers already downloaded.

 

[Compman55]

This is probably old news for most of you. Myself, my two Windows 7 machines (one is Ultimate 64bit, the other is Home Premium 32bit) have been in limbo vis a vis Windows Updates because of inability to successfully install updates. This is still the case with the Windows Ultimate machine but I managed to get Windows Update working on the other machine (this) and now it's popping up that message in a little blue screen:

Introducing windows 10 Your FREE upgrade is waiting...

So, I was wondering WTF is going on, and googled it and found out that it's not some malware but Microsoft's own program, you have until one year from the release to get your free upgrade.

Now, I'm wondering (of course) if going through that process is wise. This is the machine with the messages and I've been having frequent (multiple daily) issues with freezes implicating iaStor0, being evidently the Intel 330 180GB SSD in the machine, which still has a couple months on its 3 year warranty (I only installed it around 1.5 years ago, though).

I could image the SSD and do the Windows 10 upgrade and if that doesn't work, restore Windows 7, I presume... don't know if I'd be in some trouble with Microsoft if I do so. Maybe I should upgrade to Windows 10 on the Windows Ultimate machine. To do so I'd probably have to install Windows 7 from scratch on it from the DVD because it just won't successfully pull off Windows Update without having to spend a couple of hours sorting itself out after the failure to install all important updates (I did that the other day, there were 118 important updates to install and after ~8 hours of Windows wrangling with itself it finally booted "stable." Running Windows Update again to find important updates it says there are now 87 to install. I know that wouldn't work).

Did you crawl out from a cave? Windows 10 has been insalled on mine since 8/4/15 and I was even late as I was an insider so I could have gotten it earlier.


In summery:
-Get your win 7 install running good before upgrading. Replace SSD if it is bad.
-Use another hard drive if needed and do the upgrade first to get you hardware signature on microshafts server.
-Then you can install win 10 fresh if you wish.
-Type "windows 10 media creation tool" and run this. This will allow you to pick the upgrade option so you do not have to go thru all the windows update crap.