Well that sucked (last one wouldn't upgrade)

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My last holdout machine would not upgrade Thursday night and then failed again on Friday. By the time I tried it one last time on Saturday, it asked for a Win10 product key...oh well.

Before Thursday:
- Did not like the way Win10 was behaving on the other systems. The upgrade removed the media center (knew that going in but...)
- Win10 could not find the right bluetooth drivers for the mouse/keyboard and the Logitech installs would barf on re-installation
- Did not like all the telemetry data going out
- Felt Win10 was not as polished as Win7
- Since end of June my ISP was tanking in delivery of service (getting only 2.9Mb when I should be getting 12Mb, or at least 9Mb) so downloads were taking forever and then disconnecting

Thursday:
- Installation died with an error for file permissions, restarted with the Admin profile
- Died with an error, that looking up pointed to a bad disk, which was incorrect as the SSD reads just fine

Friday:
- Error detected another Win10 install, so I wiped installed Win7 again
- Saturday morning I see "Installation Failed" with no error message so I restarted and then the installation says needs Win10 key. I try all my other keys including the two Win10 developers keys I had when I was pulling the images from the developers' slow ring.
- Then skipped the licenses and got another Installation failed with no error message.

 

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Does anyone know if Win10 has the same "vanilla" function like the previous versions of XP and Win7? What I mean is that you can reset the hive to a blank slate which will rebuild the hive to fit the motherboard and processor data.

I used it before to switch motherboards, going from an AMD to Intel, and it worked fine. It needed several reboots but it was quicker than reinstalling the OS and all the apps again.

Hmmmm...that won't work. I still want my build of the current system. I would just be cloning the other system build and lose what I have installed on this system.

But it would be nice to know if this still possible.

 

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I did my last comp sat morning using this

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/acc...)(2459594)(TnL5HPStwNw-0N2KwJltoBEyyec3YxvCEg)()

worked fine

 

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Well that finally worked. Now I have some SSDs with Win7 and Win10 images. Win10 seems to be faster than Win7 and they finally worked with Logitech to get their Blue tooth drivers to work but I still want to disable Cortina and some other things. It is an improvement from the initial release.

Still no word from Microsoft on if you can "genericize" the Hive to accept any hardware profile on restart.