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It might never release because there was no ultimate edition released for Windows 8 as well. Home edition is the basic edition of Windows It is suitable for normal computing. If you use your computer for general purposes and simple office works then you can use home edition.
Unlike Windows 7 home editions, Windows 10 Home has more freedom and features. Seriously, this is and there is no GB memory available in markets. Professional edition is suitable for smart business and professional who use computer as an important part in their working environment such as photography, video editing, troubleshooting, virtualization etc. Windows 10 Pro edition includes all features included in Home edition, plus following features:.
Enterprise edition is designed for large business, organizations and IT professionals. Overall, it has most features than all other editions. Though, it seems a great choice with maximum features, most of its features might be not practically usable by you or your company. Windows 10 Enterprise edition is suitable for organizations who are either dealing in IT profession or has a dedicated team of IT professionals to manage complicated tasks. It is generally observed that Enterprise edition is not suitable for individuals and non-IT literate organizations.
Education edition of Windows 10 is developed for academic institutes like schools, colleges, universities, libraries etc. This edition has almost same features like Enterprise except some business level features. All features of Windows 10 Pro are covered in Education edition. Microsoft has launched Media Creation Tool for Windows 10 download and upgrade.
You can upgrade your existing Windows OS using upgrade option. It will save your existing Windows files to recover in future if needed and upgrade to latest version of Windows 10 while keeping your apps, documents and personal files at the same place and condition as those were before upgrade. Download Windows 10 Media Creation Tool here. Windows 10 Update Assistant also known as Windows 10 Upgrade Assistant is best tool if you want to upgrade to Windows 10 latest version.
This tool requires internet connection till the upgrade process is finished. The upgrading will fail if internet connection is lost during downloading Windows 10 installation files. Update Assistant is fantastic software to update as it guides you in a step by step installation wizard to finish in the simplest way. It has a few steps to make upgrading easy. Once the downloading process starts, you can minimize Windows 10 Update Assistant program and keep using Windows.
The program will notify you when everything is ready and you will need to restart your computer. Download Windows 10 Update Assistant here. This is the best, easiest and most flexible method to get your desired version. You can use the ISO in different ways, like:. Downloading may fail and restart from beginning if internet connection is lost.
Links are given below:. Note: Following links will take you to the latest version of Windows 10 instead of the version listed in this post. Once you have created ultimate Windows 10 bootable USB using the Rufus of any other tool as mentioned above , you are ready to install Windows 10 using this USB flash drive. Make sure you have Win 10 installation USB disc with you.
Plug this flash drive into USB port of computer, then start or restart computer and follow these steps:. Now you are in installation setup.
Follow further steps to start and finish installation process. Now setup will start copying Windows files, expanding files, features installation and install updates included in ISO file. This process will take a while about minutes to finish and then your computer will restart automatically.
Next, Windows will start for the first time after installation. Just wait again while Windows 10 setup updates registry files and start services. The actual setup of Windows 10 installation is complete here. But you still have to configure things before you can actually start using Windows. This time, after restart, setup will prepare your computer for first use, check video performance and a few other things. Next screen will ask you enter a password for login to Windows This is optional.
You can skip password by leaving boxes blank and press Next button. Windows 10 has many, many drivers inbuilt particularly for Intel hardware. For drivers Windows 10 doesn’t have inbuilt it often obtains them automatically via Windows Update. Let me give an example. You can see that without doing anything after a few minutes all the system drivers are automatically installed… Pretty impressive!!!
One of the most common ones is the Intel Management Engine Interface driver that Windows 10 installs is old version To check the version right click the start button and then left click Device Manager. Then select properties. In the dialogue box left click the driver tab. Check the version:. You then want to launch the. There have also been Touchpad issues reported since the release of Windows 8 which seem to carry through onto Windows This can be resolved by a forced installation of one of the newer drivers via the Device Manager follow my guide Dell Touchpad Drivers.
Some have been reporting some instability with inbuilt wireless card drivers. See my guide Dell Wireless Cards. You may wish to visit the Downloads. If your system is new Dell may have some more up to date Windows 10 64 Bit drivers which may be installed.
Check your Windows Edition at the top and ensure that Windows is activated to the bottom. Note the Product ID may change slightly from the original install but Windows should be activated…. If Windows isn’t activated leave it 2 hours as the Activation Servers may be swamped and try again. If you still aren’t activated follow the instructions in Windows 10 Home to Pro but use your own key instead of the generic Pro Product Key.
For those who have made their system a Windows 10 Pro Device e. To do this right click start and select system:. You will now reach the Windows 10 Pro Version Desktop. Right click the Start button and select System:. After download and installation when win10 start at screen with window and welcome the pc always reboot. Some hint? Intel GM Graphics Controller, a few moment before screen with window there is another screen light magenta then window screen then reboot.
Try without the docking station I have the same configuration and it works. I haven’t tested my docking station out with Windows 10 yet. I have dell laptop, recently upgraded windows 10 and its in reboot loop. Unfortunately I don’t have windows 8 recovery disk also by default dell doesn’t provide the product key.
Can I download windows 10 and do clean install? Does it prompt for product key. Any suggestions. Also any links to download the recovery disk. Since I’m out of warranty dell asking me 30 pounds for recovery disc. Thanks Philip the article is useful and I’m able to get my product key using RW.
Be careful with the order you do things in Rufus follow the order listed as settings sometimes revert. I tried steps and it worked like charm, I’m back windows 8. Many Thanks. Will try windows 10 upgrade now after disabling the NVidia GeForce card.
Had an enter cd key screen on install, skipped this then reached desktop, states not activated, and under the error code box mentioned something about this key has been blocked or some such. Did i miss something? If you are doing clean install then it won’t work as wimdows10 doesn’t seem to accept windows 7 or 8 key.
The only way is to get reinstalled windows 8 and check it’s activated and then do upgrade to windows Note Windows needs installed with a Microsoft Account and activated.
The tool gives you the option to update this PC or to make recovery media… Also I signed in with the Microsoft Account during Installation of …. There is no option to select the partition to install Windows 10 on via the upgrade it upgrades your existing Windows partition. As I Had problems with HDD on my Dell XPS LX windows 7 home premium OA I have done clean install of you windows 10 build which is activated now While trying to update to following the above instruction USB created and updates are installed windows 10 setup asks me to enter a product key I have tried the one you gave for windows 10 build … and original windows 7 home premium OA but none of those product keys worked.
I assume this is my OEM Win10 key? Will this key differ from my original Win8 key? How does this differ to using your clean install methods? Do I have the option of changing my motherboard while using the same key? I was planning to salvage most of the hardware into a new case for some upgrades, including a new motherboard. I’m still unsure of whether I can re-use my OEM key on a new motherboard. For Windows 8 and Windows 8. You just couldn’t change the language within Windows using a Language Pack i.
The Single Language Edition is silly in my opinion and I was hoping Microsoft would drop it and merge it with the main Edition unfortunately they didn’t. Having 2 Language Editions of English is also silly as they are the same language. Likely its the same with Windows 10 as there are also Windows 10 generic installation keys. I haven’t tested a cross-single language upgrade however this might give product activation issues… I don’t think it will but don’t have a Single Language OEM license not upgraded to test with.
The easiest way to distinguish if you are using proper English is to right click a blank area on the Desktop. If the context menu has personalise spelt correctly with a “s” you are fortunate enough to have English UK installed. On the other hand if it says personalize and is spelt incorrectly with a “z” you have the misfortune of having English US installed. You don’t have a Windows 10 key as the new activation mechanism is keyless… and although Windows 10 installation media will ask for a product key it won’t accept Windows 8 keys.
You must initially upgrade, when you upgrade your systems hardware profile is submitted to a Microsoft Product Activation server and is classified as a Windows 10 Device. Berlarc Advisor will report a generic product key which has no value. Once a Device has became a Windows 10 Device, Windows 10 may be clean reinstalled by skipping all prompts for the product key and will automatically reactive when online provided the correct Edition is selected.
Failure to initially upgrade will mean that your device is not registered as a Windows 10 Device and you will experience product activation issues. This guide stresses this in great detail but as you have already upgraded its not a concern for you. If you have upgraded then your recovery media created with Alienware Respawn will be for the factory image Windows 8 and not for Windows Its possible however to clean reinstall, then install all the drivers and software you want and make a pseudo factory image.
The free version of Dell Backup and Recovery Alienware Respawn is a little limited and if Microsoft continues to provide up to date installation media, there becomes little use in a factory image. Windows 10’s activation mechanism scans the device, if it recognises the hardware profile motherboard it will reactivate, if it doesn’t it won’t activate and prompt you to buy Windows Thank you so much for your reply!
Turns out mine came shipped with the US edition, and I’m from Malaysia. So in a way, it is ‘disconnecting’ the ‘relationship’ of my hardware and Windows 10 right? Or just downright no way, I have to stick with my Alienware motherboard? It will remain a Windows 10 Single Language device even if you revert back to Windows 8. There is however an indirect way of getting the free upgrade… The Windows Insider Build Essentially you have to install it and activate it by the end of the month as it expires.
You can then use it to get Windows 10 Pro for free which won’t expire. Just to make sure that I understand. I got through a clean Insider Build and got it activated to Windows Now I am not under any time restraint to get to Windows 10 Pro by the end of the month? I can upgrade to it at anytime? The Windows 10 Pro. Hi guys, Got my activated 24hrs ago. However after upgrade it from desktop.. Reformat hardisk moment ago , reinstall Vista, did via boot as what i did previously, but this time around, no luck…tried activate via command line…but it keep said failed to activate, was online.
Reboot and Reinstall This time I switch off the wifi and proceed with installation til full completion. By doing so I found out that the installation wont ask me to login to my existing account. After all was completed, I proceed with the command prompt. Key in the key. Amazingly it was activated! Now I proceed with the upgrading. Hopefully it all goes well and I am able to upgrade it to Pro version.
Finger cross. Almost textbook like updated. On Dell Inspiron While installing the upgrade, there was a power failure and on reboot, the Win was restored. Windows 10 had to be redownloaded. I do the install of win and activate and after this clean install wiht last windows 10 iso from microsoft.
This work like you say all activate. But if i see the licence key the two computer have now the same key???? Windows 10 uses device based activation. Key finder programs will find a generic key which is the same on all computers and hence of limited use. BUT while installing i deleted oem recovery and diagnostic drive …now how to recover that drive.. If you haven’t made Windows 8. However you have the Windows 10 TH2. You can also follow the guide to Download a Windows 8. On modern hardware F12 preboot Diagnostics will still work fine without the diagnostics partition.
To restore factory settings for that i would get into trouble getting oem recovery drive. Hey, really good tutorial. But I’m having serious issues with it. At first, my pc was an edition with Windows 8. My PC had serious adware issues so I decided to perform a clean install of Windows 8.
BUT, at the moment when I boot the USB with the windows 10 setup that I downloaded Windows 10 Single Languange — x64 , delete the partitions my pc is empty now and has no operating system and finish copying the files and “installing updates”, the setup just restarts to the same initial point and there is no path for continuing with Windows 10 installation, and when that happens for the second or third time, just launches blue screen with the following message and stays there for hours, the 0 part never moves forward: “Your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart.
We’re just collecting some error info, and then we’ll restart for you. I’d would be really thankful if you can help me with this, also I excuse myself if there is any bad grammar spell, I don’t speak english that well.
What model of Dell is this? Have you ran the full F12 preboot diagnostics? I received a memory error pop up box during install after entering username step, but I was able to continue and was able to also install TH2 and I now have an activated win 10 pc shows as activated in system.
Only problem is that it appears corrupted as when I try to install new programs ie chrome, Firefox, and others they seem to install ok but won’t actually open? I’ve tried running as administrator and tried googling this problem but can’t find any fix. All the other parts of Windows 10 work ok ie start bar, updates, Explorer, edge but I just can’t seem to run any new programs that I download and install? I tried the other method also rweverything which also does seem to install and run on the PC, but crashed after i used it?
Not sure now whether im actually win 10 activated although when i go to system it says i have Windows 10 Pro, and it says activated down the bottom? Dear Philipyip, after following successfully your guide “xp to win10 th2 free upgrade” I tried to clean install win10 following your guide but, after choosing the partition, I receive the error “Windows setup could not reinizialice the deployment engine.
To install windows, restart the installation” so now I don’t know how to continue. Could you please help me? Thank you in advance! Ok it seems to be some sort of formatting issue. I did not deleted the unuseful partitions… maybe is the problem? If I use diskpart, will I loose the free th2 upgrade? Thank you. No the device is registered with a Microsoft Product Activation server and will automatically reactivate online when you clean install Windows 10 Pro. Looking at that systems Service Tag it came with Windows 8.
You won’t be able to Download a. You can either Download the Windows 10 RS1. Or the Windows 8. Before carring out an OS Clean Installation follow the video here and run the F12 preboot diagnostics:. The Single Language Edition does not let you change the Language of your Windows Install once a Windows Installation is up and running but doesn’t give any restrictions of language when performing a Clean Installation… An Upgrade Install from one Language to another will not work with the Single Language Edition but will work with the other Editions.
Once this is done you can use the RS1. Therefore the likes of ” and will be swapped so it depends if you look at your keyboard when you type or whether you type by touch how much an annoyance this will be.
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There is no need to check whether the. Moreover because the. For those that went for direct Download links the. Rufus does not need to be installed and can be run directly by double clicking on the application.
The order that you use Rufus is important failure to perform the steps in the order listed may lead to an incorrectly created Bootable USB. The rest of this guide will take you through “A Clean Installation” which is the best way to install Windows without any performance losses. A Clean Installation will result in the loss of data. For more information see Backing up your files. If you want to backup your entire previous Windows Installation as system image see my guide Backing up your Windows Installation using Macrium Reflect.
If you are wanting to sell your computer on 2nd hand or are suffering from a nasty Malware infection you should WIPE your system drive. Power down your computer. Select, Language this is locked to the. In this example I select proper English…. This is not recommended in most cases. If you are installing Windows 10 for the first time only i.
After inputting the Product Key the correct Edition of Windows 10 will be installed. To save time simply select “I don’t have a Product Key”.
To Clean Reinstall select Custom. I never recommend Upgrade installs. In the next screen you should be shown your drive s. It is advised to delete all partitions on the drive. This lists the single internal SSD as Drive 0. The drive has an old Windows 10 install. In most cases you will have a single Drive 0. Select the top partition, then select delete and then select OK at the warning. Repeat this for all partitions one by one until your system looks like this:.
If you have multiple drive s you will see Drive 0, Drive 1 and Drive 2…. Obviously don’t delete partitions on Drives you wish to remain as Data Drives. Windows will begin to install and depending on your hardware may take some time to go through all the steps:. Note if you are going to sell or hand down your Windows 10 Device, you can force shut it down here and remove the Windows 10 Installation USB…. The new owner can continue with the setup.
Select your wireless network:. Alternatively skip this step and sign in with a local account recommended if you want to make a pseudo -Factory image with Dell Backup and Recovery without your Microsoft Account login details.
A Local Account can later be converted to a Microsoft Account:. Windows 10 has many, many drivers inbuilt particularly for Intel hardware. For drivers Windows 10 doesn’t have inbuilt it often obtains them automatically via Windows Update. Let me give an example. You can see that without doing anything after a few minutes all the system drivers are automatically installed… Pretty impressive!!! One of the most common ones is the Intel Management Engine Interface driver that Windows 10 installs is old version To check the version right click the start button and then left click Device Manager.
Then select properties. In the dialogue box left click the driver tab. Check the version:. You then want to launch the. There have also been Touchpad issues reported since the release of Windows 8 which seem to carry through onto Windows This can be resolved by a forced installation of one of the newer drivers via the Device Manager follow my guide Dell Touchpad Drivers.
Some have been reporting some instability with inbuilt wireless card drivers. See my guide Dell Wireless Cards. You may wish to visit the Downloads. If your system is new Dell may have some more up to date Windows 10 64 Bit drivers which may be installed. Check your Windows Edition at the top and ensure that Windows is activated to the bottom. Note the Product ID may change slightly from the original install but Windows should be activated….
If Windows isn’t activated leave it 2 hours as the Activation Servers may be swamped and try again. If you still aren’t activated follow the instructions in Windows 10 Home to Pro but use your own key instead of the generic Pro Product Key. For those who have made their system a Windows 10 Pro Device e. To do this right click start and select system:. You will now reach the Windows 10 Pro Version Desktop.
Right click the Start button and select System:. After download and installation when win10 start at screen with window and welcome the pc always reboot. Some hint? Intel GM Graphics Controller, a few moment before screen with window there is another screen light magenta then window screen then reboot. Try without the docking station I have the same configuration and it works. I haven’t tested my docking station out with Windows 10 yet.
I have dell laptop, recently upgraded windows 10 and its in reboot loop. Unfortunately I don’t have windows 8 recovery disk also by default dell doesn’t provide the product key. Can I download windows 10 and do clean install? Does it prompt for product key. Any suggestions. Also any links to download the recovery disk. Since I’m out of warranty dell asking me 30 pounds for recovery disc. Thanks Philip the article is useful and I’m able to get my product key using RW.
Be careful with the order you do things in Rufus follow the order listed as settings sometimes revert. I tried steps and it worked like charm, I’m back windows 8.
Many Thanks. Will try windows 10 upgrade now after disabling the NVidia GeForce card. Had an enter cd key screen on install, skipped this then reached desktop, states not activated, and under the error code box mentioned something about this key has been blocked or some such. Did i miss something?
If you are doing clean install then it won’t work as wimdows10 doesn’t seem to accept windows 7 or 8 key. The only way is to get reinstalled windows 8 and check it’s activated and then do upgrade to windows Note Windows needs installed with a Microsoft Account and activated. The tool gives you the option to update this PC or to make recovery media… Also I signed in with the Microsoft Account during Installation of ….
There is no option to select the partition to install Windows 10 on via the upgrade it upgrades your existing Windows partition. As I Had problems with HDD on my Dell XPS LX windows 7 home premium OA I have done clean install of you windows 10 build which is activated now While trying to update to following the above instruction USB created and updates are installed windows 10 setup asks me to enter a product key I have tried the one you gave for windows 10 build … and original windows 7 home premium OA but none of those product keys worked.
I assume this is my OEM Win10 key? Will this key differ from my original Win8 key? How does this differ to using your clean install methods? Do I have the option of changing my motherboard while using the same key?
I was planning to salvage most of the hardware into a new case for some upgrades, including a new motherboard. I’m still unsure of whether I can re-use my OEM key on a new motherboard. For Windows 8 and Windows 8. You just couldn’t change the language within Windows using a Language Pack i. The Single Language Edition is silly in my opinion and I was hoping Microsoft would drop it and merge it with the main Edition unfortunately they didn’t. Having 2 Language Editions of English is also silly as they are the same language.
Likely its the same with Windows 10 as there are also Windows 10 generic installation keys. I haven’t tested a cross-single language upgrade however this might give product activation issues… I don’t think it will but don’t have a Single Language OEM license not upgraded to test with.
The easiest way to distinguish if you are using proper English is to right click a blank area on the Desktop. If the context menu has personalise spelt correctly with a “s” you are fortunate enough to have English UK installed. On the other hand if it says personalize and is spelt incorrectly with a “z” you have the misfortune of having English US installed. You don’t have a Windows 10 key as the new activation mechanism is keyless… and although Windows 10 installation media will ask for a product key it won’t accept Windows 8 keys.
You must initially upgrade, when you upgrade your systems hardware profile is submitted to a Microsoft Product Activation server and is classified as a Windows 10 Device. Berlarc Advisor will report a generic product key which has no value. Once a Device has became a Windows 10 Device, Windows 10 may be clean reinstalled by skipping all prompts for the product key and will automatically reactive when online provided the correct Edition is selected.
Failure to initially upgrade will mean that your device is not registered as a Windows 10 Device and you will experience product activation issues. This guide stresses this in great detail but as you have already upgraded its not a concern for you. If you have upgraded then your recovery media created with Alienware Respawn will be for the factory image Windows 8 and not for Windows Its possible however to clean reinstall, then install all the drivers and software you want and make a pseudo factory image.
The free version of Dell Backup and Recovery Alienware Respawn is a little limited and if Microsoft continues to provide up to date installation media, there becomes little use in a factory image. Windows 10’s activation mechanism scans the device, if it recognises the hardware profile motherboard it will reactivate, if it doesn’t it won’t activate and prompt you to buy Windows Thank you so much for your reply!
Turns out mine came shipped with the US edition, and I’m from Malaysia. So in a way, it is ‘disconnecting’ the ‘relationship’ of my hardware and Windows 10 right? Or just downright no way, I have to stick with my Alienware motherboard? It will remain a Windows 10 Single Language device even if you revert back to Windows 8. There is however an indirect way of getting the free upgrade… The Windows Insider Build Essentially you have to install it and activate it by the end of the month as it expires.
You can then use it to get Windows 10 Pro for free which won’t expire. Just to make sure that I understand. I got through a clean Insider Build and got it activated to Windows Now I am not under any time restraint to get to Windows 10 Pro by the end of the month?
I can upgrade to it at anytime? The Windows 10 Pro. Hi guys, Got my activated 24hrs ago. However after upgrade it from desktop.. Reformat hardisk moment ago , reinstall Vista, did via boot as what i did previously, but this time around, no luck…tried activate via command line…but it keep said failed to activate, was online. Reboot and Reinstall This time I switch off the wifi and proceed with installation til full completion.
By doing so I found out that the installation wont ask me to login to my existing account. After all was completed, I proceed with the command prompt. Key in the key. Amazingly it was activated! Now I proceed with the upgrading. Hopefully it all goes well and I am able to upgrade it to Pro version. Finger cross. Almost textbook like updated. On Dell Inspiron While installing the upgrade, there was a power failure and on reboot, the Win was restored.
Windows 10 had to be redownloaded. I do the install of win and activate and after this clean install wiht last windows 10 iso from microsoft. This work like you say all activate. But if i see the licence key the two computer have now the same key???? Windows 10 uses device based activation. Key finder programs will find a generic key which is the same on all computers and hence of limited use.
BUT while installing i deleted oem recovery and diagnostic drive …now how to recover that drive.. If you haven’t made Windows 8. However you have the Windows 10 TH2.
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