Windows 10 Upgrade Primer Tutorial
This coming Friday, 29th July 2016 marks the cut off day for free upgrades to Windows 10 from Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows Phone 8.1 or Windows 9 operating systems, as you can read about here. Why do this? Read more on that here. We definitely think this upgrade is one that is worth it, unlike the upgrades to Windows 8 or even 9, of a previous vintage. You will find with Windows 10, a way to go on a lot like the way you’ve gotten used to, or jump into another Windows app desktop world like, but better than, the one Windows 8 and 9 introduced. The upgrade concentrates on the operating system only, and tries to keep the rest of what you do as is, and tells you this in the last phases of operation in no uncertain terms.
The mechanics of the upgrade are that, if your PC is eligible, you’d have been notified, and that once you plump to do it (one of my students describes it as a “single click job”), and as with all upgrades it is good to do a backup before you start, the upgrade process will tell you if you have enough disk space and other resources, as well as offering a path back to your previous Windows should you be dissatisfied … and people have had a few issues. Have been directly involved in two and indirectly in one of these, all ultimately successful, and for one of them I received an error 0xc7700112 which wasn’t covered in that previous link but which I consulted many web pages like this and though the more detailed advice made no difference something in one of them tweaked me towards the idea that you should …
Turn off Virus detection, in all its forms, while running the upgrade to Windows 10
… and probably was warned of this, somewhere, ahead of time, but forgot it along the way. Please don’t do what I did on this one, but the remedy here for error 0xc7700112 was to use the link …
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
… method of upgrade, so long as you have a lot of disk space available. A good Frequently Asked Question about Windows 10 Upgrade could set you right about some other issues you think you may have.
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