If you have a genuine windows, then you can choose to upgrade your old version of windows to the new Windows 10.
Of course if you don't want, no need to worry. Suppose if you want to access windows apps - which is by the way not possible with windows 7. So you can upgrade to windows 10 and get all your favourite app. Just follow these steps..
If you are a genuine windows user and connected to internet, you will automatically get a windows 10 alert on your right side of the taskbar with windows 10 symbol.
If you click it, you will be asked to reserve your upgrade which is completely free.
Once reservation is confirmed, when it is available it will ask your permission to download windows 10.
Once you start the download you needn't wait for the download to complete fully. If you are only half done, it is no problem closing your computer. The download will automatically start each time you turn on your computer and continues to downloading process.
You can check your download progress by going to
Control Panel - system and security - windows update (in windows 7)
Once the download is finished, you will get the notification.
When you click the upgrade, it will automatically starts to upgrade. It may take a while, so you need to be calm
But here is where I got stuck, and failed to update.
When the download is finished, I couldn't make the windows 10 update. It showed the error code like below,
I tried to do the whole process by again downloading the 2 GB update. It failed twice and wasted me a lot of time.
Solution:
I surfed internet and found that there is an other way of downloading the same update file. But now, you can install it any time using a media creation tool.
You can download the media creation tool from windows website
Now, do the same download using this media creation tool - but you need to be careful, because it is one time download. You cannot close your pc in the middle of download as you did in the previous method. [If there is no power connection in the middle, just use Hibernation mode in your computer].
Now do the same upgrade procedure, once the download finished. But now, you will able to run the installation procedure.
You need to wait for the installation procedure to finish. [ Now, you don't need to worry about power supply anything.. Even the installation interrupted, it will continue without any error next time you turn on your pc.
And follow the procedure as follows in your installation.
When you finished all these steps, you will have your new windows 10 upgrade.
Note: If you are not comfortable with windows 10, you can at any time, restore your old windows. So, you can give it a try to windows 10.
Of course if you don't want, no need to worry. Suppose if you want to access windows apps - which is by the way not possible with windows 7. So you can upgrade to windows 10 and get all your favourite app. Just follow these steps..
If you are a genuine windows user and connected to internet, you will automatically get a windows 10 alert on your right side of the taskbar with windows 10 symbol.
If you click it, you will be asked to reserve your upgrade which is completely free.
Once reservation is confirmed, when it is available it will ask your permission to download windows 10.
Once you start the download you needn't wait for the download to complete fully. If you are only half done, it is no problem closing your computer. The download will automatically start each time you turn on your computer and continues to downloading process.
You can check your download progress by going to
Control Panel - system and security - windows update (in windows 7)
Once the download is finished, you will get the notification.
When you click the upgrade, it will automatically starts to upgrade. It may take a while, so you need to be calm
But here is where I got stuck, and failed to update.
When the download is finished, I couldn't make the windows 10 update. It showed the error code like below,
I tried to do the whole process by again downloading the 2 GB update. It failed twice and wasted me a lot of time.
Solution:
I surfed internet and found that there is an other way of downloading the same update file. But now, you can install it any time using a media creation tool.
You can download the media creation tool from windows website
Now, do the same download using this media creation tool - but you need to be careful, because it is one time download. You cannot close your pc in the middle of download as you did in the previous method. [If there is no power connection in the middle, just use Hibernation mode in your computer].
Now do the same upgrade procedure, once the download finished. But now, you will able to run the installation procedure.
You need to wait for the installation procedure to finish. [ Now, you don't need to worry about power supply anything.. Even the installation interrupted, it will continue without any error next time you turn on your pc.
And follow the procedure as follows in your installation.
When you finished all these steps, you will have your new windows 10 upgrade.
Note: If you are not comfortable with windows 10, you can at any time, restore your old windows. So, you can give it a try to windows 10.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Let everyone know what you think about this