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Well I went the upgrade route from Win 7 to 10 and so far so good
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Are you planning to follow up with a clean install?
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I'll see how things go if anything my laptop seems faster so I'll leave it a while I think - do you think a clean install is a good idea ?
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Several users have reported that they have less issues after a clean install. I also believe a clean install will use less disk space. However, if the upgrade works for you without issues, then stick with it by all means.
Note that after the upgrade you must check that Win 10 is activated before you attempt a clean install. This will register your machine with Microsoft as "eligible for Win 10", so the clean install will be activated without the need for an activation code.
After the upgrade you will also notice a large folder named something like "Windows.old" on your systems drive. It contains all the files that you will need if you decide to roll back to 7 or 8. When you are sure you're not going back to 7 or 8, it is safe to delete that folder to free up as much as 20GB disk space. Of course this folder will not exist after a clean install.
Good luck!
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I think the gremlins are starting already  my icons in the tray network,speaker etc... are in black and white and this site using Firefox looks completely different - also I'm forced to logon to my pc using my Microsoft account which I don't want to do
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Strange, not the icons part which can be from a wrong graphics card driver or needing an update, but the logon... I've never needed that when I installed W10, which was smooth and worked perfectly, except for the main software I use at work... (a specific industrial thing).
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I too disliked the option to log on with my MS account, but once I got used to it, it adds some nice functionality to the OS. For example: After I did my laptop, the desktop background picture suddenly matched the picture on my desktop machine. When you log on with your MS account, MS will upload some of your personal preferences and implement it for you on all your machines sharing that MS account. Some people may not like the fact that MS uploads their personal preferences, but I am not that paranoid about MS.
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pkfox wrote: also I'm forced to logon to my pc using my Microsoft account which I don't want to do
Go to Settings, Accounts. You should see a "Sign in with a local account instead" option.
But as others have pointed out, logging in with a MS account will make a lot of settings available across your different machines/devices if you also use that account to login, which has its advantages.
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pkfox wrote: I'm forced to logon to my pc using my Microsoft account
Someone wasn't paying attention during the update then! You were offered a choice! You can revert to the old account still but you'll then have to manually change the permissions on all your documents.
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pkfox wrote: do you think a clean install is a good idea ?
No, because then you have to buy win10 instead of getting the upgrade for free. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I don't think you do until the July deadline has passed
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You can get a free copy of Win10 without upgrading?
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You are supposed to be able to activate the 10586 build with a Win 7 or 8 activation code, but I have never tried that, so I cannot confirm that it will work. If you do a clean install AFTER the free upgrade, you do not need the activation code and you get it for free. Just make sure the upgrade is activated, before doing the clean install. I've gone that route on several machines of family members and it worked every time. The clean install was free in every case.
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Cornelius Henning wrote: You are supposed to be able to activate the 10586 build with a Win 7 or 8 activation code
Ah, I see. I was not aware of that.
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How do you check if it's activated ?
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Go to Control Panel => System. It will say near the bottom whether it's activated or not.
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It doesn't show anything - also my display is awful - I'm at the point of reverting back 
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I suspect it may have used your old display driver, and that driver is not playing well with 10. Before I give up, I would try to update the display driver. Do you know how to do that? With a clean install Win 10 should find and install the correct driver.
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"You'll be back." (in my best Arnold accent) 
/ravi
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I'm back already - the problems I was having reminded me of when I first installed Red Hat all those years ago
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Note that after you do the upgrade, grab a Windows 10 iso install and burn media. You can then do a clean install and it will register using your login account.
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Yesterday's XKCD.
Wonderful idea, especially for Kindle books (lousy justification).
![Badger | [badger,badger,badger,badger...]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/badger.gif)
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Good thing CP supports badgers natively, there doesn't seem to be a proper Unicode character for it.
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aaryan42 wrote: Good thing CP supports badgers natively, there doesn't seem to be a proper Unicode character for it.
My poor old eyes must be going.. they look like pandas to me
The whole thing's rigged to blow, touch those tanks and "boooom"!
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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They are obviously trans-species icons! They might even be dancing nuns (if you squint a lot while looking at them).
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Dancing nuns?? Let me go take another look..
The whole thing's rigged to blow, touch those tanks and "boooom"!
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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