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[renluop]

I'm taking the plunge mainly because I've had problems that need a reinstallation of 7, and those same problems seem to be preventing an In-place upgrade.

Two things I ask is how long the download should take on my ADSL2+ connection @ 8300 kbps sync (its been telling me download is starting sine 15:45), and where is the download directed to. Normal downloads go to Downloads folder, but i see nothing anywhere, bar Task Manager that tells me the download is running.

[William Grimsley]

Hi renluop,

A 8.3 Mbps download speed will give you a download speed of 1.0 MB/s so you need to divide the Windows 7 download file size by 1.0 and that will tell you how many seconds it will take to download.

[renluop]

D/L will be lower than the sync I quoted. Maths is not strong in evening especially when it's going to be exhausting for a crinkly! Download is 6 GB. Still downloading now.......reasonable?

[licquorice]

Should take just under 2 hours assuming 8Mb/s download and assuming it is being served at maximum speed, it may not be.

[renluop]

Still going a few minutes ago, so looks like it's very slow, or something's amiss. I'll try again tomorrow. I think!

[Dray]

Probably better to leave it running overnight

[renluop]

Too late!

[renluop]

Weird! I abandonned  the download but left the computer on overnight, yet 10 was installed. Ideas? It all seems a bit confusing!

ATM in course of data backup with  File History. In 7 I could see a progress bar, but not in 10, so how will I know the backup is complete?

Interesting days ahead, me thinks! Hope not the Chinese meaning of "interesting"

[Chunkers]

I just upgraded my media server to Windows 10 from Windows 7 - with hindsight a clean re-install would have been better.  Two things to look out for which I encountered :

• Loss of Admin rights - after the upgrade none of the accounts on the PC had admin rights.  There is a workaround by booting into Safe mode and creating a local admin account.
• All of my files were made read-only, this came to light when i tried to run DSLstats actually and I couldn't understand why it wasn't working until I realised the whole directory it was in was read-only.  This was doubly bad as because I had no Admin rights, lol
  

Anyway I am sure a lot of these go completely smoothly. GL!

Chunks

[Bowdon]

I feel for your pain guys.

Something went wrong with my copy of Win10 on this computer. It now won't update the big updates that require a reboot. I'm waiting to take some backup's before I start experimenting lol

By the way, you might want to download Win10 as an ISO or on USB if you don't have a windows 10 cd. Then you'll always have a copy available.

[renluop]

At the moment in course of finding what's where, why's when and how's there, but I have at least done my first data backup and system image. I retained my admin rights too. I'll have too fathom the File History as to if it makes things easier or is something unnecessary, and get used to search.

If I have a system image, would I also need a ISO of a Win10 cd?

[renluop]

Looked at files this morning and found that there were a lot of duplicates with modified dates that are very recent, about when I changed to 10. I can't think how they came about.

Has anyone else had the same, and need they be kept?