I have an older Compaq laptop that I occasionally use. It's running windows 7. I want to upgrade to Windows 10 but it won't let me. It tells me that the update process isn't running yet it should be. I've tried windows diagnostic tool but even that shows that it can't run and that there is an error somewhere but it doesn't say where the error lies. Anyone have any clues as to why this is happening?
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I have an older Compaq laptop that I occasionally use. It's running windows 7. I want to upgrade to Windows 10 but it won't let me. It tells me that the update process isn't running yet it should be. I've tried windows diagnostic tool but even that shows that it can't run and that there is an error somewhere but it doesn't say where the error lies. Anyone have any clues as to why this is happening? - flash3-21
You could take a look inside your C:\Windows\WindowsUpdate.log and look for error messages.
If you're experiencing scans for updates that seemingly never end, KB3172605, the July 2016 update rollup, may help. There's more information about that patch here: http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000100/thread/259662508
shareWell I had written out a fairly long reply to you telling the messages that I was getting and all of a sudden it started to work. Of course I've been screwing around with this for a couple of weeks now and as soon as I asked for help...TaDa! For some reason my updating service wasn't running. still don't know why but now I'm updating it to 10.
Thanks for the replies.
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Thanks for the replies. - flash3-21
You're welcome. Glad you got the problem resolved.
When i updated to Windows 10 on Dec 1st 2015 i used the 'media creation tool' which is on Microsoft's website here...
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10/
with that you can download the ISO file which you can then use in the future for clean installations of Windows 10 when you burn that to a DVD disc or use http://goo.gl/Yo5Y1J (i used 'The easy way') for creating a bootable USB drive. NOTE: don't use the Microsoft tool to create a bootable USB as it does not work. just use the Microsoft tool and download the Windows 10 ISO and then use that Rufus program to create your bootable USB drive which it then loads the .ISO file you downloaded using Microsoft's tool and then creates your bootable USB device. just make sure you use at least a 4GB memory card if you go the USB route instead of burning it to a DVD.
with all of that said... i have had some issues with Windows 10 since i first used it but i sorted them out. overall it's been stable for me and at the moment i got no issues with Windows 10.
next bigger update for the Windows 10 is coming early next month from what everyone says. i think after this is released they will update the ISO on Microsoft's site to reflect that instead of the Nov 2015 update that it's currently using.
current stable release of Windows 10 is build 10586.494 ; but early next month it will likely be updated to 14393.3 (or so)...
It's becoming apparent that build 14393 is the RTM build for the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, meaning that it's the build that non-Insiders will get on August 2.
with all of that said... let us know how Windows 10 works for you ;)
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Well I updated both my laptop and desktop and it was pretty uneventful. Just a couple of little things, like it not turning on my wireless adapter during start up. Pretty minor but other than that it doesn't seem much different than 7.
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Is there not a way for you to enable your network adapter at startup? Is there a program you use as a frontend for the adapter, which you run?
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Well I updated both my laptop and desktop and it was pretty uneventful. Just a couple of little things, like it not turning on my wireless adapter during start up. Pretty minor but other than that it doesn't seem much different than 7.
Yeah, on the surface it's similar to Windows 7, which i think is a good thing as drastic change from that would be a bad thing (i.e. when Windows 8 was released as it's interface was horrible for someone wanting to use their computer which pretty much made everyone dis it even though interface aside it was a slight improvement over Windows 7 but no one cared because of it's interface which made Windows 7 easily better overall), but i think it's more of the little things and the under the hood stuff that make it better.
just to mention one of the little things i like is Task Manager is more detailed in Windows 10 vs Windows 7 (probably a non-issue for most people though) and it's a bit quicker to search for things being the search bar is already there and can access certain things a bit quicker to by right clicking the start icon which gives quick access to some important stuff in Windows.
also, some hardware i recently installed is slightly better with Windows 10 simply because it does not require me to install any drivers for it to work where as with Windows 7 i am pretty sure it does (i just install the hardware and boot up the PC and it just worked). it's a Vantec USB 3.0 PCI-E controller card (has two USB 3.0 ports on the back of case along with support for those adapters for front USB 3.0 ports if i get additional hardware in the future) which adds USB 3.0 support to my computer which only has USB 2.0 onboard but i got that because i also got one of those hard drive docks where you can connect 2.5/3.5 hard drives (basically laptop or regular computer hard drives) to it and it's USB 3.0 speed and without me getting the USB 3.0 card i would be limited to 30MB/s (30MB/s is max speed of USB 2.0) where as now it will max out my hard drives as i think the card is capable of 300MB/s or so but obviously those speeds won't be reached with a hard drive simply because they just cannot transfer data that fast (so now the hard drive is the bottleneck instead of the USB port) but on my older 250GB hard drive (which i had since 2006) i am usually around 40-60MB/s (typically around 50MB/s) but with a larger hard drive (the dock supports up to 8TB) without being too full etc should go over 100MB/s. i got both (the USB 3.0 card and the hard drive dock) for $35 on newegg's website. it's great to have external support of hard drives now and frees up some space inside my computer case which the hard drive slots were full. ill stop babbling now.
but anyways... i assume your on build 14393.10 (of Windows 10) ? ; that had some interface changes to the start thing vs how it used to be prior to Aug 2nd with build 10586.xxx) which is a improvement there. also Edge getting extension support is a solid upgrade for Windows 10 as that's one of the key areas that made Edge noticeably behind Chrome/Firefox etc.
with all of that said.... considering Windows 10 costs $0.00 it better than Windows 7 but if i had to shell out $100-200 for it and already had Windows 7, it's not worth it overall. but then again pretty much no OS is worth that much when what you already got tends to 'just work'. note... i got Windows 10 x64 Pro because i put Windows 7 x64 Pro on it (which is free if you know what to do) before i upgraded so i could get the more expensive version of Windows 10 instead of the basic version.
also, like Coldheart mentioned... there is probably a fairly simple fix i would imagine for your wireless issue. i just don't mess with wireless much myself as all of my hardware is basically a wired connection which runs through a older Wireless-G router (Asus WL-520GU running Tomato firmware) i have had for years now and while it's wireless is nothing fancy it's good enough for what little i do use the wireless on occasionally with say a cell phone. basically there is no real need for me to upgrade unless i really needed the additional speed that Wireless-N etc offers.
just some thoughts ;)
p.s. also, it might not be a bad idea to clean install Windows 10 in the future. but something you can do now is run 'disk cleanup' and once it scans your C drive click the 'clean up system files' and my guess is it will likely be able to free up a fair amount of space. even if it does not, it's a good idea to run that once in a great while as stuff slowly builds up over time that's just wasting hard drive space. like if you had a Windows 7 computer for years i am almost sure you will get back several GB of space as i ran that on my sisters Windows 7 laptop a not all that long ago and it freed up something around 25GB if i recall correctly.
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