[Leica] Windows 10

[John McMaster]

Once you are installing choose advanced install, you can then easily turn
off most of Microsoft's spying

Things like:

'Personalise your speech, typing and inking input by sending contacts and
calendar details, along with other associated input data to Microsoft'

'Let apps use your advertising ID for experiences across apps'

john

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Your particular device may have a compatibility issue. To check the status,
click on the Windows 10 reservation icon in your system tray - it looks like
a white Windows logo - to open up the reservation.
Inside of this, there is a hamburger menu icon on the top left. Click this
to expand the menu, then open the "Check your PC" option. This will display
a compatibility report which you should verify is ready to go before
proceeding. You may have to wait for device driver updates from your
manufacturer before the system is Windows 10 ready.

If all looks good, AND you have backed up your computer, you can update
without waiting for the Windows reservation.

Microsoft has a page up with the tools to download and create a bootable USB
drive or ISO, and you can find it here:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10?OCID=WIP_r_Win10_
Body_AddPC

Go there, and download the tool. Run the tool, and it should give you the
option to either upgrade the PC you are on now, or download the files to a
USB or ISO. I've not had any luck with the "upgrade this PC" 
option, so I had to do the download. I downloaded it to a USB drive.

Then, instead of booting from the USB drive, simply navigate to it in
Windows Explorer and run setup.exe from there to initiate the upgrade
process. It takes a few minutes to get ready, then it will prompt you asking
what you would like to keep on your PC, and then it does the upgrade. This
is only meant to be used from a genuine copy of Windows, and it should
activate correctly after.

Jay

On 7/31/2015 8:53 PM, Jeffery Smith wrote:
> Are any of you frustrated by the hurdles required to get Windows 10? It
doesn't appear that my Lenovo touchscreen notebook has the secret handshake
to be eligible.
>
> Sent from my iPad