If you have Windows 7 or 8 installed you can upgrade for free. Find the
gatherosstate.exe file on the Windows 10 disc or ISO. Copy it to the desktop
and run it. Copy the genuineticket file it creates somewhere off the computer.
Now you can erase the installed Windows and do a clean install of 10. It's easy
to find where to copy the genuineticket file to make 10 self activate.
Windows 10 will also directly accept many retail and OEM key codes for 7 and 8.
One recently introduced *gotcha* is starting with build 1607 of Windows 10,
it's been deprecating older methods of driver signing, especially for video
drivers. What happens is newer builds will allow the installer to run but will
quietly block the driver files from installing. If you try to manually install
the extracted files with Device Manager it will either lie to you with a claim
of being unable to find the file it just found, or will BSOD.
As of build 1809 there's a workaround. Install Build 1511 and all the drivers,
then upgrade to any build from 1607 through 1809. That will allow the
"insecure" drivers to stay. No word on if the new major build to be released
later this year will still do that.
There's a recently introduced bug in Windows 10 with some laptops. When
returning from shutting off the display, sleeping, or hibernating, the screen
is solid black except for the mouse pointer. The latest cumulative update for
build 1809 addresses *some* of those issues but if you have an older laptop
that shipped with Vista or 7 which has the black screen bug with build 1607 or
later it may never get fixed. The workaround is to completely disable display
off, sleep, and hibernate. I fixed up a Compaq NC8430 (shipped with 32bit Win7,
I dropped in 4 gig, a 320 gig HD, and a Core 2 Duo to install Win 10 x64) that
has this issue, along with having to do the 1511 then 1809 upgrade to get a
proper video driver for the ATi Mobility Radeon X1600.
Dunno why Microsoft cannot stop re-breaking things in Windows 10 after they've
fixed them. The RTM release had major problems with a large number of laptop
WiFi adapters. Took them almost a year to put out a fix, which they had to make
available for direct download both for RTM and the first update build. Then
Microsoft proceeded to re-break WiFi several more times until they seem to have
decide to quit mucking about and leave it alone.
On Saturday, March 23, 2019, 2:25:13 PM MDT, Chris Albertson
<albertson.ch...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 12:56 PM andy pugh <bodge...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 at 19:45, Chris Albertson <albertson.ch...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Actually, Fusion already runs on a Linux machine, Make a VM with Window
> 10
> > in the Linux computer then put Fusion on the VM.
>
> But how much does a Windows 10 Licence cost? It seems to be around
> £189 (for a full retail rathe than OEM version)
>
You can run Windows 10 for free and you don't need to pirate the software.
It's
all above board. Yuo can install Windows 10 from the Microsoft website.
then simply never "activate" it. The only real difference between an
activated
and unactivated Wondows 10 is cosmetic. The system will now and then ask
you to
activate it. But it continues to run jst fine. Yuo even get all the
software
security and feature updates I even have some cloud stoarage
in Microft's system for One Note and some other data.
Microsoft's policies have changed qute a lot with their new CEO.
If you are willing to be slightly devious, Microsoft will give you a free
activated
copy of Windows 10 if you download it from their "accessibilty" web site.
They make Win 10 acailable to those who are disabled but do not ask for
proof or even
ask if you are in fact disabled. So you get it with out having to enter
false information.
Then of cousre you can be dishonest and us any of the ba-zillian cracked
copies of Windows on the web. But this is not legal even if it is common.
Your best bet is simply to not activate. Microsoft is fine with this, but
they will nag you forever.
> --
> atp
> "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is
> designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and
> lunatics."
> — George Fitch, Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, 1916
>
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