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Happy birthday!F***Windows 10 problems
10 years ago
Night before last, I had gotten Windows 10 installed on my laptop with no issues, loved it, installed my usual stuffs and decided that I wanted to get it installed and ready to go on my desktop so I could stream yesterday morning... well things went to hell (since I did not stream yesterday norning that is a given)
I started the install on my desktop, it was chugging away till it hit %40 and then... black screen, nothing worked, so I put in my USB drive with Windows 10 on it and flatten the computer... everything seemed to go ok, except I don't have it activated and I have no key... also my Windows 8 that came with my desktop had no disc... or a key ether.
I call up Microsoft and explain my situation to THREE different people, first two were just like "SOOLDUDE, buy Windows 10 or enjoy no OS, it's your fault" last person said it was an issue on their end and it should go away in 1-2days, and if it does not then I am to call back, so my desktop is working for now, but who knows how long before it gets locked out or something.
Anyhoo, what ever... I go to my laptop cause I want to watch
daemon-wolf stream and boom... Windows 10 locks up and does not want to boot or when it does it freezes and crashes after awhile.... so I give up after awhile and decided to try and stream, failed horribbly, not because I had issues with my desktop, but I kept passing out.
Took a nap and am now reinstalling Windows 7 on my laptop (I bought that so I have a CD and key... wth do computer makers do this? (EVERY SYSTEM SHOULD AT LEAST HAVE A KEY) and gonna try to upgrade to Windows 10 again... this is only a few hours before I have to go to my doctors appointment which is at 9:30am
Just a horrible amount of luck, just as well I guess, something always happens near my birthday (Aug 2nd... on a Sunday? really?) yup no cake, parties, gifts or what ever, just agonoy making me wish I was not born... and I still have 4 commissions to get done or I am gonna be broke again really soon... thanks a lot life, I would rather a Surface pro 3 or a PS4 or just a game or something, you can keep that other S*** to your self.
Anyhoo, that is it, bitching in a journal again I know (all from the comfort of my Andriod tablet no less) but this is important for peole who are waiting on art.
Thanks for reading and hope your having a better week then me.
I started the install on my desktop, it was chugging away till it hit %40 and then... black screen, nothing worked, so I put in my USB drive with Windows 10 on it and flatten the computer... everything seemed to go ok, except I don't have it activated and I have no key... also my Windows 8 that came with my desktop had no disc... or a key ether.
I call up Microsoft and explain my situation to THREE different people, first two were just like "SOOLDUDE, buy Windows 10 or enjoy no OS, it's your fault" last person said it was an issue on their end and it should go away in 1-2days, and if it does not then I am to call back, so my desktop is working for now, but who knows how long before it gets locked out or something.
Anyhoo, what ever... I go to my laptop cause I want to watch
daemon-wolf stream and boom... Windows 10 locks up and does not want to boot or when it does it freezes and crashes after awhile.... so I give up after awhile and decided to try and stream, failed horribbly, not because I had issues with my desktop, but I kept passing out.Took a nap and am now reinstalling Windows 7 on my laptop (I bought that so I have a CD and key... wth do computer makers do this? (EVERY SYSTEM SHOULD AT LEAST HAVE A KEY) and gonna try to upgrade to Windows 10 again... this is only a few hours before I have to go to my doctors appointment which is at 9:30am
Just a horrible amount of luck, just as well I guess, something always happens near my birthday (Aug 2nd... on a Sunday? really?) yup no cake, parties, gifts or what ever, just agonoy making me wish I was not born... and I still have 4 commissions to get done or I am gonna be broke again really soon... thanks a lot life, I would rather a Surface pro 3 or a PS4 or just a game or something, you can keep that other S*** to your self.
Anyhoo, that is it, bitching in a journal again I know (all from the comfort of my Andriod tablet no less) but this is important for peole who are waiting on art.
Thanks for reading and hope your having a better week then me.
Now, if you want that license from your computer to be transferred to Windows 10, you will have to install Windows 8 back on the computer, then upgrade it to Windows 10 through Windows Update or a bootable USB stick you can set up from their site.
Link for the Win10 download tool: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sof.....load/windows10
Now I realize it may be a bitch to reinstall windows 8 on your main machine and upgrade just for the license to transfer, but it's the only way that it will work without you needing to buy a new license. Also, make sure Windows 8 is activated before doing the upgrade.
Friend of mine is gonna see about getting me a key just in case Microsoft won't bloody help me,,,
I understood from this that when you bought your desktop, it came with Windows 8 pre-loaded. Is this correct?
If so, and if the desktop is a branded PC (like HP/Dell/Alienware etc), then the serial key for Windows 8 is embedded in the motherboard BIOS of your computer.
In this case, the store you bought your computer from wouldn't need to provide any recovery disc or license key; you might have had a recovery partition on the HDD when you bought the system, but whether or not you deleted it at some point in the past shouldn't matter.
Simply download an ISO of Windows 8 (download app here: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkID=317630), make a bootable USB from it, install Windows 8 using that bootable USB, activate it (skip any serial number prompts if you can, you can activate Windows after you install it and it'll find the key automatically), then upgrade to Windows 10.
Unfortunately with 10, you have to do a regular install first to register/activate with MS, then follow up with a clean install from a USB drive. You've already done step 1 so a clean could follow.
i only have 7 and 8 because they came with the machines they did, and many newer apps don't run as well on older os's.
if i live long enough to require newer hardware, it will most likely come with 10 or beyond. this i do not look forward to, as i did not look forward to 8 and have no love for it now.
i've only stuck with windows because apple just makes everything look cleaner by hiding everything, which i don't see as very useful, and there are other things about it i don't like. and the various family of unix decendents, i've just never been smart enough to install and get to run.
my small handful of applications i use all the time, do have unix(linix) ports that are stable and run just fine, so the only reason i haven't gone there, is the hassle for me of attempting to instal an alternative os.
i know what you're supposed to do, is create a bootable disk with your desired os's instaler and compressed files on it. and we should all have one for crash recovery too. but creating a bootable disk, in dos, was setting one command line switch. windows intercepts any attempt to do so with a lot of fancy chrome bullshit, that obscures, at least to me, however the hell any more, your supposed to do so.
which is why i don't have a recovery disk either, nor been able to instal an alternate os.
So they can make money. Microsoft made the decision to roll out a new OS every 3 years, and retire support for an OS after it was 3 versions old. They did this because XP worked too well. They weren't making enough money any more, because businesses (their main customers) weren't interested in upgrading their equipment. Their needs hadn't changed, and XP was still working fine for their business needs. So, MS decided to force obsolescence, so that businesses would have to upgrade.
That's an easier business-model than creating an improved product that retains features that customers like, gets rid of features that customers didn't like in the last version, and adds new, useful features all of which would make people actually want to buy the new product. 'Cause, yaknow, that'd just be crazy.