Windows 7 and 8 users are now able to reserve their free copy of W10

alphanumeric · 01 Jun 2015

LittleJay said:

I use a local account on both W8.1 and W7, but I use Hotmail and am logged into that most of the time.

Local account may be why you got asked for an e-mail address. Just a guess at this point. You did the reservation via the taskbar icon right? Just want to confirm.

alphanumeric · 01 Jun 2015

paulsalter said:

Just noticed the option to check your PC, it says my graphics card isn't compatible and I will have problems with the display even though I can install win 10

hopefully this is just a driver that will come out in time for the release

Mine says "Your PC is Ready" "Your good to go".

LittleJay · 01 Jun 2015

alphanumeric said:

Local account may be why you got asked for an e-mail address. Just a guess at this point. You did the reservation via the taskbar icon right? Just want to confirm.

No. When I clicked on the windows icon on the task bar in W7 and checked it said everything was ready and I didn't need to do anything else. It was only on the W8.1 install that it asked me to reserve a copy.

This is from my W7 install.

Windows 7 and 8 users are now able to reserve their free copy of W10-capture.jpg

alphanumeric · 01 Jun 2015

LittleJay said:

No. When I clicked on the windows icon on the task bar in W7 and checked it said everything was ready and I didn't need to do anything else. It was only on the W8.1 install that it asked me to reserve a copy.

This is from my W7 install.

OK, don't know what to tell you then. Weird?

Cliff S · 01 Jun 2015

I wonder if the Tin Foil Hats that uninstalled/blocked the DiagTracking(KB 3022345) update are this.

People are getting false positives when running SFC/DISM and get that "telemetry.ASM-WindowsDefault.json" & "utc.app.json" can't be repaired, so they uninstall or re-image and hide the update. I've had to explain to a few not to worry about those false positives, but they just go ahead and uninstalled

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RamboMcMutNutts · 01 Jun 2015

Have not got my notification yet...but I do have auto updates switched off as I prefer to do them manually.

Just downloaded and installed a few updates so hopefully when my machine restarts it will be there.

alkaufmann · 01 Jun 2015

I did not see any icon in the taskbar but when I checked updates I was asked if I wanted to reserve a copy. It is now reserved.

The only concern I have is that I just did a clean install of Window 8.1 PRO and Office 2013 because of a couple of programs that did not work properly with Windows 10 and Office 2016. I did send in bug reports so I hope the release version will make me happy.

Ak

n70shan · 01 Jun 2015

Please help. i m running registered windows 8.1 pro with automatically updates enabled and all updates including optional ones installed but i have not got Get windows 10 notification or anything like that for reservation. i checked updates just now but no new update available. any ideas what to do?? can i manually install this reservation app etc?

alkaufmann · 01 Jun 2015

n70shan said:

Please help. i m running registered windows 8.1 pro with automatically updates enabled and all updates including optional ones installed but i have not got Get windows 10 notification or anything like that for reservation. i checked updates just now but no new update available. any ideas what to do?? can i manually install this reservation app etc?

Maybe it takes a bit longer to get to Pakistan?

TechnoMage · 01 Jun 2015

alphanumeric said:

I just did the same thing on my laptop. Had to do the optional updates twice actually. Still didn't get the notification window in Windows update but I did get the notification icon in my notifications section of my taskbar. Just did the reservation on that too.

Thank you , for mentioning the notification in the system tray. I just saw it and now my Windows 10 is Reserved.
Sometimes we can miss those simple little things, until someone mentions them.
Thanks again!

TechnoMage