Do you really get Windows 10 free with 7 and 8.1?

I have 2 PCs. One with Windows 8.1 Pro 64bit and one withWindows 7 Home premium SP1 32bit. They meet the system requirements for Windows10. The Win 8.1 has an i7 @ 2.67GHz with 8GB RAM. The Win 7 has a P4 @ 3.4GHzwith 4 GB RAM. They both have 1TB HDs with 16GB free space.

System requirements
Basically, if your PC can run Windows 8.1, you’re goodto go. If you're not sure, don't worry—Windows will check your system to makesure it can install the preview.

• Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster
• RAM: 1 gigabyte (GB) (32-bit) or 2 GB (64-bit)
• Free hard disk space: 16 GB
• Graphics card: Microsoft DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM driver
• A Microsoft account and Internet access

I don’t have the Windows 10 icon in the tray on the win 7 or8.1 PC. I have all updates including KB3035583. I also have theWindows\System32\GWX folder with files. I am running Windows 10 preview on a virtualmachine since it came out with no problems. I tryed installing the KB3035583again. It said my PC is not compatible. If it’s not compatible, how did it installthe first time and how am I running Windows 10 preview with no problems?

Clint said:

I have 2 PCs. One with Windows 8.1 Pro 64bit and one withWindows 7 Home premium SP1 32bit. They meet the system requirements for Windows10. The Win 8.1 has an i7 @ 2.67GHz with 8GB RAM. The Win 7 has a P4 @ 3.4GHzwith 4 GB RAM. They both have 1TB HDs with 16GB free space.

I don’t have the Windows 10 icon in the tray on the win 7 or8.1 PC. I have all updates including KB3035583. I also have the Windows\System32\GWX folder with files.

I tried installing the KB3035583 again. It said my PC is not compatible.

There is a link for 'more info' or something along those lines when the appraiser reports the status. In my case, on the Win7 machine, the more info told me that a driver might not be compatible. The appraiser should give you that information up front, but alas, you have to look for it.

As Jeff (aka BunnyJ) mentioned you don't need to reserve the update to get it. On 29 July every qualifying install will be offered the update. Hopefully by that time MS will have worked through the not compatible issue and all working drivers will be available. The reservation provides MS an idea on how many installs will upgrade immediately and it also provides a mechanism to pre-load some of the bits in order to minimize the load on the servers.

If you still want to try and get the icon to show up, have a look at this thread:

Solved Get Windows 10 (gwx) app: Appraiser and Reservation notification icon

The zip file has a batch file that offers a few means to force the icon to appear. It took me three days to get it to show up on Win7 and then I uninstalled the GWX KB. I'll update next year after the first major release (codenamed Redstone)

Also know that it might take more than one choice to get it to show up or ... it might take a few days for it to show up .... or it might take more than one iteration of the choices.

Don't fret too much if you cannot get the icon to appear.

OK, I got the Win 8.1 PC fixed. I ran sfc /scannow and it found noproblems. Then I ran Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth. It said, thecomponent store corruption was repaired. Then I went to theWindows\System32\GNX folder and ran GWX.exe as administrator again. This timethe icon came up and I was able to reserve my copy of Windows 10.