Yep, I went all the way back to the "Original" install disk.

I've downloaded the Win 10 from the "Manufacturer" . . . .

When the driver(s) try to install, the ALL say:
"The graphics driver...

I'm running into a similar situation with an nVidia card (GTX 770M) after doing a clean Win 10 install to an SSD . . . how do you install the drivers, "THEN" the card.

Without trying to be rude,...

Everything was working on Windows 7.

Spec's: Onboard graphics (intel 4600), and nVidia GTX 770M.

Did a clean install of Windows 10, on a new SSD and the GTX 770M isn't even recognized as even...

Hi whs,

could the same thing not be accomplished with a USB recovery drive that we create after the install?

Thanks.

Thanks Word Man.

IF I had defined my own partitions with Gparted and never created a WinRe partition OR an MSR partition, would windows create them by readjusting the size of the OS partition...

Normally I Partition my drives myself using Gparted.
With a Fresh out of the box (Not even formatted) I wanted to see what Win10 would do with the drive.

It created 3 partitions (Which surprised...

Thanks for the reply's everyone.

To make sure that we are all on the same page here is what I have done exactly:

I've downloaded from the "Media Creation Tool" from Microsoft here:...

I have a few machines now running Windows 10 pro and I was wondering if I need to create a "Recovery Drive" for all of them (2 are the same model, and one is different), or, can I create one that...

Will do. Thanks for checking it. I thought maybe I was missing something. I guess as long as we can see it as one of the running processes we should be good knowing it is indeed 'on' . . . would...

Will do when I get home. Still seems Odd that if it IS running and have asked it to show the icon that it doesn't appear. Thanks for the reply and will report back.

Per chance, if you set it to...

Yep. I did all of that. And yet when I restart, it is not there. The settings haven't changed, and the only way to get it to show again is to click the "Use Windows Defender" link again.

I...

I've just upgraded to Win 10 and I am slowly figuring out where everything is.
I also like to set certain apps to be visible in the Tray.
Windows Defender is one of those I have set to be visible...

Thanks for all the tips folks.

At the risk of getting to far off of this threads theme, how does Macrium Reflect compare to the Acronis solution?
I know with Acronis you can image an OS from one...

Hey ramram55, thanks for the response.

I guess that was the part I was unclear on (the underlined part above).
. . . how do they know I am "legit"?

Just making sure I fully understand the...

Hi Word Man, Thanks again for the response.

I am slowly getting it I think.
As per my questions in the previous post here: New Laptop: Upgrade or Clean Install Windows 10? - Windows 10 Forums
...

Thanks for the response.

If the ID is going to ". . . stay in your machine . . .", I think this is something I'd like to be more clear on.
The only place it can "stay" is on my Hard Drive. If it...

I am a little confused how the whole license validation thing is working with the "Upgrade" process.
I am due to do a clean install of Windows 7. "Upgrading" to Win 10 it will check/re-check???...