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Dave,
I was told here on CP to do the upgrade first, and follow that up with a clean install, for the following reason:
Quote: It is important to do the upgrade first, then follow up with a clean install. When you upgrade your machine is registered with Microsoft as eligible for Win 10, and you won't need an expensive activation code later - during the clean install. Just skip the parts where a clean install asks for the activation code.
I have done this on a few machines, including one that was totally messed up by the upgrade, and after the upgrade I formatted the systems drive and did a clean install. This worked for me every time. Windows 10 was activated immediately after a clean install.
Also: I believe the 10586 build is the latest Win 10 version. Using this ISO will spare you a later, lengthy upgrade.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
modified 14-Feb-16 12:24pm.
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The one big assumption there is that the machine actually makes it through the upgrade! Mine didn't. The upgrade bricked and I could not get it to restore back to Win7. I had no choice but to wipe the machine and install from DVD.
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Did Win 10 activate after your clean install?
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Yes, but only because I used the image off of MSDN.
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My machine boots UEFI mode, and I had no issues after any of the updates. Go figure! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I am the original poster. I have windows 7. When I said
'go away' to windows 10, I meant the continual annoying
interfering push when updating 7 to switch to 10!
My Linux box is standing by for 2020...
73
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Dude, Windows 7 is over a decade old now. Let go already! There is no point in holding onto antediluvian technology.
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Quote: antediluvian
Wow! A new word for me. I had to look it up, since I only know little words.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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'antediluvian' as in 'before the flood' is a good adjective!
I installed windows 10 and uninstalled it after about one day.
It has been described as a privacy nightmare but what also annoyed
me was no pop3 mail client, only imap (perhaps there is now)
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I use POP3 on Windows 10 so I know that was patently false. Talk about 'antediluvian', pretty sure POP3 is older than me. 
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Camilo Reyes wrote: pretty sure POP3 is older than me.
Unfortunately, I can't say the same. I even pre-date POP1! 
POP1 was specified in RFC 918 (1984), POP2 by RFC 937 (1985). POP3 originated with RFC 1081 (1988).
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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So I was at the bar last night when the waitress screamed "does anyone know CPR!?"
I said "hell, I know the entire alphabet!"
Everyone laughed...
Well, everyone except this one guy.
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Having been in a situation just like that, I don't find this funny.
I was with some of my friends when an older man had a heart attack and collapsed, one waiter yelled out "Does anyone here know CPR?". One guy made that quip, and some laughed, but my friends and I jumped up, raced over and started doing CPR on the older man until Paramedics arrived.
He would have died otherwise. He was celebrating his 95th birthday with his family. He survived the incident and ended up living to 101.
Someone having a heart attack is a very serious and (usually) deadly matter, it is no time nor place for joking around.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Lighten up BA, it was a joke, marked as such. It is only in bad taste because of your personal experience and yes the guy making the quip was a douche because when it happens it is not a joke!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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100% agreed 
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And I agree 100%... with Brinsingr.
Just because it's a joke, and marked as such, it aint funny.
Life is too shor
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: I don't find this funny.
Don't ever go into a hospital staffroom then. The guys and girls that deal with this kind of stuff everyday tell jokes far more scabrous than this!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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It's funny because 'C', 'P' and 'R' are 3 letters of the alphabet, and the guys is saying he knows all the letters of the alphabet, not just those 3!
It's a sad world when you have to explain simple jokes to people like you...
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From the responses, it looks like we need a moderator of all jokes, an omnipotent one who knows what is funny for all, who'll be PC, take into account all scenarios, religions, ethnicities, etc....bullsh*t, people need to grow an ever so slightly thicker skin and not whine about things so inconsequential as this.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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The moderator disapproves of your post!
Then again, I get that people don't find such things funny though.
I didn't enjoy The Hangover. Alcohol destroys lots of lives (although that's not why I didn't like it, it's just not my humor). That one became a mega success though
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I get it too, but I don't need to post about it. What is terrible for one is hysterical for another, so what. God Moderator forbid we should be different.
p.s. shouldn't that Moderator.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Nice.[^]
(Just to help provide a better mood than from my previous post.)
[edit] The "companion video" mentioned in the post is really amazing. [/edit]
Marc
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Is that your cat?
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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