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Is there a way to get a Windows 10 license with my Windows 8.1 install, without actually installing Windows 10?
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Jun 3, 2016 23:28
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fishmech posted:If you don't want to install Windows 10, you will have to buy a Windows 10 upgrade license as you would have bought an upgrade license for any other Windows release (or just regular Windows 10). Does imaging the drive, upgrading, and restoring the image work, then?
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Jun 4, 2016 04:48
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fishmech posted:Yes, the license will remain valid for that hardware configuration. Eletriarnation posted:You can also disconnect your current drive[s], attach a spare, install 10 using your 7 key (with a November or newer image only), and then swap back to the original drive[s] if that's easier. The hardware signature that determines if your previous activations remain valid isn't tied to which drive you use at all. So it's tied to the hardware, nontransferable? drat, that means I need to actually build this computer soon...
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Jun 4, 2016 21:28
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nielsm posted:Your Win10 license is a "digital entitlement" tied to your hardware ID, that entitlement should be valid to the end of time, for any number of reinstalls, as long as the hardware doesn't change too much. How much is "too much"? I mean, if your motherboard were to die...
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Jun 12, 2016 20:17
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Well, that doesn't help much if it's an old machine where the motherboard isn't really produced anymore...
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Jun 12, 2016 20:31
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Weird, my Vista computer had an OEM install and my Gigabyte board died, was replaced with an ASUS P5Q Premium and I didn't need to reactivate.
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Jun 14, 2016 04:50
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Rusty! posted:The start menu is fine, but the search is crap: Literally the reason I'm still on Windows 8.1
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Jun 15, 2016 17:02
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Snow Fire posted:Search has worked perfectly well for me, haven't had any problems with it not finding stuff instantly, guess I should count myself lucky-nya~ Why this
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Jun 15, 2016 20:45
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I can't handle this
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Jun 15, 2016 23:33
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Happy_Misanthrope posted:wtf is this "The Year of our Lord"
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Jun 21, 2016 03:42
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At this point I just want Vulkan to take over so I can switch to Linux.
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Jun 23, 2016 03:30
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Never said it would, but it would definitely help.
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Jun 23, 2016 14:39
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necrotic posted:Not as long as game devs keep using DirectX. Well, yes. This is why in my original post I wanted Vulkan to take over. Was that unclear somehow
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Jun 24, 2016 04:33
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Eletriarnation posted:My bet is that they won't deliberately extend it because anyone who hasn't upgraded already is either hell-bent on avoiding it or never turns their computer on, so what's the point? Extending it sets an expectation that the deadline won't be real for Windows 11 either if they decide to go through this whole song and dance again, and the biggest immediate effect of another month extension will probably just be more gamers being able to activate their new Skylake rigs with grey market Windows 7 OEM keys. There won't be a Windows 11, iirc.
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Jun 28, 2016 07:12
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Arsten posted:I played with that a month or two ago. The support is very buggy. VLC? Buggy? What a surprise
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Jun 29, 2016 17:53
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Windows 10: I have no idea what that error is
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Jul 1, 2016 16:47
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I imagine a world where goons can communicate and understand each other.
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Jul 3, 2016 03:39
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So what happens if I name my PC "Theseus"?
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Jul 4, 2016 06:34
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Hmm. Only time I had excessive boot times was when I had a ton of external wd greens hooked up.
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Jul 15, 2016 09:21
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What were the programs people used to make search not lovely?
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Jul 18, 2016 03:36
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UWP is the devil.
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Jul 27, 2016 07:45
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dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/sda
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Jul 28, 2016 06:30
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Jesus Christ what is going on in here? You know we have a security thread right?
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Jul 31, 2016 15:10
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Microsoft would never move to shut out competition, control platforms, and act anti-competitively.
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Aug 1, 2016 06:23
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So am I reading correctly that I'll have to toggle all the dumb privacy/telemetry/screenshotting bullshit off again after updating?
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Aug 2, 2016 04:05
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I'm not too enthused
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Sep 30, 2016 16:34
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Will I get native weechat?
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Oct 1, 2016 19:31
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Who is this thurrot?
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Oct 6, 2016 08:51
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"gently caress you, got mine. Git gud."
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Oct 15, 2016 18:21
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People suspend their desktops?
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Oct 15, 2016 21:36
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wolrah posted:Do you not? No. What's the point of a desktop if you're using it like a laptop? Just plug one in to the monitor. Mine runs plex and a few other services 24/7, as does my old e6750 which acts as a NAS. It also hasn't been hit by mandatory updates and restarts. Maybe I somehow disabled that. My uptime is usually on the order of months.
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Oct 15, 2016 23:10
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NFX posted:Wait, people turn their stoves off? What's the point of a stove if you're using it like a camping stove? Just hook one up to your gas line. TIL Computers are an excessive fire and suffocation hazard.
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Oct 16, 2016 16:23
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HMS Boromir posted:Pff. >dat excess cabling You gotta consider cable management, yo. 
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Oct 20, 2016 18:04
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xamphear posted:It's 2016 and people are still disabling their swap files. With Microsoft so eager to remove control from the end user, why haven't they removed that from the system properties control panel? Just leave the option for people to pick which drive it lives on, and keep everything else as automatically managed. Because Windows 10 is an operating system, not an embedded device.
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Oct 28, 2016 02:10
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how long until microsoft turns Windows into a platform-agnostic set of APIs and is done with it?
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Nov 3, 2016 20:34
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redeyes posted:I have to tell about 5-10 people a DAY to reboot holding shift to fix whatever Windows 10 suspend fuckups are going on. Drives me loving crazy. Thanks MS! What does shift do?
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Nov 10, 2016 07:14
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A good poster posted:Shrink it through GParted in Linux, or through Disk Management in Windows? I'd say do it through gparted. Disk management doesn't like to move things around in order to shrink them in general, and hates resizing the system partition.
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Nov 25, 2016 17:20
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"Please close programs to free up memory" What is even going on
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Nov 27, 2016 07:09
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But it is set to system managed.
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Nov 27, 2016 07:53
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Probably Chrome then. It's been running for a few weeks.
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Nov 27, 2016 08:20
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