Installed it yesterday, the update took me like 7 hours, but all work well.

From what I understand this is kept in the cloud but not in your account. You can simply reinstall and reactivate on the same PC. However that won't work if you've moved to another PC.
I think I've read one comment that this doesn't work. I guess the jury's still out on this.

Thanks, bookmarked.

So back to the drawing board, which means:

- I need to upgrade my current Windows 7 installation to Windows 8 Pro.

- Then I upgrade that Win8 installation to Win10 (because that will grant me a Windows 10 Pro version, instead of Windows 10 Home I would get with my current Windows 7 Home).

- Then I'll have to see what I do, either clean install back to Windows 7, or clean install Windows 10 Pro again (in case I feel something didn't go quite right with the upgrade, some crap left behind etc.), or stay for now on that upgraded Windows 10 installation.

Just so that I can be sure I can go back to Windows 7, in case I later come into conclusion something doesn't work right for me in Windows 10 (most probably some old Windows game). Or then I decide to play those on my other, older, PCs... Decisions decisions, as long as I have different options still open.

If you want to freshen the installation you can simply do a refresh install (introduced in Windows 8). This reinstalls Windows, clears the registry, and moves program files and application data on the system partition to a windows.old folder (so you can retrieve anything you need). The standard Documents/Pictures/etc. folder contents remain in place. Other drive partitions are unaffected.

Some Windows 8/8.1 installation scenarios resulted in needing the installation media to do a refresh. I don't know whether this is still the case for Windows 10, but either way Microsoft has a Windows 10 download page for such purposes.

A reset->remove everything option is the same as using the install media. Using the installer media you'll need to use the windows account you used upon originally upgrading and the same computer with same hardware and it activate fine. the media works pretty good, just make sure your fully activated prior to using it, and if prompted for a serial code click skip and activate later.

Why does this remind me of Mortal Kombat X where reviewers were given a game copy early, and then at release they changed it and got the good reviews without talking about the annoying changes and micro-transactions that were added...

i switched very late to vista
around 2010 and by that time vista was working pretty well and i liked it

I had to use it at work. It was not a train wreck. It worked. But after many years of Linux, some things that were trivial to me at home were a struggle.

i also dont like the windopws XP style double colom start menu
i prefer classic start and when i finally went to 7 its because i found a classic start menu replacer which does what i want

to me windows 7's interface looks like vista and i like it that way

Here's where I'm confused. Some of you guys are posting all this information saying that everything is fine and none of the bad stuff that people like myself have posted is correct. Well, I hope you are right, trust me I do, because I'd like to give Win10 a try on at least one of my computers. But I have yet to find anything confirming your answers from any official Microsoft source. In fact, I've found contradictory information from Microsoft's own forums, and the information in the official FAQ isn't exactly clear on what happens in certain situations.

So for me at least, until I hear 100% confirmation directly from MS that my previously licenses are not revoked after that 30 day point, then I'm going to hold off. And besides that anyway, I still think the forced updates idea is just awful. Whoever came up with that one was drunk.

http://www.pcgamer.com/windows-10-solitaire-requires-a-subscription-to-remove-ads/

I think I may die laughing :D

What's next? Limit of how many folders you can create without a subscription? Ads on the desktop? Sponsored links randomly appearing in text files?

Disable Automatic Updates then choose what updates to install.

Actually that is all agreed by the user that install Windows 10. Microsoft can alter the software anytime they want. So installing Windows Vista 2 around the world is now trival for them.

They gave all the power to Microsoft and hope that they don't abuse it.

I guess I have to log in to that site in order to see that script, but it's good that there's a way to do it.

Moment for pastebin

Edit: here.