Today is the big day and Windows 10 has already been released worldwide. What can happen, that due to this deployment by phases and regions, the download and installation for your Windows 7 or Windows 8 can take days and even weeks.
If the rush is bad companions and you want to force the download and installation of Windows 10 to have your PC updated properly to enjoy all its virtues and benefits, then we show you how to do it. This tutorial is for users who have a genuine copy of Windows 7 SP1 or Windows 8.1 and with all previous updates from Windows Update downloaded and installed.
The first thing we are going to check is to know if your PC has already downloaded the update to Windows 10. We go straight to the hard drive C: / and if we see a folder named as «$ Windows. ~ BT»(Important to have the option to" Show hidden files and folders "active in Control Panel / Appearance and Personalization) you will be ready for the update.
If not, you have to follow the steps below.
How to force download and install Windows 10
- First step: make sure you have reserved a free copy in Windows 10. Access this entry or click on the icon in the quick access bar that allows you to reserve a free copy.
- Second step: Launch Windows Update and make sure the option to automatically receive updates is on.
- Third step: navigate to C: \ Windows \ SoftwareDistribution \ Download and delete everything you see in this folder.
- Fourth step: now we execute a command prompt or command prompt in administrator mode. Type 'CMD' in the search box on the start menu and right-click on the program to launch it as administrator.
- Fifth step: type this command and hit enter: wuauclt.exe /updatenow
- Step Six: After a few minutes, check Windows Update for updates. The download should already be starting Windows 10 on your PC.
- Once the download is complete, the preparation for the installation will begin.
You will already have list the installation to update to your system. If for whatever reason you want to perform a clean installation, you can access the ISOs that Microsoft has provided today.
I did that, and apparently the download started, when it finished, it was windows 10 technical preview and it couldn't install. I signed up as an insider, but I never installed the technical preview. Download the media creator to install windows 10 and it tells me an error when I update this pc. The icon to get windows 10 tells me: Thank you for reserving the free update, we will perform the update in groups and we will notify you when it is ready, a button appears to click: Ok, okay, I'll wait.
If I make a DVD with the ISO and try to update it with it, will it be possible or will it only serve to make the installation clean ???
Do you have a genuine copy of Windows 7 or Windows 8.1? All Windows Updates downloaded and installed? Have you deleted all the files from the download folder as indicated in the guide?
Hello, if my w8.1 pro with wmc is original, delete everything in the download folder, if I have all the updates, the folders appeared on the hard disk: $ WINDOWS.-BT and $ Windows.-WS, as I mentioned, The download started, in the installation it was Windows 10 Technical Preview, and in the end it failed, it tells me to check your device, the mentioned folders are still, but empty (before it had almost 5.3GB)
Or is the update still not available for Mexico?
The weird thing is that the Windows 10 Technical Preview version appears. Try deleting them again and trying to download it again. You are supposed to wait a few minutes or time for the update to automatically start downloading.
I assume you turned on automatic updates in Windows Update?
Inside the $ Windows.-WS Folder, there is a Folder called Soruce, which weighs 5.77GB, inside it, there are several .dll and host files, as well as 2 Folders, one called Panther and the other called Windows. Windows, weighs 3.10GB and has a Setup, I clicked it and it appears loading, when it reaches 100% the Windows 10 installer opens and tells me if I want to check for updates online or skip? What do I do, do I continue with it or do I do nothing?
The content of Source, appeared to me a while ago, because both $ Windows.-WS and $ WINDOWS.-BT were empty, the.-BT only has Source, Panther and within it XML, Text and ETL files, and the Folder Resources, which is empty ...
I have exactly the same problem, I don't know whether to delete and start again or what, because waiting for an installation whose files are already downloaded would not make sense
How do you carry this? Did you fix it?
Hello. I have the same problem. Could you solve it?
Hola!
I have a problem, and that is that when I click the get windows 10 icon it opens but instantly closes (when it says please wait) in windows update it says that windows 10 is already reserved and that they will notify me when it is available (which It is strange since I only clicked with the second button to the icon to get windows 10 and I gave it where it put reserve update and it opened and closed instantly) the case is, how can I install windows 10? I know it's reserved but I don't even know if it's downloaded or installed. Is there some kind of solution to this?
Thank you very much
In the tutorial I show how to know if you have downloaded it or not!
Did you follow all the steps said in the tutorial?
but if the windows message appears that says "we will perform the free update in groups and we will notify you when it is ready for you"
does that mean if it is going to install me? just how long is it going to take? or what does the message mean