Upgrading to Windows 10 Build 9926

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Has anyone upgraded Windows 8 or 8.1 to Windows 10 Build 9926? If you did, how did it go? Did all of your installed programs transfer? Particularly the paid for ones. I started with Windows 7, and all of my installed programs transferred to Windows 10 Build 9926, but I only had free ones installed.

What was your upgrade path? Did you have to upgrade Windows 8/8.1 to Windows 10 Developer Preview, and then upgrade that to Build 9926, or is their some way to install Build 9926 from Windows 8/8.1.

What do you think of Windows 10 so far?

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What was your upgrade path? Did you have to upgrade Windows 8/8.1 to Windows 10 Developer Preview, and then upgrade that to Build 9926, or is their some way to install Build 9926 from Windows 8/8.1.

There’s no Developer Preview, but ISOs are available for Build 9926 of the Technical Preview:

Download Windows 10 Technical Preview ISO

Windows 11 Pro version 22H2 build 22621.1778 + Microsoft 365 + Edge

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I upgraded from 8.1 to 10 and most of my programs survived the ‘upgrade’. One that didn’t was Taskbar Tweaker, but I didn’t use it for much, only a few cosmetic changes like adding seconds to the time display,
What I am having trouble with is the right click functions on start. I have no access to control panel or to administrative functions, and wonder if this may be because I had Start is Back on the 8.1 setup. I may reload my image of 8.1 and remove these before upgrading again.

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Has anyone upgraded Windows 8 or 8.1 to Windows 10 Build 9926? If you did, how did it go? Did all of your installed programs transfer? Particularly the paid for ones. I started with Windows 7, and all of my installed programs transferred to Windows 10 Build 9926, but I only had free ones installed.

What was your upgrade path? Did you have to upgrade Windows 8/8.1 to Windows 10 Developer Preview, and then upgrade that to Build 9926, or is their some way to install Build 9926 from Windows 8/8.1.

What do you think of Windows 10 so far?

I guess I will ultimately have to try the upgrade on a spare box as Drew recommends. My concern is how will Win10 work with older software. I have a production Cadd program that yet has not updated to work with 8 or 8.1. Is there cause to think I will have a problem if I upgrade to Win10? Just curious. Thanks for any replies.

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Drew,

As I said I reloaded 8.1 from my image, had to adjust the partitions first to get rid of the recovery partition and I reloaded the original MBR as well. I dual boot with W7 and I had to use EBCD to adjust the boot settings.
I didn’t think I needed to go to another PC, I only used 8.1 as a test to play with (and evaluate) and I’m taking the same approach with W10.
Can’t say I’m impressed with either 8.1 or 10, although 10 does show some promise. Think I’ll play with this preview for a while but W7 remains my main system.
I should perhaps add that all my data, including downloads and system images, are on separate drives.

Alex

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I always use a spare HDD to clean install a beta OS, if there is an ISO for them. I prefer them over a VM or dualboot. Of those two options I’d go with a dualboot if the HDD has enough space.

VM’s, IMHO, should only be used if you have a minimum of a 4 core cpu and 8 gigs of RAM. This is because you have the allocate half or your hardware to the VM so the OS can have a decent chance at running right. If not your VM experience will be dodgy at best. As the Food-lion commercials go…that’s just my 2 cents.

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I have installed Win 10 builds 9879 and 9926 on Virtualbox.

The Guest Additions worked on build 9879 but not on build 9926 – has anyone else had this problem?
Is there a solution?
Are Oracle aware of it?

Thanks

stegra

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@Marc,

If you have one or more programs that will not run with Win 8/8.1 they will not run with Win10.

Joe

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What is the Host OS?

Cheers,
Drew

Sorry.

The host OS is Windows 7 64bit. The PC is 3.3GHz i5 with 8Gb of RAM.

Stegra

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I have install duel booth 8.1 and 10
I found the 10 IE does all work so had to use the 8.1 until that is fixed.
FYI make a duel booth or do as I did re-stall 8.1

Dave

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