Hmm.. strange. I've got a very old system that I am using to test. It was never part of the Insider program or tied to an MSA account at all. It was running Win7+Daz loader back in the day; about a year ado I did a clean install of Win 8.1 Pro VL, using with MTK EZ Activator to activate it. I just did an in-place upgrade using the 10240 ISO and it has worked perfectly. Whereas before I only had 180 days grace, now slmgr /xpr says windows is activated permanently, and there is no timebomb in Winver. slmbr/dlv shows the last six digital of my license key which I have googled and seems to be unique. What is going on? Did I get a legit Win 10 system from a Win 10 MTK-activated one?
windows.old not fully being removed is a bug, works on some installs, not on others Need to take ownership of the folder, remove it in safe mode
i really hope they don't have a windows 10.1 because you just know everybody will be calling it windows 101
did you run diskcleanup as admin,then tick the box for previous windows installations,while cleaning,a box will popup asking if you want to remove previous windows,tick ok,it always works for me.
Windows should not be using ANY files in there, it's the old windows install you upgraded from, any drivers in use should be installed into the new install
How to repair Windows image: In ADMIN Cmd Prompt type sfc /scannow may take up to 3 times press enter on keyboard if this finds errors try In ADMIN Cmd Prompt Type Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth Press enter on keyboard, wait for it to finish, If this does not fix problem, then With ISO Media in CD/DVD tray: (The same media you installed image with) Type in ADMIN Cmd Prompt DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth /source:wim:C:\install.wim:1 /limitaccess press enter on keyboard, wait for it to finish--C would be drive letter of your CD/DVD tray
See step 1. Right click Select Security tab Click on 'Advanced' Click 'change' ans select your administrator user name Make sure you 'tick' both ptions "Replace..." Click OK.. it will take long time.. about 4GB to take ownership of files.. let it be... Step 2. Go to same "Security' tab Select "Edit" Select 'Add' Select your administrator user name and add it Make sure you tci all the boxes.. FUll Control,etc.. CLick OK and let it be it will take a few minutes to finish Click OK Dne - Delete the folder Windows.old.
Yep, they should. But on 10166 and now 10240 I had four folders each with a .sys file in them. After deleting the old windows folder the way you described I got BSoD's. for 'irql not less or equal' errors. On 10166 a clean install fixed, on 10240 reinstalling the drivers seems to be working.
That's because takeown by itself doesn't work. You have to use icacls as well. Run this in admin prompt: Code: takeown /f c:\windows.old /r /d y & icacls c:\windows.old /grant Administrators:F /t rd /q/s c:\windows.old
u dont need photo viewer, just right click the file u need the select open, they have redesigned it. took me all of 3 secs to figure this out lol.