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So I went to upgrade last night on my Bootcamp partition on my Mac. Thursday the Get Windows 10 app had appeared and said everything was ready to go and I was just waiting for it to notify me when it was ready to upgrade. Well last night, that app had mysteriously disappeared completely, wouldn't reappear, and the troubleshooter for it was now claiming my computer wasn't acceptable for the upgrade (late 2011 MBP). I said screw that and went the Media Downloader way. Everything went great until it booted up into the completed Windows 10...and the trackpad isn't working. Wonderful. I grab my mouse I use for NoLimits, Illustrator, and other precision-required situations and all is well. Turns out the Bootcamp utility hasn't upgraded itself at all in a while, as the version # was 4.0, and the most current version is 5.1.xxxx. Ok, that's fine, I'll just download the latest version from the Apple downloads page and everything will be great. Find the package, download it, start the installation, and..."You must be running Windows 7" error message pops up. I'm a little ticked, but maybe I just need to have it run the installer in compatibility mode as Win7 or 8. I try both, still won't work. So whatever, I can still boot into Windows and the mouse works, I'll just install the individual driver for the trackpad. It says it's installed, and I can move the cursor, but I have to physically click the pad and can't right click since it doesn't recognize any of the multi-finger operations, and there's no way to adjust its settings. Ugh.

I'm hoping I can figure out a way to install the Bootcamp utility without having to revert back to 7, install it, and then sit through the 10 install again (I have to be there through the entire install period as when it has to restart, I have to hold the alt key to bring up the boot drive list to keep it from booting back up into the Mac partition). I really like what little I saw of 10 last night, and Edge seems like a good advancement over IE.
 
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NJ-Buckeye said:
@Buckerooni go into Norton and try to manually pull in updates and run a scan.. that'll tell you if you are back up
My Norton looked fine... but I ran it thru some paces just to make sure
I couldn't do manually update or scans so I had to call Norton and let them have remote access
to do a total re-install but especially a clean uninstall...

The upgrade also impacted my fingerprint scanner... I tried to replace the driver myself... but needed Driver Detective to fix it
Windows Update has moved
Control Panel is different
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Yes, I did that and Norton is working --- I did have to totally uninstall-reinstall.

Definitely things have moved around - I'm still figuring it all out.

One thing that happened was that when I went to print a Word doc, it kept popping up something about faxing. For some reason, my printer window in Word was reset to "Fax," which I didn't notice at first. So everytime I hit print, it thought I was trying to electronically fax a document (does anyone do that anymore?). Anyhow, I just chose the actual printer from the dropdown box, and all was well. But I expect to encounter other frustrations as I move along here.

And @jwinslow - thanks for the tip. Norton has been giving me problems for awhile and I plan to let my subscription run out. I am thinking about Sophos, for various reasons, but haven't made a final decision.
 
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Buckerooni said:
Yes, I did that and Norton is working --- I did have to totally uninstall-reinstall.

Definitely things have moved around - I'm still figuring it all out.

One thing that happened was that when I went to print a Word doc, it kept popping up something about faxing. For some reason, my printer window in Word was reset to "Fax," which I didn't notice at first. So everytime I hit print, it thought I was trying to electronically fax a document (does anyone do that anymore?). Anyhow, I just chose the actual printer from the dropdown box, and all was well. But I expect to encounter other frustrations as I move along here.

And @jwinslow - thanks for the tip. Norton has been giving me problems for awhile and I plan to let my subscription run out. I am thinking about Sophos, for various reasons, but haven't made a final decision.
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scarletmike said:
So I went to upgrade last night on my Bootcamp partition on my Mac. Thursday the Get Windows 10 app had appeared and said everything was ready to go and I was just waiting for it to notify me when it was ready to upgrade. Well last night, that app had mysteriously disappeared completely, wouldn't reappear, and the troubleshooter for it was now claiming my computer wasn't acceptable for the upgrade (late 2011 MBP). I said screw that and went the Media Downloader way. Everything went great until it booted up into the completed Windows 10...and the trackpad isn't working. Wonderful. I grab my mouse I use for NoLimits, Illustrator, and other precision-required situations and all is well. Turns out the Bootcamp utility hasn't upgraded itself at all in a while, as the version # was 4.0, and the most current version is 5.1.xxxx. Ok, that's fine, I'll just download the latest version from the Apple downloads page and everything will be great. Find the package, download it, start the installation, and..."You must be running Windows 7" error message pops up. I'm a little ticked, but maybe I just need to have it run the installer in compatibility mode as Win7 or 8. I try both, still won't work. So whatever, I can still boot into Windows and the mouse works, I'll just install the individual driver for the trackpad. It says it's installed, and I can move the cursor, but I have to physically click the pad and can't right click since it doesn't recognize any of the multi-finger operations, and there's no way to adjust its settings. Ugh.

I'm hoping I can figure out a way to install the Bootcamp utility without having to revert back to 7, install it, and then sit through the 10 install again (I have to be there through the entire install period as when it has to restart, I have to hold the alt key to bring up the boot drive list to keep it from booting back up into the Mac partition). I really like what little I saw of 10 last night, and Edge seems like a good advancement over IE.
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Keep me posted on how this goes. I'm interested in upgrading my BootCamp partition as well. I tried it with the technical preview and it was garbage, so I downgraded back to Win7. I assumed that a big part of the problem (besides the fact that it was essentially beta software) was the fact that BootCamp hadn't been updated.
 
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jlb1705 said:
Keep me posted on how this goes. I'm interested in upgrading my BootCamp partition as well. I tried it with the technical preview and it was garbage, so I downgraded back to Win7. I assumed that a big part of the problem (besides the fact that it was essentially beta software) was the fact that BootCamp hadn't been updated.
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When I booted back into Windows 10 today my trackpad was working pretty much as normal, by some unkown magic, and BootCamp Utility had more options magically appear after the whole thing seemingly disappeared after trying to update it to 5 last night (it's still ver. 4.0). The Blue Tooth driver is still borked, but I don't use a BT mouse or anything else, and Windows is pretty much solely used for SimCity 4, Roller Coaster Tycoon, and NoLimits so I'm not too worried about it. I've seen some workarounds posted for more generic drivers like BT and wifi, so as long as your main hardware (screen/graphics, keyboard, and trackpad) functions, you should be good. Just make sure you're running the latest version of the BootCamp Utility (5.1.xxxx) before you upgrade to 10 again, and keep the BC Utility installer package handy in case you need to reinstall any individual drivers that didn't transition properly.

Due to how small my partition is (about 45GB, only 1.3 were free after the upgrade), I started to try and prep for stripping things down to get to the 16GB required to return to Win7, but the hassle was too much, and the ver4.0 utility seems to be working well enough for me to wait until Apple gets around to updating BootCamp for Win10. Hopefully that happens in the next month or so.
 
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It took a couple of tries to get it to download and install. There were some outstanding updates it had to do first for 8 before it could upgrade to 10. All in all the upgrade took a little over an hour. So far, no issues with how it runs.
 
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you can find all those drivers.. I took the lazy way out and subscribed to Driver Detective..
it knocked out my fingerprint scanner and corrupted my virus scan

this box is a Lenovo ThinkPad W520
 
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I highly recommend anyone who upgrades to Windows 10 immediately go to your manufacturer website and download the Windows 10 drivers for your device. I've upgraded my two custom workstations that have an ASRock and MSI motherboard and I had some issues before getting the new drivers. I also had issues with my Logitech G510 and found that they had already released Windows 10 drivers that resolved my issues.
 
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The upgrade from 8.1 to 10 went remarkably well for both my computers!
Even Tidal was picked back up no problem.
I find in usage things feel "smoother". I'm doing customization as I work with it.
It took about 2-3 hours for all the updates . And shared photos.
 
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Apple just released Boot Camp 6, which officially supports Windows 10...but only officially on Macs from 2012 on (my MBP is a late 2011 model). I'll probably see if I can still get the update working on my Windows 10 install later today (the official instructions all say to update BC before you upgrade to 10, nothing about after the upgrade has been done). A big catch with this, though, is that it doesn't "support" all of the multi-touch gestures in Windows, but there is a 3rd party driver for that, evidently.
 
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I upgraded my Surface Pro, it worked wonders for the device. The transition to tablet mode is something that works really smooth now.

One note, if you update a "pro" version of your software (windows 7 professional, 8 professional) it will require a tweak to your registry as the os is supposed to be linked to a windows domain, at least that is what Microsoft says. But a simple registry tweak will fix that.

Overall, I like it, but it's only used for my work machine (Run a mac at home) so I can't really give a full review.
 
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