Tntmpd for mac install#

Each time that it asked me for my key I just chose to skip it. It actually went very smoothly which was a bit surprising for me given my OS corruption, finishing the whole process in an hour or less.Īfter I activated Windows 10 I rebooted to the USB drive and did a clean install. Following that advice I used my USB installer to do a Windows 10 upgrade in place.

Tntmpd for mac install#

I found an excellent article on Forbes that explained that to get the free upgrade you have to an in-place upgrade, activate Windows 10 there, then you can do the clean install and all will be well.

So I booted back into Windows 8 and did some research. Making an assumption that since the upgrade was free I could use my Windows 8.1 key, I plugged that in. One of the first screens asked me for my Windows key. With my USB stick ready and all of my stuff backed up I proceeded to boot from the USB drive to do the installation. My computer did not get the lovely windows logo in the system notification area due to the aforementioned system corruption.

My first step was to download the media creation tool from Microsoft so that I could do the installation via a USB drive. I had planned to do the same thing with Windows 10 not only because of my history, but because I was having some system file corruption due to my backup software reacting badly to my hard drive. Except for the upgrade from 8 to 8.1, I have always done my upgrade by formatting the hard drive and doing a clean install. I have installed every version of Windows from 3.1 on up except for Windows Millennium (which was a publicity stunt, not a real OS upgrade).

I have worked with Microsoft operating systems since the days of MS-DOS 3.3. This post is a short description of that process for me. Well, that opportunity came already this last Saturday. With the availability of Windows 10 on July 29th as a free update, I had decided some time ago that I was going to be making the change as soon as possible.