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You might not be waiting long enough. &nbsp;On my Win 7 laptops (before I deleted it), the Windows 10 download was 5 Gbytes. &nbsp;If you're at home, it shouldn't take more than... say... a &nbsp;week for it all to download.
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So the &quot;incompatible application&quot; warning is more of a smokescreen than anything else?
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Dave,<br />
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For the most part, the download was the only thing going on (left the laptop at Mom's running overnight), so I'll see in a few hours where I am with it.<br />
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nobus,<br />
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If it's not downloaded by the time I look at it, I'll try the KB. The media creation tool links to the same download page that the original upgrade box did (I tried that, but since it wasn't consequential I didn't mention it.<br />
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John,<br />
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Not sure your instructions make sense. The machine has Windows 7 on it, and I'm trying to upgrade it -- so I can't run anything from Windows 10.<br />
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jcimarron,<br />
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If I continue to run into issues, I'll do that. Any insight into what the issue might be?<br />
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I have used the Media Creation Link posted by nobus several times. If it will not download / run, the machine may not be a candidate for Windows 10. My instructions were for that link and that is why they did not make sense to you. <br />
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How old is the machine?
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<i>How old is the machine?</i> <br />
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Not so old that Microsoft says it's not a candidate for an upgrade. They think it is, and that's good enough for me.
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I have a machine that Microsoft says is a candidate for upgrade, but it won't. I wrote a major article on that one. <br />
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Paste the Media Creation Link in your web browser, run it and then follow my list of steps above.
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Just an update from last night. Tried the &quot;upgrade&quot; option, and as advertised, it wanted to update the upgrade before installing. After three hours of it sitting at zero per cent complete, I canceled, and started the download of the ISO.<br />
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We'll see tonight what happens when I start running it.
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Please let us know what happens.
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Thanks for the update and good luck as your time with Windows 10 progresses.
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ericpete --<br />
Glad to have been of help.
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One last update.<br />
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Running from the Windows update system in the Control panel seems to have worked. So far, I've found only one program that has an issue (Yahoo's Instant Messenger), and a few minor things seem to be missing (although they could just be buried somewhere -- it's going to take me a little while to get used to what Windows no longer makes easily accessible).<br />
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I have another machine I'm going to have to eventually update, and I may just try to do so from the Update window.<br />
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Thanks again!<br />
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ep
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&gt; it's going to take me a little while to get used to what Windows no longer makes easily accessible<br />
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So don't get used to it. Make W10 look like W7 instead (or even XP or W2k, the latter being the best Windows interface ever, imo, and the one I still prefer):<br />
<a href="https://www.experts-exchange.com/videos/1218" rel="ugc">Make Windows 10 Look Like Earlier Versions of Windows with Classic Shell</a><br />
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Regards, Joe
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ericpete--<br />
Glad to have helped.
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Thank you again for your great work.
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I've finally decided to bite the bullet and upgrade a Win 7 laptop to Windows 10. However, when I click on the little icon that's been sitting in the system tray for months, the window opens and says I have one application (an older version of Paragon's backup software) that is not compatible with Windows 10.<br />
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That was no big deal; I uninstalled it, and then tried again -- but the application is still listed. So I ran the latest version of CCleaner and cleaned the machine, including the registry and tried again. The application is still listed. I've checked the control panel, and the app is no longer listed there. I've even downloaded the GetWindows10-sds__________<wbr />___.exe app from Microsoft and tried that. But neither the &quot;upgrade now&quot; nor &quot;download and upgrade later&quot; buttons work; I get the window that says &quot;starting download&quot; -- but it doesn't.<br />
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Anyone have any ideas?
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I've finally decided to bite the bullet and upgrade a Win 7 laptop to Windows 10. However, when I click on the little icon that's been sitting in the system tray for months, the window opens and says I have one application (an older version of Paragon's backup software) that is not compatible with Windows 10.

That was no big deal; I uninstalled it, and then tried again -- but the application is still listed. So I ran the latest version of CCleaner and cleaned the machine, including the registry and tried again. The application is still listed. I've checked the control panel, and the app is no longer listed there. I've even downloaded the GetWindows10-sds_____________.exe app from Microsoft and tried that. But neither the "upgrade now" nor "download and upgrade later" buttons work; I get the window that says "starting download" -- but it doesn't.

Anyone have any ideas?

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