Updating 'insider preview' Win10 to full version - HELP!

[swee'pea99]

I just came down to find my PC announcing that insider preview will be ending, I need to upgrade to full Win10, and if I don't do it within a fortnight, my computer will refuse to boot up. I have since spent an hour trying to find out how to actually do this - and getting nowhere.

Eg I go to here, where I'm told to click for upgrades. So I do, but instead of following the process at that link, it just tells me I'm up to date.

So I try here, where it tells me to "2.Select Stop Insider Builds, verify that you want to opt out, and then restart your PC", but when I try that, it says 'we need you to do a few things to stop receiving builds - click here' - and when I do, it takes me back to the first screen. Ie, it's a loop.

Plus any number of seriously geeky sites, most of them over my head and, when I eventually get into them, too old to be of any use.

So - a plea - does anyone out there know a straightforward way to do this?

PS Every Microsoft 'download Windows 10' link I have tried - eg this, and this produces a totally blank screen. Unh?

 

[jonny jeez]

"I'm afraid I cant do that swee'pea99"

 

[swee'pea99]

"I'm afraid I cant do that swee'pea99"

Shouldn't that be "I'm afraid I can't let you do that swee'pea99"....?

 

[jonny jeez]

Shouldn't that be "I'm afraid I can't let you do that swee'pea99"....?

Do I get credit for not googling it though?

 

[marknotgeorge]

I think the easiest way would be create a Windows 10 boot disk on a USB stick and go from there.

There's a reason you don't put a beta OS on your daily driver...

 

[swee'pea99]

Do I get credit for not googling it though?

Of course! The only reason the real McCoy came to mind is that my friend's daughter recently recited it to him after he was imprisoned by his new Vauxhall.

 

[steve50]

@swee'pea99 , go here, https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10
Follow the instructions to create a bootable flash drive or DVD, place dvd or flash drive into your pc then do a clean install.
If it was me I would not upgrade any computer to windows ten that hasn't been designed and built to run windows 10, i have repaired (rebooted) too many to remember mostly back to their original operating system.

Edit; how long have you been running windows 10, if less than a month you can roll back to the previous operating system by going to "setting" ............."repair and recovery"............" go back to previous operating system"

 

[swee'pea99]

@swee'pea99 , go here, https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10
Follow the instructions to create a bootable flash drive or DVD, place dvd or flash drive into your pc then do a clean install.
If it was me I would not upgrade any computer to windows ten that hasn't been designed and built to run windows 10, i have repaired (rebooted) too many to remember mostly back to their original operating system.

Edit; how long have you been running windows 10, if less than a month you can roll back to the previous operating system by going to "setting" ............."repair and recovery"............" go back to previous operating system"

Thanks, but like I say, when I follow that link I end up with this:

I've been running this 'insider preview' version of Win10 for six months now - I bought the PC with it loaded.

 

[steve50]

Thanks, but like I say, when I follow that link I end up with this:

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I've been running this 'insider preview' version of Win10 for six months now - I bought the PC with it loaded.

try a different browser, i noticed you have firefox, try opening the link with that,
Oh and by the way your Pc is infected, you have downloaded some 10bit software that comes bundled with a lot of useless adware that will cause the problems you are experiencing.

 

[swee'pea99]

Thanks for helping out. I eventually found a link to a download that worked, and best of all it installed the latest version without screwing with my existing setup. I can't help feeling it should have been possible without several hours of tearing my hair out, but all's well that ends well. And thanks again.