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Yes No. Thank you! Any more feedback? The more you tell us the more we can help. Can you help us improve? Resolved my issue. Clear instructions. Easy to follow. No jargon. Pictures helped. Didn't match my screen. Incorrect instructions.

Too technical. Not enough information. Not enough pictures. Yes No. Thank you! Any more feedback? The more you tell us the more we can help. Can you help us improve? Resolved my issue. Clear instructions. Easy to follow. No jargon. It has pointed out some areas in my environment that will need polishing before I can charge on to Windows 7, but finding these areas could not have been easier.

If only Microsoft would come up with a budgeting application that produced room for new IT purchases, I would be all set. Derek Schauland has been tinkering with Windows systems since What does the MAP toolkit do?

Note: During installation you will have the option to download SQL Express to store the data captured during inventory. All the information available is contained in one of these categories. Since I will be focusing on Windows 7 in this post, I will select the Discovery and Readiness category in the utilities left pane, as shown in Figure A.

Figure A Select the items you wish to review. Once I have highlighted the category, the right pane of the MAP window will display the various reports that can be generated with collected data. To begin the discovery process, click the link labeled Inventory and Assessment Wizard to start the process of inventorying your environment Figure B. Figure B. Editor's Picks. As a computing pioneer and veteran, I know there's nothing you did wrong on your end.

Out of curiosity, during your upgrade trial, did the compatibility tester flag any potential issues, or did it "green light" your upgrade? Hopefully in the next five weeks Microsoft will resolve these issues, but time is running short and build or whatever is current can't come fast enough.

Until the builds are stable, I would caution people to cancel their Windows 10 reservations until such time as it's known to be a stable upgrade experience. This concerns me as well. Naturally we're in beta and you expect some issues, but if this is any indication of the quality of windows updates, having them be forced onto your average home user's computer ahead of anyone else, for the express purpose of "seeing what happens" before giving it to professional and enterprise users, is in my mind, making them cannon fodder.

Five weeks is not very long - and if build isn't good enough to roll out to insiders, it makes me question their ability to make fast progress. Windows Insiders are presumably testing on computers that aren't needed to do work, and don't have important data stored on them. Your average home user just has one computer, or if they have more than one, each one holds important data like tax returns on one computer, family photos on another.

Most people don't make backups, and Microsoft needs to provide a reliable computing platform, otherwise it's an absolute disservice to be enticing users to trade-in their reliable paid-for Windows 7 or 8. Well, I found an "answer" that's really not an answer. The thread I found had an alternative strategy of creating a new account and logging in with that.

I couldn't use the technique he suggested because the error wouldn't allow anything but logging out and logging back in: the infinite loop. So I went back to task manager and ran cmd. There needs to be a way to either fix the main installation or make the account more ambulatory. I've got one more idea that just popped into my head. I have to say I didn't really expect this to turn into a time suck.

I thought it would turn out to be a relatively uneventful upgrade from W7 Pro, especially since I didn't install my usual productivity stuff to track real world complications.

Silly me. Everything is tied into THE microsoft account. It actually deleted the "new" account and sent me back to the hammered installation. At this point I'm ready to declare this little adventure a failure with hints of success. The actual upgrade itself was a "success", at least until I went to Windows Update.



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