Hi.

I tried to install windows but it stays at 0 percent. I know my copyof windows is legal, would I have to put in the product key when installing windows? Because if so; I don't have it.

Hello,
I tried to install this on my computer, but it said something like, Windows Ten could not be installed properly. Please reboot your PC and try again. I am running Windows Seven Home on a desktop computer. I got the notificiation that I was all set to go. I ran the slui.exe, and it says I have Windows activated. I'm not sure what's going on.

Listen to the latest of Windows Weekly

Or if you can't wait that long for a show, short of the answer is, skip the key, and Win10 will activate. Though, you'll have to go to the activation option. No idea since that is, since I don't have Windows 10, nor use Windows music anymore. As a  side note, the laest windows weekly speaks most of what i have already said in great length.

hi,
in order to get a valid upgrade to windows 10, you must choose the upgrade this pc option from the media creation tool and perform an upgrade. Doing a clean install will not generate a new key.

For anyone that needs to retrieve their product key:

Magical Jelly Bean Key Finder:
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thanks Jean! Question for everyone... this is my first independent windows install, so I want to make sure I do this right. Can someone walk me through installing windows 10 on my current laptop running windows 8.1? Other than the media creation tool, what's the standard way of going about getting it? How much of my programs and installations does it keep, etc? I know a lot about computers that are already up and running... but have never started from scratch. How accessible is the install process for windows 10?

According to toms hardware.
Home addition doesn't have any pro features there is a windows home and pro additions article on the ms site.
the kn and n additions of pro have no media applications and no skype.
a barebones pro.
I'd probably go full pro myself though saying that I would probably get my own media player, or players and skype desktop so I am not sure if that matters.
You may have to get media codecs and such though.

thanks for answering, Shaun.
Lukas

Hello everyone, I am writing this post using Windows Ten with NVDA 2015, the latest version, and so far, it's kind of okay, but not that great. I keep getting notifications every time I launch NVDA about how this programme might not be compatible. This makes me wonder how much of the programmes I have been using on Windows Seven will work now.
I also like their new sounds, alhough I am disappointed that I can't hear them if I press a wrong key in a list or something. Microsoft Edge is not really accessible, so I am using INternet Explorer right now.
I wonder where Microsofot gets all of their sound effects for each operating system?
Also, Cortana doesn't seem to be working because it's saying something about it not beingt supported in my region or language.
Oh, and in the middle of the download part, my computer slowed down considerably, and the first time that happened I thought my computer had crashed or something. Once the hard drive even shut down at random while i was working on something, so I had to restart it. Fortunately, it didn't happen again.

The Windows installer is still. not. accessible! F***ing Microsoft! Ok, with that brief rant out of the way, let me tell you about the installer.

If you are trying to install the operating system from scratch, good luck. Narrator does not read the install window, so you will need to use the Talking Windows Preinstallation package from Brian Smart. If oyu just want to do an upgrade of the system, it should work. The installer just puts your previous installation of Windows into a folder called Windows.old and installs the new OS.

As for my thoughts, well I have not noticed any noticable updates in Narrator. I found a couple of commands for navigating in tree views. That leaves a sour taste in my mouth. Microsoft had what? 3 years to create Windows 10? THe best they did was add a couple new Narrator commands and possibly tweak some other internal things? What a joke! The WIndows installer is still not accessible despite my feedback on Windows Insider. I just have a hard time taking Microsoft accessibility seriously anymore. I would love to sit down with an accessibility person from Microsoft for hours and just talk about all the things they should have improved on.

Maybe I'm being too harsh, but this is really starting to irritate me. Apple had accessibility right in versions of OS X as old as Leopard. YOu could even install the operating system independently in Mac OS X Tiger. THat's 10 years of accessible installers on OS X, even though Narrator has been around since 2000 or so. I don't care if you think Voiceover navigation is too hard or what ever. The point is it could be used to independently troubleshoot your computer since day 1. If you ask me, Microsoft should take serious accessibility lessons from Apple. The NFB could even help here if they would stop worshiping Jaws and actually encourage Microsoft to improve there accessibility features. While we're talking about Jaws, why doesn't Freedom Scientific help Microsoft make the installer accessible? You can't install Windows with Jaws. Then again, they don't want Narrator to imporve or else they lose their precious money supply. Do they really care about access for blind/visually impaired people or just putting money in their pockets?

So yeah, I'm very disappointed with Windows 10 as it stands. I'm sorry for this rant, but I am just frustrated and saddened to see that we have not really come very far. I thought something was happening with Windows 8 Narrator, but this just crushes all my hopes for native accessibility in Windows.