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[ExtremeTech] How to download and install the Windows 10 Technical Preview

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Microsoft, right on schedule, has made the Windows 10 Technical Preview available to download. There are 64-bit and 32-bit versions available for US English, Real English, Chinese, and Portuguese. Follow these instructions to download and install the Windows 10 Technical Preview.

Be prepared

As always with beta/preview software, you shouldn't install it unless you're fully prepared. This means you should back up any important files, and ideally you should have a separate hard drive/partition to install the Technical Preview on. You cannot revert from Windows 10 Technical Preview to Windows 7 or Windows 8; if you have second thoughts, you will have to reinstall from scratch.

Download the Windows 10 Technical Preview

To begin, head on over to preview.windows.com and join the Windows Insider Program. This only takes a few clicks if you already have a Microsoft account.

You then need to download the appropriate installation file (an ISO) for your system. This is probably the 64-bit (x64) version - though if you have an older system, or you want to test out the 32-bit version, grab the 32-bit download instead. The download will probably take quite a while: the 64-bit ISO comes in at 4GB.

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With the ISO fully downloaded, you then need to transfer it to either a USB thumb drive (preferred) or burn it to a DVD. If you have Windows 8/8.1, burning a DVD is fairly easy - you can do it directly in Explorer. For burning an ISO image to a USB thumb drive, the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool is probably still your best bet.

Once the ISO is transferred to your installation media of choice, reboot your computer and follow the on-screen prompts to install Windows 10 Technical Preview. Do read the next section before you go ahead with the install, though.

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Caveats and other options

Windows 8 running in VirtualBoxAs far as we're aware, you can upgrade your existing Windows 7 or Windows 8/8.1 installation to the Windows 10 Technical Preview. I would advise you to do a clean installation of the Technical Preview, however, on a separate partition or hard drive, in case something messes up. The Technical Preview license expires at the end of April 2015, but another Preview build will be released before then.

Another option is installing Windows 10 Technical Preview in VirtualBox - our instructions for how to do it with Windows 8 should work for Windows 10, but we haven't tested it yet.

We're currently installing Windows 10 and will update this post with more details when we get them. Again, do not proceed unless you know what you're doing: This is a very early build of Windows.
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Originally Posted by ynk1121 View Post

Overall I like what they've done with it. To answer all the questions, you can absolutely use it only creating a local account. No need to unplug Ethernet cables or anything like that either. It's the same as installing 8. When it asks for your MS username and password, click create account, and then towards the bottom click something like "sign in without a Microsoft account". All you have to give it is a name for the local account like on XP. Lets you go right on without any internet crap.
 
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Will be installing on a virtualbox this afternoon, yay.
 
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I almost saw this coming

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Oh lord, like a comedy. I'll give it a go on a VM tonight. I have some research to do. I know this is the tech preview thread, but will Windows 10 be free for Windows 8 users?
 
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Originally Posted by mr soft View Post

lol. What is real ?
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Can someone let us know how it runs? And if they have any problems
 
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Originally Posted by iTurn View Post

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Oh look, another language myth.
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Nah, I know your just being funny lol (as in your teasing).

Well, this might be the OS I get to replace Windows 7, maybe. Depends on the privacy aspects of the OS. Im still quite comfy with my Win 7 + Arch Linux config, it'll take some convincing to get me to move up from win7.
 
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Originally Posted by Thorhian View Post

Oh look, another language myth.
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Nah, I know your just being funny lol (as in your teasing).

Well, this might be the OS I get to replace Windows 7, maybe. Depends on the privacy aspects of the OS. Im still quite comfy with my Win 7 + Arch Linux config, it'll take some convincing to get me to move up from win7.
Funny enough I'm British but type/write American.

I'll be jumping on this ASAP... just need to decide which machine to use this on.
 
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