10 minutes to download 3.8GB? What's the world coming to.

(hug)

The dedicated server is definitely one of my better investments. Well worth the £30something it costs per year.

I bet it still doesn't work for you though.

Probably not, my laptop is cursed. But at least I get to go 'ooooh' at getting these sorts of speeds over my shitty wifi :D

Closed the media creater tool, and the download's jumped up to 6.5 MB/second. </geek>

All working!

I'm still amazed at how quickly things go these days. Not so long ago reinstalling windows was a good couple of hours or so, and then god knows howlong downloaiding updates on a shitty slow connection. 

Now it's less than 15 minutes using a USB 3 memory stick, an SSD and my stupid-fast broadband and I'm all setup, updated, Chrome installed (and synced to my previous settings/extensions). And now I can change my desktop picture!!?!!!!":"111

I knew downloading the ISO when I didn't really need it would come in handy.

for future ref, my bike has gears and unetbootin have a download for Windows and Linux too :)

As I discovered. That'll teach me to ignore hipster mac users!

You were doing this on a fucking battery? WTF?

 (erm)

And download the ISO.

It's one of the many benefits of a laptop, it can run on batteries. Just not my laptop, as it turns out :C

Get Rufus. It's really easy to make a bootable Windows USB drive with it.

I got the hipster boys one and it was pretty straight forward: point it at iso, point it at USB stick, done.

I've recently fixed to Windows 7 computers and they took aaaaaaaaages to complete all the updates. The install was quick both times (twice on the last one - I reinstalled Win7 with the Aldi recovery partition, switched the computer off, plugged the HDD into mine to copy the stuff back and when i plugged it back in the drive was completely empty) but the updates needed lots of reboots and time.

Aldi?

Maybe Lidl.

 :'-D 

Definitely Aldi. I'm just dropping it back off to him now.

It is a Medion computer from Aldi.

Home now, thought my laptop might want to upgrade itself but apparently not. I left it downloading the files over night and it doesn't seem to have finished it. I ran the setup.exe and it says boot.win is not there.

If you haven't already, you may want to go into PC Settings -> Privacy and explore the umpteen pages of options that are enabled by default to leach your data back to Microsoft and its advertisers. I did the 'custom options' install where I declined their offers to track me, but most of the stuff in Privacy was still switched on.

There's also a feature in Windows Update that uses the Win 10 install base as a bit-torrent swarm, and redistributes downloaded updates. I don't have an issue with that idea in principle, but as my upload is limited (if I go over my upload limit my download speed get's capped) it would have been nice for MS to mention it somewhere other than page 9,374,249 of the EULA.