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.

I think I quite like 10, it's definitely an improvement on 8/8.1, and I'm pretty sure it's a lot better than 7 too. Not overly-keen with the intrusiveness of it, but with all the tracking stuff turned off I think it should be OK. If MS push things much more in that direction I think I'd be about ready to quit windows all together, tbh. But in terms of interface and speed,  it's definitely a winner for me.

My laptop still refuses to reliably hibernate, though (first discovered on the day it came from the courier, manufacturer refused to acknowledge it as a fault) so at least I now know that it's not a Windows issue, but a hardware/driver issue. Power management driver perhaps? Who knows!

Got mine updated Thursday night. Haven't had much of of a play with it yet. My laptop actually hibernates (or rather resumes) better than it did before. The Intel grpahics driver did some stupid stuff when resuming in Win8 (7 worked fine). The display would go blank, come back for a bit, disappear, do that a few times and finally get to the desktop after a while.

Might have a play with it later (YJ) after changing the PCV hose on Sian's Mondeo. A split rubber hose that needs the inlet manifold removing to change it. Some of the bolts are impossible to get to. Grrrrr.