Windows 10 help

[Sean_87]

Hey, I was gonna upgrade to windows 10 via the Microsoft site using the accessibility version, I was wondering if the windows.old folder could be used to get all my files into the windows 10, drivers etc included without a bother or hassle, is this possible? I don't really know what drivers etc I'd need if not because I have an alienware and unsure. I seen something called PC Mover and said it does this its self, is this okay to use.. Thanks!

 

[Colif]

if you upgrade to win 10, it will check online once installed and likely get drivers for all your hardware, its pretty good like that.

Not sure what files you after out of windows.old as all it includes is windows files from your previous install of Windows, all of your files will still be on the PC where you left them.

PC mover seems to be for moving files to a new PC, not upgrading.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Video driver is usually the only driver that may need updated.

 

[pcproblemguy]

if you upgrade to win 10, it will check online once installed and likely get drivers for all your hardware, its pretty good like that.

Not sure what files you after out of windows.old as all it includes is windows files from your previous install of Windows, all of your files will still be on the PC where you left them.

PC mover seems to be for moving files to a new PC, not upgrading.

Does this mean all his games etc will still be installed? Does he just need to drag n drop files like the Steam.exe out of it? How does it work?

 

[Colif]

If he upgrades then all files will still be in place. The upgrade leavers everything in place, so if he has steam working before it will work after.

Steam games are special anyway as if he installed the client afterwards and still had the games folder from previous install, he can direct steams library location to the old folder and the client would find them all and he wouldn't need to reinstall any.

If he choose to upgrade and not keep files, then nothing will be kept. I assumed he wasn't doing that.