On Thu, 2/13/2025 8:31 AM, John C. wrote:
I'm working on another computer right now (God help me) for a relative.
I see a thing called the "Windows 10 Upgrade Assistant tool" installed
on it. Is this thing absolutely necessary to have installed on a system?
Also, there's a huge folder named c:\windows10upgrade on the main drive,
and from what I understand it's created by the Windows 10 Upgrade
Assistant tool. Since the computer has a tiny 128gb SSD, it would be
nice to be able to get rid of that folder.
TIA
It's from around the year 2016.
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/86213-how-delete-windows10upgrade-folder-windows-10-a.html
Remember, that the upgrade method was developed slowly, over a period of years, to the thing it is today. Today, it can do a rollback after the last stage.
It used to be able to break in the last phase, leaving people in a lurch.
Since it is a program install, tell it to uninstall, then
see if the space was returned to you after program uninstall.
*******
Run "winver.exe" to get some idea when their Windows Updates broke.
With my Optiplex 780 experiment, the ability to upgrade, sort of
stopped at 21H2, due to the built-in iGPU. It's possible a lot
of machines will make it all the way to 21H2, and a few of them
will roll back (annoying the hell out of you) if going for 22H2.
22H2 may not work based on the video card driver (XDDM or WDDM).
A WDDM 1.1 video card might be sufficient to finish 22H2.
The "dxdiag" utility, one of the tabs will tell you the current
driver API (WDDM 3.1 maybe) if the card is a bit modern. If it reads
XDDM, then the hardware is likely mellow older stuff. It could work
with 21H2, and that might be it. Maybe an FX5200 from NVidia
wold have an XDDM driver (the FX5200 used to do 1024x768 and run the
Microsoft Basic Display Adapter, as there didn't seem to be a driver
good enough for Win10).
Paul
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