How to force Windows (7, 8.1) to download the Windows 10 update files

Are you still seeing "OK, notify me when ready!" in your Windows Update app despite all your friends already getting the download? Here's a solution to get you around that.

Files to delete are here: C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download

[cven]

Nothing happens it just keeps looking for updates..

[birdbrad]

I did all this but it just hung on check for updates

[Hawk]

Hi I tried to update and I wasn't able to get windows 10 to load. I'm trying this from windows 7 with only half of the windows 7 updates installed. If you have to go back to install windows 7 from scratch it takes about 2 days to get to the windows 10 load. help Can I do a full drive mirror image of my drive after installing window 10?

[simtan]

i did exactly what you did at 0:52 and it says The application what unable to start correctly [Bunch of numbers and letters]. Click OK to close the application. Can someone help me?

[Jhedan]

Win 7x64 here, nothing happens. Tried it for a couple times but nothing, nada, the upgrade icon is still there and it still says "OK, notify me when ready"

[zendrith]

I've done everything in the video, it even did the downloading windows 10 thing. what i'm confused about is that windows isn't giving me a option to do the install for windows 10. should i do this over again or what?

[volear]

i have a problem that when i click upgrade now it shows "starting download" and then the window close for no reason.

[InariOmeteotl]

I've just used that command to force the install and at the beginning it worked but, the stupid internet connection crashed down and it couldn't install well. Later on I've tried to repeat the command and everything but it didn't worked after this.

What should I do? Thanks.

[jbpbwbf]

I have a problem with downloading it normally, it says "idisplay driver WDDM 1.1" is blocking or something like that. Will i be able to download win10 and install it without problems?

[ziny]

i need help my windows 10 is ready for update but when i click restart now on windows update my pc will restart but it wont install the update

[marekdzioba]

My upgrade is ready to instal and i dont want windows 10. What should I do?? I cant click "check for update" and i cant see the details. HELP!!!!

[omarcheesiano]

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Good freakin' work !

[Sonobv]

my OS is windows 8. up to this day im not receiving any updates for 8.1.
especially 10.
im just wondering if i can still update this? VentureBeat

[Chahal]

dude mine says restart to download some important files and it says save any open files idk understand what that means i'm dumb at this stuff so please explain i restarted it nothing happens and it won't let me check for updates

[ryanw]

Doesn't work for me, just shows few regular updates. I am going to try applying the updates and trying again.
Windows 7 Pro (64bit)

[Zangano]

Mine does nothing.. It just says "there are no available updates".. All my other computers already downloaded Win 10, but mine only has the "reserved" icon but no download yet.

[alexgil]

Ok so i did this process and it says downloading 26 updates but it doesnt say windows 10 but it did change to downloading updates.

[kimbok]

It didn't work for me, and I've tried it a number of times (many more than 3!).  I have Win 7 Professional 64bit at SP1.

Win update _used_ to show me the Win10 logo saying that Win 10 is not ready for my PC yet, but that disappeared a week or so ago to be replaced by the standard Win7 "Windows is up to date".

When I click to check for updates and then fire off the wuauclt.exe /updatenow, win update is still checking... but returns that "Windows is up to date".  Nothing changes.  I don't get any errors... it just doesn't work.  Yes, I'm running cmd as administrator. Win update just puts 4 files back into my SoftwareDistribution/download folder.

[mrmandagsexemplarx]

I might have the solution. I am using Win 7 and when i searched for cmd (and choose run as administrator) and pressed enter this trick didn't work. BUT when I took the "long way" it worked. Start -> All programs -> Accessories -> Command Prompt (choose run as administrator).
cmd and Command Prompt don´t seems to work the same way. Hopefully this little change will work for more than me.

[khu]

i get the update but is not window10 icon, that just show me 153 updates and it is about 2 gb+ update