[GTALUG] update to Win 10, a war story

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>

| On Sat, Apr 09, 2016 at 11:23:10AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
| > I just solved the problem.  I had installed an extra 8G of RAM in the
| > machine.  Once I removed it, Windows was happy to update.

| I noticed that Windows sets aside 2 x RAM for Page File (swapfile).
| Does that mean your machine was setting aside 16G swapfile?

I think something like that must be going on.  But not exactly.  When
I found the swap file size (at rest, without running the Win10 update
program), it was miniscule.

| From: James Knott <james.knott at rogers.com>

| I had similar when updating¹ the W10 version in a virtual machine on my
| notebook computer.  The update failed for no apparent reason.  Also,
| this was a W10 to W10 update.  Putting more memory in the computer
| worked for me too.

But my problem was the opposite: I had to REMOVE RAM to make the
update work.