Sometimes you can’t win for losin’.
Many Windows 7 and 8.1 users have put off upgrading to Windows 10 — often for good reason. Some, though, have given in to the pressure, and they’re trying to get the free upgrade in before Friday’s deadline. And some of those folks are hitting a well-known problem: The upgrade installer stalls at 99 percent.
Faced with an impending deadline, many are loath to follow Microsoft’s official instructions, delivered by Microsoft engineer and Answers Forum moderator Arvind Ram last week.