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TL;DR: The Windows 10 upgrade icon went missing. How do I get it back in order to update my system? I am running Windows 7 SP1.

I woke up this morning... er, noon all excited about Windows 10. I had reserved my copy using the clever little icon in the taskbar a few weeks back, so I thought I would be set to go. I booted my computer and checked the icon to see if it would download the update. It still behaved the same as if Windows 10 wasn't launched yet. I supposed this was normal behaviour. After all, Microsoft can't roll out the update to everyone at once.

Windows Update did want me to install several updates though. I installed KB2952664, KB3064209 and KB3048761. Everything went fine, and I was prompted to restart my system.

After restarting, the icon wasn't there anymore. I tried a lot of solutions including the answers provided by our awesome community on this question, and the answer provided to this question posted on the Microsoft Windows support forums.

How do I get the icon back in order to update my system?

UPDATES:

  • Installing from the Media Creation Tool does not working with an error "Something Happened" with as description "Something Happened". Both are translated from Dutch.
  • I tried to install it from the Media Creation Tool using PowerISO to mount the created ISO. It will not accept my product key, even though I am able to verify my Windows installation is already registered and the product key is correct.
  • I looked into the Event Log, and GWX-Ins has a bunch of error messages saying: Error message: GWX Main: App failed to start hresult. After that it says what is roughly translated to English as "Cannot find the element".
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Jeroen
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I managed to install Windows 10 by using this tool by Microsoft, and creating a bootable medium.

When you need to select your version of Windows 10, do not select the N version and make sure the language matches.

Jeroen
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Your notification will reappear eventually, but it may not be today, or tomorrow, or the next day...

I came across this announcement today when I viewed this old Windows 8 forum post, and I dare say it is showing in various other places:

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The icon disapered for me too but i did find a solution. On the update windows in parameter you should see a link "more detail" or something like that. When you click on it you should see the windows 10 update in grey, then clicked on the "detail" link on the right and you will be able to launch the update by choosing executing from desktop.

P.S : this was possible on my 8.1 Pro N but not on my 8.1 Home N. Don't know why.

Sir_Glancelot_du_Lag
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The process of this upgrade program is GWX.exe. I suggest that you try fire it up. Open
C:\Windows\System32\GWX and run GWX.exe (try as administrator if that doesn't do the trick).

C:\Windows\System32\GWX

Nadav S.
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