My thanks to all who responded; it appears that it was indeed the Winows
Update service conflicting with the Win10 upgrade process after the
download.


Other notes:


I did several of the regular free updates without incident or
difficulty.


I've now subscribed to the Info Packets newsletter.  It proved useful on
this, and is likely to again.


Someone suggested that the laptop might be approaching the end of its
hard drive's life.  I didn't mention that after the OS upgrade, I plan
to replace the 320GB hard drive with a 500GB SSD, son this shouldn't be
a factor.


  David Gillett
  CISSP CCNP


  -------- Original Message --------
 Subject: [PCBUILD] Windows 10 upgrade taking time
 From: [log in to unmask]
 Date: Fri, August 26, 2016 8:25 pm
 To: [log in to unmask]
 
 I have a laptop that came with Windows 7 Professional 64-bit, which I
 am trying to upgrade to Windows 10 via he Accessability program (Thanks
 fr the tip, Russ!)...
 I had to abort the first atempt after about 12 hours, apparently with
 no harm done. My second attempt has been showing "99% complete" for
 about 72 hours so far. How much longer should I wait for it to
 complete?
 
 David Gillrtt
 
 
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