Why can't I receive the Windows 10 icon on my task bar?

[Windows Central Question]

i can not receive windows 10 icon in my task bar

still i do not know that window 10 installed or not

 

[Czesky]

Try any of these fixes - worked for me. Start it as an administrator.

- https://content.uploady.com/downloa...02&h=e4e2597b0db366be40df452a0cc40d53e243538e

- http://download.windowsupdate.com/d..._d6308e28c41fcbd15695343d83709ed1c4bf5812.msu

 

[Black3ternity]

Thanks but no thanks.
The "patcher" will do nothing and the windows update is not applicable on my machine.
The usual suspects KB30xxx and KB29xxx are present on my Windows 8.1 Pro (x64) machine. No "Get Windows 10 App" present. All requirements are met. Nothing happens. I think it's the fault of being tagged as "Windows Insider" and thus, the update process gets killed from your account.

But no info on how to upgrade properly.

Kind regards,

 

[Dewg]

One of the biggest reasons, that no one seems to mention in articles, is that it will not offer you the upgrade icon if you're joined to a domain. This mostly effects business PCs, but also affects those on home servers.

 

[Steve0326]

I had the same issue, I just ran Windows Updates until there were no more updates available, and then restarted my PC and it was there.

 

[David Feifer]

I would try running one of the scripts that you can find on like threads on this site. I had the same issue with 2 of my systems and it ended up be a registry key that was missed during the original kb installation. Probably why some of the answers say to remove and reinstall the update.