W7 or W10

[Tippon]

I started the process of updating Ellen’s laptop from 7 to 10, and found a link saying that if you enter a Win 7 key either during the Win 10 installation, or on the activation screen later, it will activate. I haven’t had a chance to test it yet, as she’s taking ages to figure out what she wants to keep from the old drive…

[Mark Turner]

Tippon

Would it not be better to do a win 10 upgrade as mentioned above and see if it automatically registers which seems to work ” I did the daughters boyfriends old win 8.1 machine last week upgraded it said 10 was registered then did a clean install you could upgrade see if it registers then back up what you need then do a clean install ” you will find out if the 7 key installed on the laptop works that way.

[Tippon]

If I was doing a straight upgrade, then yeah, but I’ve bought her an SSD too. The original plan was to do a clean install onto the SSD with a cheap ebay key, then let her get used to Win 10 slowly. I had the first key refuse to activate, so the seller sent a new one, and that wouldn’t activate either. I’m hoping that it’s something to do with the laptop previously being upgraded from Vista to 7, and using the 7 key will let the 10 upgrade go through.

It’s been about a month so far and I still can’t get her to tell me what she wants transferred >.<

[Wheels-Of-Fire]

That will work. Since the W10 creators update it accepts W7 retail keys

 

[Wheels-Of-Fire]

It is only when you try to transfer your retail licence to a new machine that you have to ring MS 😁

[The Duke]

I installed 10 on an 8 laptop yesterday and it activated automatically. Not sure how or why, but it worked.

[Wheels-Of-Fire]

Well thats the thing. MS will have had the hardware registered under W8. So far they are still letting people who had 7 or 8 machines upgrade to W10.

If you build a new machine and have a windows retail licence you will still need to call MS 🙄

[Wheels-Of-Fire]

Oh yes, that will transfer the licence to the new hardware and invalidate the old 😆

[The Duke]

Is the windows assistance loop hole still avalible? I used that a ton of times a few years back. As I class reliance on spell checker as ‘assistance’.

[Wheels-Of-Fire]

I don’t know but Microsoft really do want everyone on W10.

[The Duke]

Of corse they do, and so should the whole Internet. As older compromised Windows is a theat to all. Well all pc users.

Android has to be running the most traffic on the net now.

[Mark Turner]

I did a win 8 laptop today my brother has had it stashed away for a few years did the upgrade it registered straight away. Followed that by a clean install and all is fine. I’ve not had a lot of dealings with 8 then I get 2 in a week both upgraded and registered straight away.

[Wheels-Of-Fire]

Not surprised Mark. MS will have the hardware registered, like it or not

[Mark Turner]

@Graham a free upgrade is always good even though the keys are cheap on the bay

[Wheels-Of-Fire]

Seems to be the mobo serial number that does the trick

[Wheels-Of-Fire]

And that will be found by the SMBIOS I already have a bee in my bonnet about 😁

[JayCeeDee]

Interesting new option from MS – the opportunity in future to re-install W10 off the cloud. It just came in to my Windows Insider Inbox  – thought I’d opted out of that!!

 

“A faster, easier way to reset your PC.
Running into trouble and need to re-install Windows? Instead of creating a USB stick with installation media, you can now download Windows directly from the cloud. No USB required!”

 

[Ed P]

Tippon don’t forget there are some cpu/gpu gotchas which make Win10 impossible for machines in the Vista and earlier era.

[Wheels-Of-Fire]

Thats not actually totally new JCD. For quite a while now the Media Creation Tool has had an option to create installation media or to just reinstall Windows from the latest online immage, odd ah ?

[Tippon]

Ed P wrote:

Tippon don’t forget there are some cpu/gpu gotchas which make Win10 impossible for machines in the Vista and earlier era.

Wouldn’t that stop it from installing rather than activating though? It’s installed correctly, other than I think two drivers, but it wouldn’t activate with a 10 key.

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