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looks like Microsoft finally has an ending date
"The accessibility upgrade offer expires on January 16, 2018."
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/accessibility/windows10upgrade
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heads up. It looks like they are loosey goosey with the win 10 upgrade requirements. I got a call from a friend of mine today in a tizzy cuz his home made PC had a hard drive crash, and his backup is...
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OK, I see the where our miscommunication is happening here. I read this " Upgraded the PC to Win10, using ISO from Microsoft" and thought you used a Win 10 ISO to install instead of a win 10 web...
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Yes, you can go back to Windows 7. The Dell recovery disc does not contact Microsoft.
Dell Recovery disc uses what's called a VLK, or Volume License Key. There is no way of invalidating it unless...
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I did NOT do a clean install of Win10. I did an in place upgrade from Win7 to Win10. Win10 did not auto activate. So you're saying it should have auto activated? It did not in my case. I had to...
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YOU DO NOT NEED TO KNOW THE DELL OEM KEY AT ALL TO DO A WIN 10 UPGRADE.
the dell download ISO auto activated because it uses the same OEM key that Dell uses on millions of PCs. It acts just like a...
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I wish I could get my hands on Win10 Education. I'm an alumni, have an edu account, but unfortunately they don't make Win10 Education available to alumni.
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So you're saying I could have used the 7 OEM key on the Win10 activation?
What is the OEM key? Is that the key shown on Win7 when using an app like ShowKeyPlus (which shows the product key on the...
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You might not even need to do this assistive technologies thing. If your PC came with Windows 8 preinstalled on the BIOS you can download Windows 10 and it will just activate. I guess the free...
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By installing a clean 10 without upgrading from within 7, it required a valid 7 key from your COA. I would have upgraded from within a activated 7, with generic OEM key, not COA key, to get the...
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Just a reminder that if u have a .edu acct, there's no need for a mad rush to meet this deadline coz u don't need a Win 7/8.1 device for Windows 10 Education version which has more features than Home...
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Thanks, I've been following your comments.
Bought a used Dell PC off eBay w/ a Win7 COA. No OS.
Installed Win7 from Dell ISO (download via Dell OS Recovery Tool).
Win7 activated...
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If you are just manually entering the Dell OEM key, I'm talking about the key the factory uses, not the COA key which is unique, it must be used with the correct certificate. A factory restore disk...
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It does not disable your windows 7 key
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thanks for your reply. So the process doesn't ask on which drive you want to put your new w10 files when it extracts?
if no, then Ill do the way you've suggested will put first 7, activate it...
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If it is an OEM PC with Win 7, just use the same key the factory uses on all of the computers on the assembly line. This is why the OEM win 7 restore disks work on all of a particular OEM machines....
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Im on 7 just bought an SSD and want to install 10 to it but I don't want to touch my 7.
Someone suggested me that I can "phish" my 7's product key and do a clean install 10 and activate with 7's...
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can I buy a refurbished Lenovo PC off eBay or lenovo like this and upgrade to windows 10 through this?
http://www.ebay.com/i/222476071180
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Just converted an old tower PC Windows 7 -> Windows 10. Was surprised how smoothly it went. A few driver quirks but that's due to 9-10 year old hardware that is no longer supported. Easily worked...
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just spend the entire week messing with my computer. upgraded to win 10, computer crashes every few hrs. got tired of that, so i re-installed win 7 but i couldn't activate it because the key was...
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