Frequently Asked Questions about the Windows 10 Free upgrade

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  1. Posts : 44
    Win10 Pro 2004
       #271

    CountMike said:
    It surely should apply to retail W10 bought now but it doesn't seem to apply to free upgrade. There's still time for MS to change that. There are rumors about MS extending deadline for free upgrades.
    I hope the extension is a long one. I've just rebuilt my system and won't be doing so again for a while
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  2. Posts : 19,516
    W11+W11 Developer Insider + Linux
       #272

    arnoldh said:
    I hope the extension is a long one. I've just rebuilt my system and won't be doing so again for a while
    My main computer got updated last month as far as I need for in next few years. An old laptop can't go further than XP and secondary I'm going to build very soon is going to Linux(s).
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  3. Posts : 29,078
    Windows 10 21H1 Build 19043.1023
       #273

    CountMike said:
    It surely should apply to retail W10 bought now but it doesn't seem to apply to free upgrade. There's still time for MS to change that. There are rumors about MS extending deadline for free upgrades.
    Most of what I've seen, Mike, is wishful thinking on the upgrade extension. Not that it would bother me one way or the other, since since this dual boot system has been upgraded from Windows 8.1 Pro to Windows 10 Pro and has Build 14257 on the second partition.

    BTW, it seems I got lucky and hit the "loophole" that doesn't require me to have a prior Win 7 or 8.1 in order to install Windows 10 Pro on this machine; however, I'm one of those who just has to be squeaky clean (or I just know someone will catch me), so I used my 8.1 Pro to upgrade to Win 10 Pro.
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  4. Posts : 1,983
    Windows 10 x86 14383 Insider Pro and Core 10240
       #274

    If you have been an insider and have stopped at builds 10240 or 10586, your digital entitlement would seem to be secure, but what if you have upgraded past these to an insider build with a time limited license that has expired, or your insider build is short of 10240, and expired - does your one time digital entitlement still exist? Will it exist past July 30 2016?
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  5. Posts : 29,078
    Windows 10 21H1 Build 19043.1023
       #275

    Fafhrd said:
    If you have been an insider and have stopped at builds 10240 or 10586, your digital entitlement would seem to be secure, but what if you have upgraded past these to an insider build with a time limited license that has expired, or your insider build is short of 10240, and expired - does your one time digital entitlement still exist? Will it exist past July 30 2016?
    It's my understanding that once you've upgraded from Windows 7 or 8.1, your computer will always be "digitally entitled". I would think that all you'd have to do is reinstall from Build 10586 (media creation tool?) and you'd be good to go.

    IIRC, we're told that if we stop being Insiders, we will need to uninstall any Insider builds.
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  6. Posts : 1,983
    Windows 10 x86 14383 Insider Pro and Core 10240
       #276

    I've no plans to stop Insidering, just not on my main daily machine. Talking about Defender, earlier today, it decided, unbeknownst to me, that Word was infected with a trojan, and gave its peremptory notification: Found some Malware - Windows Defender is removing it. I couldn't find any mention of this in Defender, but then it dawned on me... ...where did Word go with the document I was working on, and when I could not find it in the Office folder, only then did I get a second notification, exactly the same as the first. Only then in Defender, could I trace a quarantined file, and restore it - Word of course! - and it's been running ever since with no squeak of it's malign intentions. I may just go back to Baidu Antivirus - at least it gives you the chance to quarantine or remove the offender before it tells you that your wife is a witch and she was burned at dawn. Normally I wouldn't mind that, but it's much nicer to be asked first.
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  7. Posts : 29,078
    Windows 10 21H1 Build 19043.1023
       #277

    Fafhrd said:
    I've no plans to stop Insidering, just not on my main daily machine. Talking about Defender, earlier today, it decided, unbeknownst to me, that Word was infected with a trojan, and gave its peremptory notification: Found some Malware - Windows Defender is removing it. I couldn't find any mention of this in Defender, but then it dawned on me... ...where did Word go with the document I was working on, and when I could not find it in the Office folder, only then did I get a second notification, exactly the same as the first. Only then in Defender, could I trace a quarantined file, and restore it - Word of course! - and it's been running ever since with no squeak of it's malign intentions. I may just go back to Baidu Antivirus - at least it gives you the chance to quarantine or remove the offender before it tells you that your wife is a witch and she was burned at dawn. Normally I wouldn't mind that, but it's much nicer to be asked first.
    Yeah, that beta of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware decided my Office 365 2016 update was malware and quarantined it. I couldn't find it anywhere on my computer; it was just gone . . .

    That's one beta that will no longer reside on my testbed!
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  8. Posts : 7,128
    Windows 10 Pro Insider
       #278

    Wynona said:
    Yeah, that beta of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware decided my Office 365 2016 update was malware and quarantined it. I couldn't find it anywhere on my computer; it was just gone . . .

    That's one beta that will no longer reside on my testbed!

    Are you sure it wasn't Malwarebytes Anti-Ransomware? The anti-ransomware wiped-out my Office 365.
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  9. Posts : 29,078
    Windows 10 21H1 Build 19043.1023
       #279

    Winuser said:
    Are you sure it wasn't Malwarebytes Anti-Ransomware? The anti-ransomware wiped-out my Office 365.
    Whatever it was, I'm never going to put anything Malwarebytes on my computer again! It's that simple. Once burned, I don't go back for seconds.
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  10. Posts : 7,128
    Windows 10 Pro Insider
       #280

    Wynona said:
    Whatever it was, I'm never going to put anything Malwarebytes on my computer again! It's that simple. Once burned, I don't go back for seconds.

    I don't know why you feel you got burnt. It is a beta and the whole idea of the beta releases is for us to test. It wiped out my Office 365 but I will try it again after a few more updates.
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