Free W10 upgrade

AddRAM said:

Ha, did you see the Eagle jump on to the pitchers shoulder before the Mariners/Twins home opener ?

Bald eagle lands on Seattle Mariners pitcher James Paxton during national anthem | Lexington Herald Leader

LOL yeah I saw that .

slicendice said:

Yes, install W7 and make sure it's activated. Once verified, you can upgrade to W10. The license will transfer and no keys are needed. When installing/upgrading Windows 10, I highly recommend skipping the "Use Microsoft account to sign in to his PC" and rather use a local account. This makes managing the system a lot easier.

Once you have Windows 10 installed and activated, connect it to an MS account by opening any Microsoft App and answering YES when Windows asks if you want to let all Apps use the account. Once all this is done the Activation status will change to "Windows is activated with a digital license linked to your Microsoft account"


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If you ever need to clean install the PC, now, because your MS account contains a digital license, you won't have to enter any keys anywhere ever again. Just connect the PC to your MS account and it will automagically activate.

Thank you slicedice and others for your good advice, but a miracle has happened, I was about to restore it back to W7, had my ISO ready, but then decided to check settings and ..... Windows is activated with digital license.

-BBDS

Didn't Microsoft only offer free upgrades from Windows 7 Ultimate to Windows 10 Pro for a short period of time and then stopped it?

I had registered my interest in the free upgrade from W7Ux64 to W10Px64 before it was released and I upgraded after the time period had expired. I was on the phone to MS for over an hour as they kept telling me that I was no longer eligible for it, then the bloke spoke to his supervisor and low and behold his supervisor told him to allow me to activate. I was instructed to download the Windows 10 Setup installer package or MediaCreationTool from a URL they gave me. The version of that setup was 10.0.14393.0.

I have an Acer Aspire One AO533 Intel Atom N455 circa 09/10 with Win7 Starter and a couple of weeks ago I attempted an upgrade using the Win7 Starter keys and the Upgrade proceeded without any problems and upgraded it to Win10 Home 32. I just replaced the HHD to a WD 3D NAND 1TB and did a clean install without keys and it activated. I also have a purchased 32/64 Home,Pro,Education key and for the heck of it tried Pro and Home 64 bit with my RAM maxed out at 2GB and it is about the same slothyness as 32 Home so I left the 64 in and presently am dual booting 7&10. It took me this long to upgrade because I felt 10 would be too demanding on this little Atombomb Netbook and even now the Win 7 keys still worked. Realistically Win10S might be better but I don't know due to difficulties getting it!