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From all the messages it appears that one cannot upgrade from 32-bit Windows 7 to 64-bit Windows 10 for free. Thank you everyone.
Not directly for free, if you don't have a copy that could be legally installed you would have to buy Win7 64-bit or Win8.1 64-bit and install then you can get Win10 for free until July 28, 2016. Downside is that one can't convert from 32-bit to 64-bit or other way around, has to be a clean install, wipe the HDD losing everything so back up all you created or that exists nowhere else first. Or wait until retailers have Win10 available.
Please be aware that if you've already upgraded to Windows 10 and it's showing that "Windows is activated", you should have no problem with installing and activating 64-bit Windows 10 on the same machine. Due to architecture limitations, you must do a clean install of Windows 10 64-bit to get a working 64-bit OS on your system...
No one said anything about moving anything! Go back and reread what I was pointing out. That was that some people around here are under the impression that once 10 is activated on one machine you can take the same installation media to another machine and see 10 activated there which won't happen. I even put that to the test to simply confirm the obvious fact.
And the clean install on the second remote 7 Pro mini tower did activate! That is right after upgrading over the 7 Pro install where that was found activated upon first look in the Settings I immediately rebooted into the day older clean install and found that activated. From there I can opt to revert the upgrade back to 7 or simply nuke the second primary extend the first back where it was originally and see a full clean install of 10 replace 7 entirely.
The smart move is to opt to save the 64bit 10 download to a folder in ISO form and then go back a second time to see the flash drive or dvd option used to create the media. Or you can opt to use a 3rd party program like the free trial version of UltraISO for example to make up the media with that. Here I downloaded both editions in both flavors first seeing to the 64bit as well as the combo for Pro. Later I went after the two for the Home edition for a few 8 laptops I may have to upgrade sooner or later.
The one thing to note about going back more then once however is the message you can run into saying you have to restart the system. When going to run the tool now hopefully on another non 10 machine first right click on the MC tool and select the "run as admin" option.
When buying the upgrade or retail media for previous editions you would find both the 32bit and 64bit upgrade or full install dvds included in the package. Likewise you can download the 64bit iso and opt to create the installation media or let it download to a folder of choice for installation at a later time if opting to use a 3rd party to make up the media. From there a simple reformat will see the 64bit go on clean and activate.