Cheapest Way To Upgrade Vista To Win 10 Home With Legitimate Key?

Chris Nicola said:

I have two old Vista 32 bit Laptops that I would like to upgrade to Win 10 home...

FreeBooter said:

You can't upgrade Windows Vista to Windows 10...

No, you can't. You can however upgrade Vista to Windows 7 keeping installed files and apps, and from there you could upgrade to Windows 10. In order to upgrade from W7 to W10 the W7 has to be activated, so you'd need a legitimate W7 key. The activated W7 would then entitle you to an activated W10.

In fact, you can upgrade XP to Vista, and I have done the whole round trip from XP to W10 in a VM to retain use of some licenced software installed on an old XP machine of mine. The PC died long ago, but I still had the HDD and restored a Macrium image of it to a VM.

This link has a method to upgrade Vista to Windows 10 :
How to upgrade Windows Vista to Windows 10 | Windows Central

Thanks for the links Ignatzatsonic, I will check them out.

Mergahertz, thanks for your reply. You are right that 2Gbt on an old machine running Win 10 will hit performance. Anyway I can test Win 32 bit before I purchase the licence. One of the laptops belongs to a friend who needs Win 10 to run some programmes that will not run on Vista or Linux. I am only interested in using a genuine licence.

Thanks for the suggestion Bree to use Win 7 as a stepping stone from Vista to Win 10.


Berton, where did you see the 3 Family Pack version of Win7 Upgrade Home Premium? I wonder if they can ship to Europe?


Zbook, thanks for the link. I will check it out.


Thank you all for your comments.


Kind regards
Chris

Chris Nicola said:

Thank you FreeBooter and Dalchina for your advice. I agree it would be a good idea to test Win 10 before buying a licence. I think it will run.

Does anyone know where to find the legitimate offer for Win 10 offer for under $40?

Kind regards
Chris

Computeractive Software Store - Windows 10 Professional - 80% off RRP

change it to your currency at checkout

If it's sounds to good to real it probably isn't.

For any license ask if there is or is not a temporary activation requiring a renewal or whether it's a permanent activton.