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Is the free upgrade from W7 to W10 still in place?
I see the last posts in the upgrade forum were in 2020. Is the upgrade still available?
Thanks
Is the free upgrade from W7 to W10 still in place?
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Of course. Absolutely.
Download Media Creation Tool
https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=691209
Do you want to upgrade your Windows 7 (in situ) ? Or do a clean install of Windows 10 (absolutely, highly recommended as the best option).
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The slowing down of posts is not surprising. There are probably not many Win7 machines left that have never tried the upgrade to Win10*. Once upgraded they would have a digital licence for life, even if they went back to W7 later. Most that would want to upgrade to W10 would have done so by now, and the die-hard W7 brigade will never even try.
No one has reported (here or anywhere else I can find) that an upgrade from an activated W7/W8 to W10 no longer works and activates with a digital licence for W10.
Here are some more recent reports of a successful upgrade...
"I upgraded from Windows 8 at the end of January..".
07 Feb 2021 "...recently upgraded our 4 home computers from 7 (Prof) to 10; two by the automatic free upgrade, with no probs"
* I know of at least two W7 machines that are still 'W10 virgins'. I own them and have set them to one side so I can test if/when the free upgrade is ever reported as having stopped
Last edited by Bree; 12 Mar 2021 at 07:30.
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Well, that was a great response! I'm used to waiting a day or two on other forums...
@ idgat Why the emphasis on the clean install? Does the in-place path have problems? Never mind the hassles of re-installing all my programs, just finding the media / install files would be an exercise in itself!
@ Bree 'Most that would want to upgrade to W10 would have done so by now, and the die-hard W7 brigade will never even try.'
Count me among the die-hards. I have the W7 machine, a Vista laptop, an XP laptop, an XP desktop, and two W2k desktops (one of which blew its p/s a few weeks ago. And somewhere there is a DOS machine.
Thank you all. (idgat, I'd really like to hear your reasons...)
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The reason for doing a clean install...
1. Clean fresh drivers
2. Leave any problems Win 7 had, behind
3. Win 10 in general, runs much better after a clean install
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Another option is to:
- Upgrade Windows 7 to Windows 10
- Let it activate with a digital license
- Do a clean install of Windows 10
- Windows 10 will self activate with the digital license already on the servers
The reason someone might want to do this way is they don't know the key to Windows 7 so they won't have it to activate Windows 10 if they start with a clean install of Windows 10.
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