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No, most of the used machines either have no activated Win10 or have been activated by their owners. In fact, the current machine which I am trying to duplicate was upgraded in place to 1511 pro from either 7 or 8 which resulted in problems with user profiles. I cannot repair it because any such will kill all the customization and bring back the bloat, including Cortana, Edge and all the ridiculous apps.
I usually work with 2 computers and when an old w7 died, I wanted to replace it with an identical machine with the exact same config as the 1511 one. I would do a clean install of 1511 and duplicate all the customization on the new computer (I can't restore from its backup because of the corruption). Then I would back it up and restore it to the corrupted computer and voila: 2 identical systems running customized 1511.
Because of MS's atrocious campaign of forced upgrades to the latest version, It was reasonable to be concerned that they may not allow an install of an earlier version on a machine with a later version. So I asked what people knew about this. This was my main issue.