Best to Upgrade Win 7 or a new installation of Win 10 Pro?

I did pass on the free upgrade to Win 10 last year or so. But now feel it might be best to upgrade from Win 7 to Win 10. At this point in time I would like to do 3 computers. And 2 others after the first of the year. Each has Win 7 Pro (64 bit). Also after reading a lot of the thread, many people are having problems with both ways of going to Win 10. My thought is to purchase 1 Win 10 DVD and then purchase additional keys as needed. Any input would be greatly appreciated.

And I would do all the computers before December 31. There are statements from Microsoft floating around out there that they may stop the free upgrades from Windows 7/8/8.1 to Windows 10 on December 31.

some what confusing...........

• Using the tool to upgrade this PC to Windows 10 (click to show more or less information)
• Using the tool to create installation media (USB flash drive, DVD, or ISO file) to install Windows 10 on a different PC (click to show more or less information)
• Using the media creation tool to re-install Windows 10 Pro for Workstations
• More download options

​I would assume it might be the second choice.

I bought a copy of windows 10 home from Microsoft a couple of weeks ago. I paid them with Paypal.
Microsoft sent me an email with a License number, and a link to click on.
I clicked the link, it took me to Microsofts download tool, before I downloaded it asked me if I wanted to burn win 10 to a disk or usb.
I chose disk. Then download the tool, it downloaded everything to a folder it created on my computer. Then it went thru a check over of the fresh download and OK'd it. That took about 20-30 minutes.
Then it asked me if I wanted to burn it to a disk and clicked yes. It burned it. Thats it, it burns a boot up tool and the OS to the disk, everything is taken care of.

I then put a brand new blank hard drive into my computer along with the disk. Restarted the computer and the dvd player took over and the install was very easy. I have the latest copy of win 10 on a new speedy drive.

I also used that disk to install it on my other older win 7 machines, but I wiped those drives clean so no win 7 files/errors were left.

Hi there
If you currently have W7 do the upgrade so you will get a digital Licence -- then depending on your hardware do a CLEAN install --licence is preserved even if you totally wipe and re-format the HDD/SSD.

BACKUP W7 first though with Macrium or similar.

In some cases it might be worth just doing the upgrade --if you have types of hardware where W10 drivers are non existent the devices might continue to work after the upgrade.

Otherwise a clean install can remove any bloatware etc.
Cheers
jimbo

I just tried to upgrade on my Windows 7 Pro 32bit through the Windows 10 upgrade using the "assistive technologies" and it did not work for some reason. It said it failed after about 45min of downloading and starting the install. I've done this before with another computer and it worked fine.

I also read here that I could do a Clean Install and use my Windows 7 Pro Product Key and it would Activate it after the Clean Install, is this true?

The laptop is also not updating. The updates were broken when I got it and have not fixed it because I was going to install Windows 7 Pro again, but in 64bit. But now I'm thinking it may be better to have Windows 10. I foget how far back the Updates stopped working, would this matter?

Any suggestions, and should I go ahead and start my own thread?

Thanks, FunkMaster