I feel your pain. I upgraded the Wife's PC from 7 to 10, created restore media and replaced the HD with an SSD. Unfortunately the restore media would not work, probably because the replacement drive...

Thank you for the suggestions. I had tried the registry modification previously and it did not work. I upgraded to 10240 via the ISO image and that worked. I had thought about trying that but was...

One of my VMs is at 10074 and seems not to want to update. Last week I looked into this and saw that I needed to log in using my Microsoft login. I did that and it seems not to matter. My other VM...

Hi DeeX,
Was your "clean install" on the same disk drive or a replacement? In my case I upgraded from Windows 7 to 10 and activated without problem. Next I installed Windows 10 on a new drive (after...

Hi DeeX,
Thanks for the reply. It seems entirely possible that the support person I spoke with provided inaccurate information. What is the best way to get in touch with someone at MS who can...

Hi NavyLCDR,
I guess I should qualify my comment and say that this is what happened to me and that is what Microsoft told me when I asked.

It is possible that something else I did caused the...

One important point is that to replace a hard drive once the system has been upgraded to Windows 10, the original version of Windows must be installed on the new hard drive and then upgraded again....