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Ideas of the best license to activate
I'm building a new desktop. I have some licenses hanging around so I figured I'd at least try to see if I can activate one rather than buy a new win10 pro
One license is a win7 pro on an old dell laptop. That was upgraded to win10 last year but I reverted back when I couldn't get it updated past 1803. The win7 license was an upgrade from XP. But that machine is actually currently running on a full retail 8.1 that I moved there from another machine after deactivating. That 8.1 is probably going to my grandson soon.
Have another desktop running win7 pro that is a full retail also upgraded from XP.
I know there has been discussion on whether you can still upgrade win7/8 but I figure it's worth a shot before plunking down $200.
So would I be better off trying to activate a brand new build off a win7 pro that was originally an upgrade BUT has been used to activate win10. So microsoft knows about this one already and might view it just a an OK change in hardware.
Or deactivate the desktop and swap licenses and use the full retail win7 pro even though that one has not been activated for win10 previously.