Around 1 month ago, I upgraded a Win 7 system to Win 10. I purchased a new Win 10, but, I never was asked for the Win 10 product key. The upgrade was performed by running the installer from a running Win 7 rather than booting from the installation media.
On 2020-01-09 04:00, Mick wrote: > On Wednesday, 8 January 2020 16:42:14 GMT Wols Lists wrote: >> On 08/01/20 09:26, Mick wrote: >>> The OS Product Key for a Win 7 will not work on a Win 10, unless the free >>> upgrade option had been performed before July 2016. At least it has not >>> worked here ... You'll need a Product Key, Digital License, or a >>> Microsoft >>> Account which has been linked to an activated Windows 10 Digital License. >> >> I don't know what the date MS announced was, but this tactic certainly >> worked after that - I did it myself. The key statement there is "NEVER >> been used". If MS recognises the key, it will fail. > > This is interesting! By a Win7 key which has "never been used" do you mean > not even used for activating the Win7 OS? Or never been used to upgrade Win7 > to Win10? > > >> (I'm actually going to have a crack at it myself again, I've just >> acquired a Win7 laptop - nice spec - that's pretty much unaltered >> original so I'm guessing it's never been re-installed and the key used.) >> >> Cheers, >> Wol > > Please let us know how this goes. I have Win7 & Win8.1 installations on > various laptops and these were not upgraded to Win10 before the expiry > deadline of Jul 2016 and could potentially use them on VMs for testing. > -- John R. Shannon j...@johnrshannon.com
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