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| Thread ID: 141666 | 2016-02-02 07:46:00 | Bloody Microsoft! How to prevent me spending more money? | Danger (287) | Press F1 |
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| 1415316 | 2016-02-02 23:31:00 | ---it would be suicide for MS to do that. They seem to have survived all their other suicide attemps so far... :) |
fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1415317 | 2016-02-03 02:30:00 | Lawrence, Wainui, I don't believe you guys are disagreeing, just having a a bit of confusion over how things have been said. In any case, my attempt to put it in plainer english; the windows 10 upgrade is free until the cut off date If you take the free upgrade offer there will never be any charges If you do not take the free offer and later decide to upgrade it'll cost you (the point I believe Lawrence was trying to make) I think it's best to take the offer and go far enough to get it activated, then if you don't like it roll back to your previous OS. That way you own a legitimate copy of windows 10 for that hardware for free should you ever decide you want it. Of course if you love your current OS and can't be bothered with the hassle, just stick with it. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1415318 | 2016-02-03 03:40:00 | Here's a question... if I download/install Win10 onto an older spare Win7 to try it out, can I use the download on my main (Win8.1) PC, so as not to have to pay later, if you know what I mean? | Greg (193) | ||
| 1415319 | 2016-02-03 04:15:00 | I think it's best to take the offer and go far enough to get it activated, then if you don't like it roll back to your previous OS. That way you own a legitimate copy of windows 10 for that hardware for free should you ever decide you want it. Of course if you love your current OS and can't be bothered with the hassle, just stick with it. That's What I've done to one of the Office PC's. Since the latest versions of W10 accept previous keys I disconnected the main drive, threw in ( OK left it hanging out the case) :) installed W10 fresh it activated instantly. Just to check wiped its drive, put W10 back in again and it automatically picked up the hardware as being activated/Registered. Disconnected that drive reconnected W7 and away it went again. The hardware is now registered, so I can install W10 anytime I like, W7 still works (sometimes) as normal :rolleyes:. Its in need of a complete reinstall, but I wont be changing to W10 on that till after the end of the financial year or maybe starting of June. W10 is more stable as it goes on in time, so maybe by then it will be Ok. not going to do a Upgrade of W7 as its corrupted in a couple of places and cant be fixed, even a repair install didn't work. Then again may just build a New PC. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1415320 | 2016-02-03 09:23:00 | Here's a question... if I download/install Win10 onto an older spare Win7 to try it out, can I use the download on my main (Win8.1) PC, so as not to have to pay later, if you know what I mean? Not really, you need to install windows 10 on the hardware you want to have the licence for, it ties itself to the hardware once it decides there is a legitimate install (or key using wainui's method above) of 7/8.1 to upgrade. If you have a spare hdd do what Wainui detailed and get 10 activated on the 8.1 machine that way then put your existing drive back. One cool thing about the free upgrade, once activated you have no key to worry about and can reinstall/activate on the same hardware anytime without one. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1415321 | 2016-02-03 12:22:00 | Ah. Cheers for that. | Greg (193) | ||
| 1415322 | 2016-02-03 21:59:00 | My problem is a little different, I may have to actually buy W10 64 bit to install on the machine currently running W8.1 32 bit. I have the retail version of 8.1 which has both 32 and 64 bit versions in the package, but just one product key. I don't think it possible, but was wondering whether I could install W8.1 64 bit on a spare drive using the same key as for the 32 bit install and see if it would activate, if so then I could install W10 64 bit for free. However I think that once locked into 32 bit, the only way to go to 64 bit is to (sob sob) actually buy that version. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1415323 | 2016-02-03 22:03:00 | It should work Terry, my understanding which may be wrong was the upgrade inherits the same rights as the version you upgrade from. In any case installing 64 bit and upgrading will work, and I suspect a fresh install would still let you choose 32 or 64 bit. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1415324 | 2016-02-03 23:16:00 | I would have to try it, but I'm doubtful whether W8.1 64 bit could be installed and activated when the product key has already been used for the W8.1 32 bit version. Maybe I should check with MS. | Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1415325 | 2016-02-03 23:18:00 | A Win OEM/retail install key should work with either 32b or 64b (it does with win7,8 etc) . However, If Win is activated on a working PC, via retail CD, at your own risk would you try & install it again & activate again on a spare HD. |
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