WITH THE FREE UPGRADE OFFER THERE IS NO NEED TO RECORD YOUR NEW WINDOWS 10 KEY. If you wish to keep a record of your old Windows 7/8 key before the upgrade you can use a tool like Nirsoft's ProduKey ( ) or The Ultimate PID Checker ( ). Your PC will activate online automatically so long as the same edition of Windows 10 was successfully activated on this PC by using the free Windows 10 upgrade offer. Note If you upgraded to Windows 10 on this PC by taking advantage of the free upgrade offer and successfully activated Windows 10 on this PC in the past, you won't have a Windows 10 product key, and you can skip the product key page by selecting the Skip button. Note: A product key is not needed if you're already activated via an upgraded installation. Make sure to choose the correct language, architecture (x86 or 圆4) and edition of Windows that applies to you. This method will still let you choose to keep your existing files/programs and will activate fine through the free upgrade offer. Then from the USB drive or DVD/Mounted ISO run the setup.exe from the media's root folder. If you're having problems getting the upgrade process started you can use the Media Creation tool linked above and have it create either a USB or ISO for you.
The activation status will be shown towards the bottom.Īfterwards if you wish to do a clean install via a bootable USB or DVD drive you can do it with the downloads provided from the following link : You can check your activation status in Windows 10 by going to Control Panel->System applet. You don't get your free valid Windows 10 activation until you've done an upgrade of an existing Windows 7 or 8.1 installation.
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