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