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The other option I'm considering; my current PC has Win 10. Would I be able to decomission it and use it's key on the new machine? It's never going to be used again, once the new system is finished.
I'm perfectly willing to pay for it, but only if there isn't a free option. A Windows install USB costs nearly $200 here.
I think you're looking for that ^.
There is no FREE version but there is an un activated version.
Like I said there is no free version.
Yes enterprise offers a 90 day trial and when that 90 days expires it does not render the os useless you can continue to use it as you wish minus a few cosmetic differences.
You can still upgrade for free if you have a Windows key already. I just upgraded both my laptops yesterday. All you have to do is say you use assistive technology and it's still free.
So, OP, buy a Windows 7 disc from Amazon. Get the ones that say for refurbished computers. Then upgrade to Windows 10 for free. This method is 100 percent legal and it's really cheap to do.
Would not reccomend that. I tried it. Bought windows 7 from amazon. Received a disk in a white envelope with activation key sticker on the outside. And ofc the activation key didn't work... Had to return it, thankfully amazon sent a courier to pick it back up from my home so i didn't get burned at all. Just wasted some time.
I imagine most of the genuine copies of windows 7 are long gone, and only the fake ones remain. Not worth risking.
Sounds like an OEM disk, OEM versions of Windows were not applicable for the upgrade. If you'd have bought a legit retail disk it would have come in a big white and blue box.
You can still upgrade from 7 or 8.1, Just switch on assistive technologies and go here:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/accessibility/windows10upgrade
Not sure if it was OEM or not, and i don't think it even matters because i do have another pc that came with windows 7 OEM and it upgraded to windows 10 just fine. The problem was that i could not even activate this one that i brought from amazon, because it was probably used. Most of them are either fake or used.
OEM has nothing to do with it I had 10 towers/laptops with oem win 7 and all upgraded to win 10 64 during the free upgrade period.
I see no reason for buying an oem win 7 disk now to ♥♥♥♥ around upgrading to assistive free win 10 when you can just buy win 10 for about the same price.
Digital Entitlement: Would tie your previous Operating Systems license key to the activitation server of Win 10... so it acts like a Win 10 license key. Depending on your previous Operating System, it will be the related version (Pro > Pro, etc).
Previously, it was a force of installing the previous OS, patching GBs worth of updates and latest service packs, then upgrading to Win 10 over the top - just to get that digital entitlement.
The so-called free one now, is just not activating Win 10 at all. It will become nagware, but still allow you to use it. Anything else to bypass this, ends up a risk to core system.
I would personally suggest to just go buy a copy of Win 10 from the offical website. Then you at least know it's genuine, not scam/stolen/used or rootkitted (spyware trojan builtin, which would be extremely hard to detect or remove as it's part of the OS), etc. Plus if your Operating System ever has issues, you can have a disk to repair or reinstall cleanly, even years down the track.
the most dangerous thing is to format the pc, better then pay for things that can be free with some "knowledge"
You are assuming the "free" thing to be illegally obtained and not injected with it's own malicious code. The most dangerous thing is not knowing.
For example:
A lot of those license keys that are sold on Amazon are shared between 3-4 people, it might even work, but then start to deactivate the other buyers or even yourself.
Some of the tricks to bypass the activition with file modifications come injected with it's own rootkit trojan. You compromise the security of your core system and for what? Saving a few bulks, when they spy on your entire documentions, logins, bank, etc.
Plus viruses these days aren't destructive, rather attempt to remain stealth and just monitor activity. When injected into your core system, even a virus scanner won't remove it (if even actually detected). Quite a number of illegal infected Operating Systems are even used in BotNETs as zombie PCs for hackers to bounce attacks off, even towards government servers or a DDOS attack, etc. Well actually these days, they tend to use unsecured security cameras and various other devices, but it use to be mostly injected OS.
The point I'm making is if you are unsure, best be safe.
If you are really cheap, then just use Win 10 unactivated with a few limitations (such as no personalization) and nagware. At least don't modify the files or get scammed.