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<blockquote data-quote="Pheasant Surprise" data-source="post: 1468196" data-attributes="member: 1103"><p>I've been trawling through this W10 upgrade stuff, and in order to get the "free" licence key from MS you have to upgrade from 7, 8 or 8.1 using that Get Windows 10 widget. The upgrade program is essential to get the free licence key for W10, no other way apparently other than buying a copy.</p><p></p><p>You can separately download the W10 ISO image (32 and 64 bit) as you say and install it, but unless you can get a licence key for it (freebie or bought) then it won't activate apparently.</p><p></p><p>The same sort of logic applies if you want to do a 'clean install' of W10 for free. First you have to use the upgrade program, then once upgraded you blow it all away and do a fresh clean install.....long winded but the only way if you really want a clean install rather than an upgrade over the top of W7 or 8. </p><p></p><p>Somehow MS licensing has worked out you've legitimately upgraded, so when you do the clean install on the same machine, it doesn't prompt for a license key again and activates fine.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pheasant Surprise, post: 1468196, member: 1103"] I've been trawling through this W10 upgrade stuff, and in order to get the "free" licence key from MS you have to upgrade from 7, 8 or 8.1 using that Get Windows 10 widget. The upgrade program is essential to get the free licence key for W10, no other way apparently other than buying a copy. You can separately download the W10 ISO image (32 and 64 bit) as you say and install it, but unless you can get a licence key for it (freebie or bought) then it won't activate apparently. The same sort of logic applies if you want to do a 'clean install' of W10 for free. First you have to use the upgrade program, then once upgraded you blow it all away and do a fresh clean install.....long winded but the only way if you really want a clean install rather than an upgrade over the top of W7 or 8. Somehow MS licensing has worked out you've legitimately upgraded, so when you do the clean install on the same machine, it doesn't prompt for a license key again and activates fine. [/QUOTE]
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