The end of Windows 7

fair enough, I'd heard of palemoon, but not mypal

Given how few people ever ran XP 64bit, I'd say you're likely to want the x86 version.

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Andy Burns
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How do you do that? I also want to upgrade Win7->10 as a clean install on a new SSD.

How does the "allowed to upgrade for free" work?

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JoeJoe

According to this

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"a [win

10] license is required".
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JoeJoe

Didn't do them as clean installs, cloned HD->SSD (reducing partition size if required) removed HD and stuck on shelf, then perform a win10 upgrade install in-place over win7, using ISO or USB stick generated by the Microsoft media creation tool. Later put the HD back in and reformat as D: drive.

It's just down to Microsoft not really checking, so you get away with it, these were all machines with "good" win7 pro licences to start with.

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Andy Burns

theoretically correct, in practice never known a machine that starts with a valid Win7 licence to need to buy a win10 licence, no guarantee of course.

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Andy Burns

Thanks, worth a shot as all my machines have legit Win 7 licences.

Is there a downside to an upgrade, rather than a clean install?

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JoeJoe

Worth giving linux mint a spin then

You can clone your current machines W7 and run it as a virtual machine if you want to keep an archive, just don't go online with it (although I do with my old XP as I keep an old email client which I use to backup my gmail account)

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AJH

I have just this moment shut down my Windows 7 desktop for the last time.

Windows 10 installation begins once the new disks are installed in 10 minutes' time.

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Bob Eager

You'll probably notice quite an improvement in disk and graphics performance over W7 if you stay with the same kind of disk technology

I was going to buy a new PC rather than update around this time but I was forced to update to W10 early last summer as there was some MS software I had to use that didn't support Win7. So a few bob spent on a

1TB SSD and 16GB of RAM and this 7 year old i7 flies again and no need for a new PC now.
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mm0fmf

I'm a user rather than a geek! My initial thinking is to stick with W7 and pay for some better protection.

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Tim Lamb

In my case because my pc ?just works? and does what I want (which isn?t much). Also, last time I updated it to W10 it turned my PC into a non-working ornament. Once bitten...

Tim

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Tim+

Me too but I have used linux probably since we last met a couple of decades ago.

The modern renditions are just like windows, loading new software can be a pain but once you've done one...

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AJH

I don't use it often enough to notice. It's there because I work with various other people, mainly volunteering on various things (food bank, guest lectures, Barefoot Computing).

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Bob Eager

Wasn't there a get around anyway after the free update period ended - stating that you needed to use assistive technologies?

SteveW

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Steve Walker

Once it has upgraded, it should licence itself (assuming that that still works). From then on, you can wipe it and install from scratch and as it has already recorded the machine as licenced on the MS servers, it'll re-activate automatically.

SteveW

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Steve Walker

A few weeks ago I used the media creation tool to upgrade three computers all running legit versions of Win7, two were 64 bit, the other, 32 bit.

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Did them one at a time; it didn't ask me for any Win product keys; needed a steady Internet connection; needed to keep an eye on progress in case a manual re-boot required; the process too several hours (~6 IIRC) for each computer; it knew whether 32 or 64 bit required; the final result didn't look too different from my original Win7 setup. After a little tidying up, everything still seems to work as it used to. Regular updates coming in as normal. Didn't cost me a penny. Well pleased.

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Chris Hogg

Still not done it myself (only the original in-situ upgrade and the manual / fresh one) hence why I was checking the way I believe you described a while back was still working.

That said, whilst we have several W7 installs here, I can't think of one I'd want to try / do it on (because the users are happy as they are and I don't want *any* aggravation because of something that might not work or is now done even slightly differently. ;-(

Cheers, T i m

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T i m

Outlook express has not worked since win 7 (at least not without manually installing the missing DLLs it requires)

They do have a paid for version of outlook... (in fact all versions of outlook are paid for). Outlook 2007 or higher works with all versions of windows from the last decade or more.

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John Rumm

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That will download Windows10Upgrade9252.exe

MD5 Hash: AE21A2989E1EF2EABA2F35EB21DF7EF5

That will update a valid Win7 installation to Win10. Once 10 is installed and verified it will keeps a digital licence on its servers for your specific hardware.

If you want a clean install just install from a Win10 ISO after that and it should be automatically licensed.

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Pent

But it doesn't do usenet.

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Andy Burns

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