Windows 10 Free Upgrade is Still Available

[realJSOP]

A mix of Mint, Ubuntu (Gnome), and Lubuntu.

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

[theoldfool]

+2 for Mint (Mate)

If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.

[Cp Coder]

Quote:

When you resisted for so long!

I did not resist. I upgraded very soon after 10 became available. I posted this message for those who did resist and possibly regret it now.

[Cp Coder]

Thanks for posting. It may help others! :)

[Cp Coder]

Update issues with Windows 10: As far as I can remember the only issue I had with 10, is that it changes my default printer after updates. A minor annoyance. I have not had any major issues with 10 since I switched from Windows 7 and 8.

[jsc42]

Slightly off topic I have just rebuilt a PC using the downloadable 'raw' Windows 10 ISO image. The rebuild was because the old disc was corrupt (user's AppData was linked to itself so could never find the end of folder chains) and I couldn't find anything that could recover it. Somehow the Windows 10 ISO image was able to find the original OEM licence on the corrupt disk and activated the new install automatically.

[Cp Coder]

I believe that every Windows machine has a unique ID, that is not stored on the system disk. This ID gets registered with Microsoft the first time Windows 10 is activated. Subsequent rebuilds, including replacement of the disk, will not affect the activation status of Windows. I have always found that you can replace the system disk freely, and rebuild Windows, without losing your activation status.

[Clumpco]

A quick hint if you are still feeling recalcitrant. Make an image backup of your Windows 7 - (if you're running Windows 8 stop reading this and take up knitting). Follow the upgrade process. Don't bother signing up for a Microsoft Account if you don't have one. Run the Windows 10 for an hour or so Re-install your Windows 7 from the backup image. Your 'machine ID' is now known to Microsoft and you can do a clean install of Windows 10 from an ISO (or an in-place upgrade if you're daring) whenever you want. I have done this with several machines - no fuss, no serial requested.

[Cp Coder]

Makes sense. Thanks!

[User 10760187]

Try it it fail.

[Cp Coder]

Have you tried what Ravi suggested above?

[cwjinc]

Thanks. A warning though about that old laptop. There is no non-PAE version of Windows 10.

[Cp Coder]

Note that Windows 10 is not compatible with some older machines. I also have a laptop that refused to run Windows 10 from the days when it first came out.

[Fever905]

/me too

[Fever905]

Windows 7 forever!!! :) Some of our PCs in the lab are running XP just fine. But they're sandboxed, not on the interwebs net.

[mischasan]

Same here (Linux Mint). S-o-o-o straightforward. Windows 10 is MSFT's Project Hailstorm back with a vengeance. Where I live, freegeek.org refurbishes donated computers, and installs Linux. They make them affordable to a lot of people; notebooks for $100. And not-Win10 means good speed on a four-year-old PC.