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    win 10 upgrade from 7 retail

    so i have now got 10 but what about the licence for 7 that i still have.

    as im using 10 can i install 7 on another pc and activate it? not sure how that works tbh?

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    Re: win 10 upgrade from 7 retail

    AFAIK....... using the same key you can only have win 10 or win 7 and not both.
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    Re: win 10 upgrade from 7 retail

    Well... if your Win7 license has been upgraded to Win10 then it doesn't exist any more, does it?

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    Re: win 10 upgrade from 7 retail

    You don't have 2 licenses.

    You've upgraded your W7 to W10.

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    Re: win 10 upgrade from 7 retail

    As Guy says, you have effectively exchanged your win 7 licence for a win 10 licence.
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    Re: win 10 upgrade from 7 retail

    thanks for the info new os it is then ;(

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    Re: win 10 upgrade from 7 retail

    Quote Originally Posted by jetfire View Post
    thanks for the info new os it is then ;(
    Well, I think you can upgrade back to win7 within 31 days...
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    Re: win 10 upgrade from 7 retail

    You mentioned on another pc. If that's the case not sure why you'd be feeling hard done by?

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    Re: win 10 upgrade from 7 retail

    im not just if i stop using 10 can i go back to 7? as over the 31 days atm.

    took me 3 weeks to stop it crashing n freezing and get the updates to work ok.

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    Re: win 10 upgrade from 7 retail

    There hasn't been official word from MS, but your Win 7 key will not allow you to activate Win 7 if you were to install it a month after taking up the Win 10 upgrade offer, calling up MS's activation line may help, but again, there are no solid answers.

    It gets worse unfortunately, if you make a significant change to your hardware, even swapping the motherboard like-for-like will invalidate the current Win 10 activation. You might be able to re-install Win 7 as above and then upgrade back to Win 10 before the in-place upgrade offer expires, after that you're stuffed, at best you might be able to install and activate Win 7 as mentioned previously.

    It's exactly this reason why I will not upgrade any of my current Windows 7 or 8 machines to Windows 10. Even my laptops which have OEM Win 7/8 licences, because if a major part fails and is replaced and then I have to re-install Win 10, I don't know where that will leave me.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DDY View Post
    It's exactly this reason why I will not upgrade any of my current Windows 7 or 8 machines to Windows 10. Even my laptops which have OEM Win 7/8 licences, because if a major part fails and is replaced and then I have to re-install Win 10, I don't know where that will leave me.
    The same place it leaves you with your existing Win7 and Win8 machines? Replacement for hardware failure is allowed under the OEM license, though may require a telephone activation.

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    Re: win 10 upgrade from 7 retail

    Quote Originally Posted by Splash View Post
    The same place it leaves you with your existing Win7 and Win8 machines? Replacement for hardware failure is allowed under the OEM license, though may require a telephone activation.
    Has no-one here been through this yet? I have had two recent motherboard failures, but both machines still on Win 7 OEM and just activated over the internet.

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    Re: win 10 upgrade from 7 retail

    Quote Originally Posted by Splash View Post
    The same place it leaves you with your existing Win7 and Win8 machines? Replacement for hardware failure is allowed under the OEM license, though may require a telephone activation.
    I do the telephone thing all the time for Win7 and 8. But for Win 10 after significant hardware failure and the free upgrade offer expires? What media do I use to re-install and what key do I punch in?

    Quote Originally Posted by DanceswithUnix View Post
    Has no-one here been through this yet? I have had two recent motherboard failures, but both machines still on Win 7 OEM and just activated over the internet.
    I haven't read anyone who's done it with Win 10, but I've done it countless times on previous versions of Windows. An OEM key allows a limited number of activations after hardware changes and even after exceeding that limit associated with that key, one may still activate over the phone.

    What I don't know is how I would even start the Win 10 activation process without a key? Windows 10 is supposed re-activate if it recognises known hardware ID, but what if it changes because the motherboard or other hardware has been replaced?
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    Re: win 10 upgrade from 7 retail

    Quote Originally Posted by DDY View Post
    I do the telephone thing all the time for Win7 and 8. But for Win 10 after significant hardware failure and the free upgrade offer expires? What media do I use to re-install and what key do I punch in?
    The free upgrade remains in place, the problem is the activation at the moment, since you need to come from a windows 7 install in order to general a hardware specific free win 10 license. There is a new version of Win 10 in the works which doesn't require this step, but until that's released as the stable version it's a bit of a problem.

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    Re: win 10 upgrade from 7 retail

    A friend's laptop has been horribly unstable on Windows 10 so I'm just about to try rolling it back to 7. It's been well over a month since I 'upgraded' so if I go ahead with it I'll let you know how I get on. I'll be sure to make a disk image of the Win10 install though, just in case...

    But yeah, I'm holding off on Win10 until the last minute for my own systems. It really doesn't seem to offer me anything over 7 and from friends' experience it just seems far less stable overall vs 7.

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    Re: win 10 upgrade from 7 retail

    Quote Originally Posted by kalniel View Post
    The free upgrade remains in place, the problem is the activation at the moment, since you need to come from a windows 7 install in order to general a hardware specific free win 10 license. There is a new version of Win 10 in the works which doesn't require this step, but until that's released as the stable version it's a bit of a problem.
    Interesting, would the new version allow a clean (re)installation on new hardware? How does it activate?

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