My friend has Windows 7 Home Premium. Which version of Windows 10 will it be eligible to upgrade to?  I have a volume license for Windows 7 Professional, should I update computers with Windows 7 Home to Windows 7 Pro before doing the upgrade to Windows 10?  Or will all the updating computers get the same "free version" of Windows 10?  I have googled, but nothing I've read is specifically identifying the version of Windows 10 I will get when I update.  Does anyone here know more?
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When the free Windows 10 upgrade comes out, will you get the Pro version or Home version if you have Windows 8.1 Pro or Windows 7 Professional or Ultimate?
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After a fresh Windows install – XP or 7 – how can I "force" Windows updates?   I don't want to have "old" Windows updates after a week, so could it be done in "one step"? Are there any "magical" commands that force Windows to check for updates, and if there are any, install them?
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Please let me know how to disable Windows 10 Home in S Mode?  Already I followed following steps: Microsoft Store App > In the app, search for "switch out of s mode"  On the Switch out of S mode, selected Get button but it says unable to upgrade Try again.  Let me know, how to disable Windows 10 Home in S Mode?  Regards John
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I am trying to upgrade my Win7 system to Windows 10 (because I am, apparently, masochistic). It's not working, locking up at about 30 to 35%, requiring me to reset, which then backs out the upgrade.  The whole process takes about three to four hours. A large part of this is having to download 3.5GB of upgrade every time, because Microsoft's tool doesn't cache the install files.  The tool has an option to create a bootable USB stick, which I can use to do an install. This should be way faster.  However, Microsoft seem really firm that if I want to get my free upgrade, I need to pick to 'Upgrade this PC' option from the upgrade tool. This seems peculiar. Can anyone confirm (i.e. who actually knows from first hand knowledge) whether upgrading from a USB stick actually works?
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The Windows 10 October 2018 update (v1809) rollout got cancelled multiple times, however you can still get the ISO files of it. Is it somehow possible to update using the ISO files (without losing files) or to enforce an update over windows update?  I don't want to do a clean install because it would take me multiple days on the machine I want to upgrade, however I need to upgrade it because of some bugs fixed in the latest version.
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Possible Duplicate:          I was thinking of buying Windows 7 Ultimate to be installed on an old computer. In due time, I will be giving this old computer away.  The question is:   Will I have trouble transferring the Windows 7 Ultimate license to another PC? If yes, do I need to watch out for any issues?  What exactly is Microsoft's stance/policies towards license transfers?  How many times can I transfer before it becomes illegal?
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I plan on buying Windows 7 Ultimate Edition to run on an old Pentium 4. I also want to run Windows 7 virtual machines inside Windows 7. My question is two fold:   Do I need a license for each Virtual Machine? Does the answer change if I use a third party virtualization platform (e.g. , , , etc) as opposed to ?
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Support of Windows XP . There is a lot of fuss and fear around this and many  on what you should do but I haven't found a clear explanation: What does the end of support actually mean?   There won't be any new updates. This is the only thing which is clear. Will we be able to get the old updates?  weakly suggests that yes, but I haven't found any more confirmation of that. Will we be able to install Windows XP on new machines? There was some procedure of confirming the key over the network (registering windows), so will this work as before? Are there any other direct changes for users of Windows XP?     Note: I am not asking on security consequences of the above, and have my own opinion on updates of this product, so please be so kind and skip the big warnings and disclaimers how it's impossible to use XP without updates. There have been a lot of scaring people and no actual explanation of what actually is going on - this question is meant to fill in the gap.
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Recently as per this       For individuals who have chosen to receive automatic updates through   Windows Update, we help upgradable devices get ready for Windows 10 by   downloading the files they’ll need if they decide to upgrade.   but Microsoft seems to be downloading hidden update in windows 7 :  according to this  :     An INQUIRER reader pointed out to us that, despite not having   'reserved' a copy of Windows 10, he had found that the ~BT folder,   which has been the home of images of the new operating system since   before rollout began, had appeared on his system. He had no plans to   upgrade and had not put in a reservation request.   As per the above two articles there was hidden update for windows 10 with respective to windows 7 and 8 machines ,whats the effective way to stop this hidden update?  right now i cant disable windows update since i wish to patch my system with latest updates,  i checked the question which was marked as possible  :     inorder to clarify how it differs it talks about the cancelled update   ,but this was latest issue which was araised two days before,i didnt   dig much about that and believe both were different ,apart from that   it was about after the cancellation of update a   nd this one was about preventing such an update from downloading to my pc  any suggestions to avoid this update?
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I cancelled the Microsoft Windows 10 Reservation and uninstalled KB3035583, but Windows 10 is still trying to install.   After I uninstalled KB3035583 and restarted my laptop as instructed, I could not find KB3035583 to hide it.   Now Windows 10 is sitting in my Windows Update saying that it will install when I restart my computer.
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I have a computer which is working fine after a windows re-install.  However, I did not install any drivers at all, they seem to have been installed via Windows Update.  Back then, I remember I had to download the latest drivers from the motherboard manufacturer, video-card manufacturer, etc.  Is this still valid?  Should I download the latest drivers from the manufacturers, or are the drivers available via Windows update enough?  I am running Windows 8.1.
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After updating to Windows 7 SP1 I updated with every new update that came out, but there were problems with the last two:    UPDATE: In the updates history I have found a lot of updates failed:    What can be done? Can I manually update?  P.S. I was offered a fix for this: Windows6.1-KB947821-v12-x64. Should I install?
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Windows 8.1 is out, and I would like to know if it is possible to share the Windows 8.1 download upgrade between different computers so that I don't have to download it over and over again?  This might be helpful for people who are on a metered connection. Store is downloading 3.42&nbsp;GB of data so it must be stored somewhere. Is there a way I can copy it to my other computers and start the setup so that I don't have to download it over and over again on each computer I own?
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I'm currently multi-booting Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu.  Next Wednesday, I plan to upgrade Windows to version 10, but before I do that I'd like to replace Ubuntu with Arch Linux.  Is there any point in getting Arch before I upgrade Windows or will Windows 10 simply disregard it and overwrite?  Basically, I just need to know if there is anyone out there that already has experience with installing Windows 10 and if so, does it thoroughly respect existing partitions and only modify the older version of Windows?  Maybe the only thing Win will break is Grub? In which case I could just sudo update-grub?
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I have bought a windows 10 pro license for my laptop that I no longer need and wanted to transfer to my desktop. I wouldn't like to buy a new license for my desktop since I won't use laptop anymore....  is this doable under microsoft license?   I tried to search this for quite a while but couldn't figure out. I sent e-mail to microsoft support but got some stupid generic help talking about subject that I didn't even asked...  please help
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Our company Wants to buy 30 Windows 7 Professional OEM licenses. Somebody gave us some packages like this:     How can I be sure if this Windows 7 Professional package is original? How many users can use this Windows? He gave us for 30 clients but what happens if we install this package for more than that? How can I find the number of users that can be installed with this? How can I check the product key before installing Windows?
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upgraded from win 7 to win 10 a few months ago. Just bought a new ssd. How do I maintain my license for windows 10? Install normally and use the serial number I currently have?