I bought w7 pro off of the microsoft website where it gave me and iso to.
Windows 7 upgrade to windows 10 product key not valid.
And after you do upgrade your pc gets a valid windows 10 key that will keep working even if microsoft stops allowing new upgrades in the future.
Regardless of this product activation remains a part of windows 10.
If you have windows 7 pcs in your business microsoft may not consider you compliant with the terms of its.
This can be your windows 7 or windows 8 retail or oem product key before upgrading.
Windows won t let me install says my product key is not valid.
This is the product key you want if you encounter product activation issues in windows 10.
Windows 10 would then report that key to microsoft s servers and windows 10 s activation servers would give your pc a digital entitlement now a digital license to continue using windows 10 for free just as.
Retrieve windows 7 key to proceed for windows 10 upgrade using this path you need to have your windows product key you must ve received with your purchase of windows 7.
Hi i wanted to do a clean install so i wiped my hard drive.
Activating windows 10 using a windows 7 product key.
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Activating windows 10 with a windows 7 product key still works so even if you didn t install windows 10 during the free upgrade promo you can still do that at no extra cost.
Note that we can t speak to the business licensing side of things here.
The most notable being that windows 10 is free for existing windows 7 8 8 1 users for the first year.
Now when i go and install w7 i get up to the last part of installation where it asks me for my product key i enter it but it says its not valid.
This allowed users to perform a clean install windows 10 and enter a valid windows 7 8 or 8 1 key during installation.
The original product key.