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Hi, my daughter bought a laptop with windows 8,1 on it. She was told that she could upgrade it to windows 10 at the shop. So, she is at home the weekend and want to install it. But when she click the install windows 10 icon, she gets a message" windows will contact her". Is this the way, or can she just click somewhere to start installing windows 10. It is a rather new laptop with legal windows 8.1 on it.

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Yeah you have to wait a while before the update comes your way.

Just keep checking for updates and you ill eventually get the upgrade to Win10.
 
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will you get a email, or some horrible microsoft thing on your desktop?
 
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Either some horrible thing on your desktop or windows update will display an update of 2,990MB or something to that effect.
 
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Robertvv said:
Hi, my daughter bought a laptop with windows 8,1 on it. She was told that she could upgrade it to windows 10 at the shop. So, she is at home the weekend and want to install it. But when she click the install windows 10 icon, she gets a message" windows will contact her". Is this the way, or can she just click somewhere to start installing windows 10. It is a rather new laptop with legal windows 8.1 on it.

Thank you
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Please try this.

Force Win 10 Update

If it fails:

Regedit.exe

"Locate the registry key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\OSUpgrade]

It should exist, but if not, create it.

Create a new DWORD (32-bit) Value with Name = "AllowOSUpgrade” (without the quotes), and set the Value = 0x00000001.

Once the registry key is modified, close and reopen the desktop Control Panel, go to Windows Update and check for updates. You should now be able to click the Get Started button to upgrade to Windows 10. Note: Windows 8.1 users must go to the desktop Control Panel, and not the modern Windows Update UI.”
 
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Yes and?
You need to first upgrade via online to qualify for free upgrade.
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Incorrect, i also upgraded via the iso, i had not pre registered for the upgrade in any way what-so-ever. and mine is running fine activated.
 
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Then the activation process has been changed recently.
Also this would potentially also just work with the setup from the ISO being run within your current windows for first install.
 
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When you upgrade with the ISO (without reserving or anything) it registers your Win 7/8/8.1 key as upgraded an saves some hardware info on MS servers. After that you can clean install Win 10 from the ISO or the old version of Windows and it will activate. When Win 10 asks for a key, you can skip it and it will still activate.

I have done this on about 6 or 7 pc's and it works. Just download the ISO and upgrade once and there after you can install which one you want, when you want and how you want and it activates, without having to reserve anything. The only thing you actually reserve is the physical download (for load balancing on MS servers I guess)
 
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werfie said:
When you upgrade with the ISO (without reserving or anything) it registers your Win 7/8/8.1 key as upgraded an saves some hardware info on MS servers. After that you can clean install Win 10 from the ISO or the old version of Windows and it will activate. When Win 10 asks for a key, you can skip it and it will still activate.

I have done this on about 6 or 7 pc's and it works. Just download the ISO and upgrade once and there after you can install which one you want, when you want and how you want and it activates, without having to reserve anything. The only thing you actually reserve is the physical download (for load balancing on MS servers I guess)
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Correct, done it with lappie and desktop. ISO is the best route to go.
 
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just make sure that when using the iso, you have downloaded the exact same architecture, As Necuno mentioned already, if you have 32bit and try upgrading it to 64 bit win10 it won't work as a free upgrade.
 
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werfie said:
When you upgrade with the ISO (without reserving or anything) it registers your Win 7/8/8.1 key as upgraded an saves some hardware info on MS servers. After that you can clean install Win 10 from the ISO or the old version of Windows and it will activate. When Win 10 asks for a key, you can skip it and it will still activate.

I have done this on about 6 or 7 pc's and it works. Just download the ISO and upgrade once and there after you can install which one you want, when you want and how you want and it activates, without having to reserve anything. The only thing you actually reserve is the physical download (for load balancing on MS servers I guess)
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i'm yet to try a fresh install, note i say fresh install not clean install built into win 10, i want to format the drive properly and install fresh from iso, so my question is does the re-activation require sign into Microsoft account? i skipped that step so i haven't got an account..
 
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i'm yet to try a fresh install, note i say fresh install not clean install built into win 10, i want to format the drive properly and install fresh from iso, so my question is does the re-activation require sign into Microsoft account? i skipped that step so i haven't got an account..
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No sign in required. I have done all of the ones I did as upgrade first and then format and fresh install. I know in win 8 it kinda forced you to sign in with your MS account at some stage and with a whole lot of clicks etc you could skip it. Solution was to unplug internet during setup. You just have to be connected to the internet afterwards for it to activate. No sign in required.
 
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No sign in required. I have done all of the ones I did as upgrade first and then format and fresh install. I know in win 8 it kinda forced you to sign in with your MS account at some stage and with a whole lot of clicks etc you could skip it. Solution was to unplug internet during setup. You just have to be connected to the internet afterwards for it to activate. No sign in required.
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Awesome, I'll do it tomorrow, hate feeling like it's not as clean as it could be.
 
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Zuner said:
Awesome, I'll do it tomorrow, hate feeling like it's not as clean as it could be.
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Lol. Me too. And the clean 10 takes up less Hdd space than clean Windows 8.1 btw. Good luck!!
 
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