Just to be sure, I upgraded and restored my backup I can upgrade free


  1. Max Pen
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    Just to be sure, I upgraded and restored my backup I can upgrade free


    I upgraded to windows 10 and went back to windows 7 so now I can upgrade to windows 10 at any time for free right?
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  3. Brink
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    Hello Matt, :)

    If the Windows 7 was activated when you upgrade to Windows 10, then yes. A digital entitlement would have been created on Microsoft's activation server for that specific PC to activate Windows 10 with in the future.

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