You need to update to Windows 10 before the end of July or you will no longer qualify for the free update and will need to pay if you decide to update to Windows 10 in future.
I went and took the plunge;
1) I upgraded to win 10 and checked to make sure it was activated.
2) I used the win 10 recovery feature to go back to win 7, worked great.
3) couple hrs later, I decided to answer my own post and went to the MS site and installed win 10 again, it installed and the MS servers activated it during install.........that works folks.
Bottom line, once win 10 is installed and activated on the Microsoft servers, the activation process is there for a long time... maybe forever
Hi,
During the free upgrade offer it's not surprising win-10 will reactivate
It's after the free offer expires and you're using win-7 and want to go back to win-10 is where win-10 might not auto reactivate.
Still too early to tell seeing as the free offer is still alive.
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Win-7-Pro64bit 7-H-Prem-64bit
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i7-5930K 2nd i9-9940x both water blocked VRM's too
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I think that once it's activated, it's activated forever. Let's say someone upgraded to Win 10 when it first became available and used it for an entire year. On Aug 1st, 2016 (just past the free upgrade period) they suffer a hard disk crash (with no backup). They will need to do a clean install and Win 10 will need to reactivate then.
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PC/Desktop
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Home Built desktop, Dell G15 5511 Gaming laptop,MS Surface Pro 7 tablet
OS
W10 Pro desktop, W11 laptop, W11 Pro tablet (all 64-bit)
CPU
3.7Ghz 8700K i7, i7-11800H, i7-1065G7
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ASUS TUF Z370-Pro Gaming in desktop
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16G desktop, 16G laptop, 4G tablet
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AMD Radeon RX580, RTX 3060, Intel Iris Plus
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High Definition Audio (Built-in to mobo)
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Samsung U32J59 32" (2x), 15.6", 12"
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3840x2160, 3840x2160, 1920x1080, 2160x1440
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500G SSD for OS; 2T, 10T & 15T HDDs for Data on Desktop, 1TB SSD laptop, 128G SSD tablet.
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Corsair CX 750M
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Antec 100
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CM 212+
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IBM Model M - used continuously since 1986
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Microsoft Pro IntelliMouse
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400M down 8M up
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Windows Defender
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Built my first computer (8Mhz 8088cpu, 640K RAM, 20MB HDD, 2 360K floppy drives) in 1985 and have been building them for myself, relatives and friends ever since.
