11-06-2020, 08:28 PM
(11-06-2020, 06:23 PM)Mashiro Wrote: I have a small note for you regard Windows license keys and the OS architecture version / language versions of Windows: You can activate a 32 Bit and a 64 Bit version of Windows with the very same license key. Furthermore you can activate any language version of Windows of the same edition with the same license key. Same edition only! A Windows 10 Home key cannot activate Windows 10 Home China nor Pro or higher versions.Aha. This is great news. And what I was looking for. thanks for this.
(11-06-2020, 06:23 PM)Mashiro Wrote: Of course it is highly unnecessary and absolutely not ideal to install a 32 Bit Windows version on a computer with 8 GB of RAM. They probably didn't even enable PAE mode to still be able to make use of the full 8 GB of RAM?!?! I guess they didn't.No they didn't. All I noted was the Microsoft Windows License Key on top of the Computer Tower - it looked legit and is legit - I was dumb however not to have inspected it closer as I may then have noticed it was a Home Version. If one checks the specs of Dell Optiplex 9020 i7 Pentium, I haven't ever seen a Home version Windows advertised with it always Windows 7 Professional which at the time was 65-bit vs 32-bit Home Version. I didn't even think it could be possible that they would have installed Windows Home version. I naturally assumed, however also confirmed that that would be the Windows that would be loaded. And then it was not.
(11-06-2020, 06:23 PM)Mashiro Wrote: Regarding the license used when performing a Windows 7 to Windows 10 upgrade: the upgrade process takes the license that is currently installed on the current (as in previous = Windows 7) Windows version. So you installed Windows 7 Pro on the system some years ago means you get Windows 10 Pro. You can see the upgrade path here. In my humble opinion a clean reinstallation is better. Not sure if the Windows 10 setup will take a Windows 7 license straight from the get go. You might have to perform a upgrade on that license first and after that do the reinstallation. You however always try it but create a backup before (just in case).That is great news indeed. I was thinking along the same lines too. Like to do the upgrade from Windows 7 with data and some apps (I'm planning to delete all of the apps that may logically interfere, or not make the grade). And once I'm comfortable to do a reset of Windows 10 with deleting all of the data and apps - like a clean install in reverse. I've seen a tutorial how one could do this. Windows 10 then warns the user that all restore points will also be deleted and there won't be a possibility to move back to previous software. I.e. one wouldn't be able to downgrade from Windows 10 to an earlier Windows. So when one does it one should be reasonably sure that one will never be able to move back again. Microsoft is looking for commitment.
(11-06-2020, 06:23 PM)Mashiro Wrote: Edit: Forgot to mention that in the past it used to be so that you could still downgrade with your license to Windows 7 if you didn't like Windows 10. If you didn't do that the license key would be turned into a Windows 10 key forever and couldn't be used with Windows 7 anymore. Not sure how it is now.That is correct. I came across that in my research too. If you want to change back before 30 days are up, then the previous Windows will come up as an option if one goes the reset recovery route. This won't happen with a clean install upgrade though. After 30 days are up, or if the upgrade had been with a clean install, it is still possible but with a clean install of Windows 7 and then using the old Windows 7 key to activate it.
https://www.howtogeek.com/220723/how-to-...-7-or-8.1/
OK. So here is also something interesting. I just checked on my ThinkPad Laptop that was upgraded with my Windows 7 Professional License. However when I checked to see what the license number of the current Windows 10 Professional OS on my laptop is, it was a completely difference license number. So that is probably what they mean with one getting a digital license from Microsoft during the upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10. I guess however that license is also just intended on an OEM basis, for the computer that was upgraded with the Windows 7 OEM License.